Hi my loves, welcome back to a new video in my 30 Ways to fill a sketchbook series.
Today’s painting looks at getting a bit more surreal with subject matter and more
adventurous with colours.
Which I thought would be a fitting addition next to the weird and wonderful Courage the
Cowardly Dog.
So I started out by just sketching without thinking really.
I wanted to lay down an idea really quickly without putting too much thought into it.
So at first is was just a girl which was kind of boring, I ended up giving her like octopus
tentacle hands and drawing a creature perched on her shoulder that started out going to
be a flamingo but ended up turning into a long-legged deer or fawn.
Her hair and these sort of clouds billowing around her were supposed to look quite fleshy
and kind of fatty, I think they ended up taking on more of the look of like bleached coral
reefs.
This was one of the very rare instances in my art where I really don’t consider anything
too deeply, whatever something looks like ends up being what it becomes rather than
thinking of a thing and trying to draw something that looks like it.
The artwork itself I don’t think you could class as abstract, in this case it was more
of an abstraction of thoughts.
Very deep.
With the painting, again, I didn’t have any colour schemes or anything in mind.
I had the thought that I’d use dreamy galaxy colours, do something quite dark in the background
for her to stand out against.
The way she’s standing is quite imposing so I wanted to frame her in a way that would
exaggerate that even more, which is why I left her quite pale as well.
At one point I smudged the paint into her hair accidentally, so I did the same thing
on the other side of her head to make it look a bit more intentional.
The great thing about drawing something so out there is that nothing has to make sense
and your mistakes can really easily be covered up by just incorporating them into the piece.
The smudge of paint on the hair ended up adding to the coral reef look I think because it
added some jagged edges and it also made the flow of her hair look a bit more like horns.
So I’m continuing on with my rediscovered love of inking with biro.
And I think it worked out really well.
I was able to add a bit of controlled shading and some very subtle changes in line thickness
wherever I felt it was necessary.
I feel a lot more confident drawing in biro because I’m not so scared that every line
I put down has the potential of going wrong, which sometimes feels like the case when I’m
using a brush pen.
With this I’m much more in control I think.
I’m imagining her as some kind of mystical gate-keeper.
Or a guardian of some far off space place, she’s got this all-knowing air about her.
I didn’t leave her eyes blank for any particular reason but now that I think about it, maybe
it’s because she doesn’t need to see you to know who you are, to know your character
and if you’re worthy of passing her.
Anyway I finished u by adding details with pencil, white gel pen and a metallic marker
by winsor and newton, as always everything will be listed below.
Thank you all so much for watching, I’ll see you soon for the next one.
Bye!