anyway. in regards to this sketchbook page, it started out as the central image and sort of morphed into a makeshift comic book page, minus dialogue of which there'd be a single line in the bottom panel (see detail), 'iain, are you awake?'
so again, we're dealing with a certain amount of autobiography. . .
lots of shading on this page, so it's hard to capture in any subtlety, but i'm happy with this, and it's something that i want to take a bit further. . . .
I love her expression in the first one. I also really like the idea of this "Book of Emma" becoming a kind of keepsake or journal for you - how fun will that be? To look back at it over time?
ReplyDeleteThe study is also great, even if you say the final product has changed - it's very atmospheric, with the shapes in the background. Makes me think of a drizzly city skyline.
I love these!
ReplyDeleteCan I say that I really like your more stylised pictures? I like all your work but I *really* like the looser almost cartoony stuff. :)
The storyline from this "Comic" looks familiar! ;)
Wait- "Canary Mask"?! :O :D
ReplyDeletebron, i'm loving this sketchbook. the funny thing about it is that i never know what i'm going to do in it next - though the idea of some form of comic book seems kind of appealing at the moment i don't want that to take over what is at the moment a very loose, unplanned collection of drawings, so. . .. maybe i'll start a second sketchbook :P
ReplyDeletethe study and the concept picture for 'ode #2' were both done on random bits of cardboard which i think are creating some nice textures with the washes of ink and / or acrylic i'm doing as a base. . .
emm: i like the stylised stuff too, it's definitely more fun to do, but i think i'm far too much of a perfectionist to just STICK to doing that as opposed to the more 'realistic' stuff. . . and yes, canary mask :)
Will you make me that mask? Pretty please? :D
ReplyDeleteMake it soon, Iain. After that bell rings it's no more papier mache for the whole summer! :P
ReplyDeleteLOVE these!!! You do like painting Emma in her jammies don't you? :P
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