Added 1 new A* page:Had to be up and hanging around my place to be sure I'd intercept a delivery of A* prints I need for a new art show going up this weekend, so instead of going to the gym in the morning as I usually do, I just sat down and started working on the day's A* page, and you know...that didn't work at all. I was pretty out of it I guess, because I couldn't seem to draw anything and eventually just sort of doodled a face and went from there with no particular thought toward overall layout. Blugh. Here's an early face, just before it was erased--I liked it, but it was too large (that's a problem I tend to have and I was struggling with this mentally all day; I think to a certain extent though Selenis, being slightly below average height, has come to have a proportionally bigger head than say a tall fashion model in my own head, and I just can't seem to shake that picture of her):
And near the final phase I went with that first try--next would have been sharpening things up with some white ink, but after actually going to the gym in the late afternoon (after securing the prints, whew) and coming back, I realized that even the mighty waterproof white ink wasn't going to salvage this (and this is the best part of it probably):
I actually like that photo of it, crops out the big empty areas all around the tiny rough Selenis figure; also the Instagram filter gave it a warmth and center focus it didn't actually have. After that though I tried to rearrange the features a bit (still obsessed with head size) and messed them up again and gave up. : P The barkeeper was okay too I guess; I liked the angle and outline, but couldn't really figure out how to make him stand out properly:
Sooo I threw that aside and just started over, even though it's later than I'd have liked, and a bit hurried, I think the second try was an improvement. Oh yeah here's a warm-up sketch (the only decent one of a *ton* I attempted--I was in a pretty deep drawing funk I guess!) I did before the second stab at the page:
Almost felt like a Monday today. : P
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