having failed at my first attempt i decided to try something clean and simple, being that it was going to promote myself i thought about a self portrait. i often draw from my face for expression or trying to get a part of an awkward pose so this was nothing new, i wanted it to be something a bit different.
one night when answering the call of nature i got a brain wave of why depict myself in night ware, not something seen often in self portraits but the what the hell, defy convention an all that. above was a very quick pencil sketch i did of myself, i am very happy with how it turned out, just a case of adding some ink.
once the sketch had been inked i felt that the card itself looked quite sparse, at the minute i have something of an obsession with mignola and tried using some bold shapes like the pro himself. however it really isn't as easy at is looks as is reflected by the image above which totally failed.
the above image was my second attempt at engaging the space more, just using some scanned brush strokes, it was ok more in the direction i had imagined but still not quite right, he whole image appear quite unbalanced and lacking in some background detail on the left hand side especially.
it wasn't until i had taken some time out to work on the narrative that i really considered my process, thinking about how i had overlaid brush strokes to complement part of an image gave me a sudden brain wave. Applying a similar brush stroke to my portrait could in effect make it appear as a very happy coincidence with a brush and ink, so with the original inks i scanned in a big brush stroke and erased and kept what information complemented the design and theme of the drawing, i am very happy with the end result and glad i persevered until i got the end result i did. Lets hope moo does a good job on printing them.
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