Wednesday 20110202 Bringing the Pink

Sara

In anticipation of the Valentine's Day show at Location 1980, I decided to Bring the Pink. I drove up to the Art Supply Warehouse on Tuesday, looking for a dark pink and light pink marker to use. I've never really been a marker person (except for the drawing I won first prize for in Kindergarten,) but I decided it would be something I could use on my bristol board. My preferred choice would have been watercolors, but the bristol board doesn't hold up against all but the lightest of washes. I decided to buy copics, since it had percolated into my brain that they were the best. After trying out an insane number of similar pinks I bought the light pink RV21 (hightlighter pink) and the manly named baby blossom RV95 (slighty greyish purple.)

The pink didn't scan or photograph very well, so I color corrected using Gimp. The pink now looks correct, but the purples are a little too red compared to the originals.

From Hymm Art

Had live music this night. During the warm-up, I was trying to figure out what to use these two markers for. Using them in equal amounts wasn't really working, so I decided to use the pink as my mid tone and the purple as an accent color or to fill in my black shadows.

From Hymm Art

This is a continuation of the quick sketches I did of Jake before. The high contrast, heavy shadows. And a bit of continuation of a week ago of showing the brush marks to create a mid-tone. I circled to room looking for a more interesting angle of this post, but settled on where I was originally sitting because of the overall simple shape of the body, but there were interesting shadows on her back. I think this turned out really good, but at the end of the pose I felt it would have been even better if I had a better understanding of anatomy. Specifically the shape of the trapezius and lattisimus dorsi.

From Hymm Art

I also looked for a more interesting view of this pose, but decided I had done too many side views of this chair already. I exaggerated the size of the feet a little in this one, and really focused on giving detail to the shoes. It turned out ok, but I think it was more interesting with just the purple. When I added the pink in, it made the pose a little more indistinct. Originally the purple of the shoes and hat, really brought focus to the illustration.