Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Fanart, sorta



Somewhat obscure and oblique fanart. I get very oblique when I'm at my most fangirly, to try and protect my dignity.

This is part of my ongoing attempt to learn to draw people properly. I started with the quote underneath. It took me ages to get the lines perfectly misaligned, by feeding the page into an old typewriter at a slightly different angle for each line. I discovered that the typewriter has a setting where it doesn't use the ink ribbon. I'm not sure what it's for - possibly cleaning the keys - but I used it for the last line, where it produced an attractive blind-embossed effect. Of course the scanner didn't approve of that at all, and I spent hours on GIMP with the clone tool, trying to recreate the letters.

After the words were typed I drew in the figure. Originally the plan was to colour it and go mad with ink and so on, but now I like it so much that I'm afraid to touch it again. I figured that if I scanned it in and posted it it would gain some sort of permanence, so if I mess it up completely after this it's not a total waste.



5 comments:

  1. I L.O.V.E her!
    She is perfection without colour and the text is just right!

    Clever you Lesley - I am VERY impressed .

    Happy day clever lady - this has made my day.

    xx Felicity

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  2. Aw, thank you so much for your kind words, you sweet people!

    Lisa, you most definitely count. But you're not so much a fangirl as a patron, like in the Renaissance! Don't know what I'd do without you :)

    Felicity, jumping for joy :D

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  3. Oh, and I should have said, the quote is from lyrics by Jimmy Eat World (although you probably found that out by now via the genius of Google)

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  4. Absolutely beautiful - I love her expression and her hair, she looks almost like a dryad/water nymph.

    xx

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  5. Another stunning drawing. You are welcome to draw me something like this with a terribly deep quite anytime :P - Lindi

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