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Illustrate it #3: Fur 5353 Responses
Last post: 4 years, 2 months ago | Thread started: Feb 21, 08, 1:12 a.m.
- neverblink
This is the third edition of the QBN Illustration thread..
For those who are new to this, here are the previous threads:
#2: sauce: http://www.qbn.com/topics/542296…
#1: That's when it started: http://www.qbn.com/topics/541414…This time the brief is 'Fur'.. you know.. on animals, on coats, on humans, on whatevers.. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
Please post your initial idea and or any sketches you make in this thread, and ofcourse eventually your finished illustration.
go!
- Feb 21, 08, 1:12 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
your wolf-cry actually inspired this theme ;)
- Dog-earFeb 21, 08, 1:17 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
here's an old sketch I did.. I'll be making something new for this thread.. I just wanted more images in this thread :)
- Dog-earFeb 21, 08, 1:48 a.m. – Permalink
- Spookytim
I've done a bit of line work on my "Sauce" piece. Her face isn;t right at all - I need to make her eyes bigger and less squinty with more voluptuous lashes and eyeliner, but that's all to come. This is a very basic start on keylining it, I'm not sure ultimately what I'll do with this drawing. Part of me wants to make it weird as hell somehow, and another part of me says "Its a straight up cartoon, just do it and let it be what it is without adding any weird to it"
Hmmm.
- Dog-earFeb 21, 08, 2:35 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
bump for different timezones
- Dog-earFeb 21, 08, 12:11 p.m. – Permalink
- harlequino
You got moxie for continuing this thread series, I like that. Sadly, I have neither the skills nor time to contribute. So, with that:
- Dog-earFeb 21, 08, 12:24 p.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
nice wolf tasty..
Very realistic with the bloodspatter and all, how long did that take you? ;)- Dog-earFeb 22, 08, 1:53 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
just set up a photobucket.com account..
I think I'm gonna steal Spooky's lady-friend (see above) and give her a nice big moustache for this round..
- Dog-earFeb 22, 08, 3:42 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
here she is..
- Dog-earFeb 22, 08, 4:34 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
in response to note: so, is that a good thing?
ontopic: I have made a new sketch, inked it, but it will take some time before I get it scanned and colored.. but it's on it's way
- Dog-earFeb 24, 08, 8:44 a.m. – Permalink
- Spookytim
I don't know really... ha! ... it wasn't a bad thing in any sense that I was horrified to see a piece of my work defiled or anything like that, not at all, but it was really werid to see a piece of work re-interpreted and handed back looking so familar and yet, just so trippy and unfamilar.
I didn't necessarily 'like' the end result though I don't know quite why, but like I say it didn't offend me to see it.
In a way it highlights what I see as something bad in my own ongoing aesthetic sense. There is a way of drawing, a slant to what I do that is borne of certain elements of myself, my experiences and my upbringing. All of my work, always, is a struggle to rid myself of those inbuilt influences/ control elements and I just can't do it. My work always looks like my work. If I deliberately and wilfully approach my work with the absolute determination to create soemthing (for example) so completely free and wild and loose, it will end up looking like my studied attempt at being free and wild and loose, using the same brain to control the same hands as always. So I am trapped, and I can't escape.
You have interpreted and played this piece back to me as something unfamiliar and not done by my hand at all, and yet within it is the very aesthetic that I fight so hopelessly to remove from my work.
Probably more in-depth than you expected, but there's my answer! I feel like I might throw myself into my favourite canal again once I've finished here.
- Dog-earFeb 24, 08, 8:54 a.m. – Permalink
- neverblink
Tim, thanks for the write-up.
I can relate to everything you said about having an own aestethic, which can be both enemy and friend at the same time. I've actually fought for a long time against that familiar path my brain likes to take when drawing/designing - trying to not come up with the same thing over and over again - eventually I lost that fight. But looking back I still gained some more freedom in my drawings/designs.
Looking at the differences between our styles, you are much more detailed, where I'm kinda lazy in putting in details and often just go for a big guesture. Differences are good, that's what makes people interesting.- Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 12:02 a.m. – Permalink
- Complexfruit
In researching image references for the theme of fur, I came across a movie still from the movie "All About Eve" that I liked. Two of the characters were wearing fur.Pen, pencil, watercolor on Moleskine sketchbook.
- Dog-earFeb 25, 08, 10:10 a.m. – Permalink
