The page a day thing hasn't really been working so far, partly because I'm so lazy, but this one's finally done. And it only took about a week! What really shows up how slow/inefficient/distractable I am is that it was only the borders I was working on: I'm a sucker for cannibalising old sketchbooks and sticking drawings into new books, so I extracted and brought back some older work from the UK. The biro drawings are from a small sketchbook I had over a year ago, but this time I wanted to try and integrate them properly so I can combine hold and new work and have it all in one place. That's the plan anyway.
The kid was an idea for a comic book character but he ended up looking too much like a short-sighted version of Micah from Heroes. It is admittedly a bit perverse to have him surrounded by scantily clad women but that is apparently what I have been into doodling recently. The new drawings were done fairly quickly, but I like how they turned out. You can kind of tell I got a bit bored in the bottom left-hand corner though. And excited by the forgotten Copic black multiliner I found lying around.
HB pencil, 0.4 black fineliner, black brush tip, Copic markers
Below is a re-post, originally included in my first image entry - another sketchbook transplant. Mixed media in sketchbook, January 2011. Tweaked a bit in Photoshop, photo reference here:
http://www.loveartdeco.com/nudelyingback.php
In other news, the friend who left before came back after about a week for a holiday! It was great, but it did make the going away party seem a bit like overkill! She ended up staying with me for a few days but left again today. Miss her already, plus now I'm going to have to get myself up in the mornings! Hopefully she'll be back to visit again soon though :]
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