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As i'm tied-up getting some commissions done i thought i would post some stuff from my dA gallery this week - some fractals, fantasy art, op-art, fine-art, illustrations etc....i'll move all non-anthro art to my scaps in a few days after posting....sorry for delay on new anthro pics...soon....
Rachel - from Blade Runner. Done around August '09 for another art book of the old friend i did the Roland pic for. He has pics from most of the the major comic/sf/fantasy artists in his books - being asked to do a piece in that company is as intimidating as it gets (i.e., there was a fantastic ink drawing of The Shadow by Steranko earlier in the book....that sort of stuff....).
And i hadn't touched a pencil let alone pen or brush for the last five years while limiting myself to work on learning digital tech.
...hello pencil, pen, brush......
...even the ink i used was about 15 years old...
it's the fractal thingy...looking for wave patterns vanishing and re-emerging....
(2 page spread, scan clone-brushed to meld pages)
And, yes, the brush strokes showing in the "black" area is on purpose - it would have been much easier to have laid in a flat black - i wanted the brush strokes.
Drawn while looking at a colour frame from the movie, reducing it to back&white in my head...Not a tracing, so i hope that doesn't violate any rules?
One must also note that Rachel was played by Sean Young - and you forget you're seeing an actress while watching her - it's Rachel! Iconic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Young
larger size at dA:
http://lachland-nightingale.deviant.....chel-131684915
i have a gradient mapped version at dA as well :
http://lachland-nightingale.deviant.....lour-131685629
Rachel - from Blade Runner. Done around August '09 for another art book of the old friend i did the Roland pic for. He has pics from most of the the major comic/sf/fantasy artists in his books - being asked to do a piece in that company is as intimidating as it gets (i.e., there was a fantastic ink drawing of The Shadow by Steranko earlier in the book....that sort of stuff....).
And i hadn't touched a pencil let alone pen or brush for the last five years while limiting myself to work on learning digital tech.
...hello pencil, pen, brush......
...even the ink i used was about 15 years old...
it's the fractal thingy...looking for wave patterns vanishing and re-emerging....
(2 page spread, scan clone-brushed to meld pages)
And, yes, the brush strokes showing in the "black" area is on purpose - it would have been much easier to have laid in a flat black - i wanted the brush strokes.
Drawn while looking at a colour frame from the movie, reducing it to back&white in my head...Not a tracing, so i hope that doesn't violate any rules?
One must also note that Rachel was played by Sean Young - and you forget you're seeing an actress while watching her - it's Rachel! Iconic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Young
larger size at dA:
http://lachland-nightingale.deviant.....chel-131684915
i have a gradient mapped version at dA as well :
http://lachland-nightingale.deviant.....lour-131685629
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fanart
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 889px
File Size 380.9 kB
Thanks! ^_^ i was sort of terrified the whole time i was doing this pic - i hadn't held a pencil let alone a pen or brush in five years - hadn't been drawing realistic human faces - etc etc...and i was going to take this iconic moment from one of the best films ever and convert if from moving colour to stark black and white....i pretty much felt like i'd bitten off way too much - This was in a friend's art book with all the major sf/fantasy/comics artists in it...if i messed up i'd have to cut the pages out (there were one or two cut out pages if i recall)....but as it started to come together everything felt just right...sort of hit a groove. Been doing traditional inking again since then. (Still doing digital too...)
Not that this was a technical exercise - i wanted to translate that moving film image to something that might be art...Rachel's cold (false)perfection and loneliness and Deckard's crumbling bias to replicants as machines or humans as others - why he had quit being a blade runner, a killer....
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