Now then, I haven't drawn on a regular basis at least since Barbaro roamed the earth, so instead of investigating too many approaches up front, I decided to just do some sketching of Mr. Elvis Costello. Below, you can see the two approaches I was taking. The marker approach... well, the marker approach sucks, but the other approach (uniball micros, as it were) has a bit of promise.
And yes, by "promise" I mean there were a total of two decent sketches, one of which looks suspiciously like Jack Nicholson despite the fact that he was nowhere near my apartment during this process.
A while later, I managed to churn out this baby.
It isn't perfect, but it's better than I expected to achieve on day 1. I like the look and feel of it, so I think I'm going to stick to the pen and ink approach; however, I still need to determine what he'll be doing in the image.
So, my question to you all... any thoughts on the last image? Any illustrators I should check out if I'm going to continue with this approach?
2 comments:
Your last image is the best one up there. Better focus on the proportions of his face and not just the nooks and crannies. What about something like David Cowles?
I'd like to see how you're going to play with line weight, especially since he has those glasses. The rest of him could easily disappear (for better or worse) behind them.
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