Leaning on a Wall
It often happens that as I’m drawing, and thinking “This is going pretty well,” the timer goes off and I realize I haven’t had time to add a face, or even an outline of the shape of the hair. When it happened this time, I used the time of the next pose to partially stroke in some hair detail on the left and then roughly faked in a generic face. A couple of days later I decided to play with the image and see if I could get it to a point where I liked it enough to have a print made. I scanned it and added a background image texture, then masked out the background from the body shape. I thought the strong contrast of the body against the background was working, so I added some minimalist pink color to the figure (in Photoshop). The full figure drawing created a canvas shape that was too tall and skinny for my liking. To get the image to a standard 32 x 24 proportion I cropped both the top and bottom of the image. Maybe it’s just me, but the effect of only one eye showing makes the composition more interesting.
Lady Leaning on a Wall • 32 x 24
