when thinking about my own self promotion i was quite unsure of how to sell myself, i knew it was going to be by means of an image and not some clever gimmick. This drew my attention to a piece of work i produced a couple of years ago, i never properly finished it because time got away from me, the idea has been something that ive been keen to revisit however. It centres around a few characters one of whom is an angel or cherub with two or more others about to clip his wings, i don't know why this image has stuck in my head but it seemed like a good opportunity to develop the visual.
i started with a page of ideas exploring the kind of visual i had previously developed and imagined, i wanted it to be quite a wide image so it could also work as a landscape border for a blog or website. with this in mind i set about very loosely arranging the elements and deciding the intensity of the expressions and interactions.
this pencil sketch above was my initial sketch after developing the ideas, i like the am dram nature of the hands on the central figure and the scissors pressed against the cheek. Although the image did appear quite static which is my only real criticism.
having penciled it out i attempted a couple of quick inks just with some layout paper to see the intensity of the image i would be producing, i have to say i was disappointed. The above image works a fair bit better than the one below- which is nothing short of a mess, however it still doesn't appear engaging enough. in the end i totally scrapped tis concept in favour of something more simple and reflective of me. literally.
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