Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Part two

TOM- It was good to have James up here for the weekend. These are some of the drawing I did of him while he was drawing the two sketches from his last post. The sun was strong in that first one, and i think we both had some pretty weird expressions on as we were drawing. More sketch book stuff to come...

Friday, August 3, 2007

Geisha



TOM- In keeping with adding more of a design element to my work, I'm trying to push myself in terms of composition, and not always having to use perspective or alot of people in the scene to make a drawing interesting. In doing that, this to me feels more like a logo or tattoo design.
I wish i could say i just thought of this and put it down on paper, but it wasn't really like that. Like anything else, i have a rough idea, then start scribbling, working, then reworking until it starts to look ok. This is usually done on typing paper and gets pretty messy. I wanted a real clean look to my inks, a little more controlled. With this being simple, i didn't want to add any unnecessary lines to confuse it. The final step was coloring in photoshop . My recent approach to that is to limit my colors and approach it more like a silkscreen, which this might become soon.