This is a drawing that I did today based on a doodle from a few days ago. Illustration Friday has the topic of the day of "Instinct". Certainly instinct plays a critical role in skiing along with refelexes, coordination, judgement (or lack thereof for barrelling down a mountain on skis at bone breaking speeds at my age) and a Jedi like ability to control your fear. This self portrait was done in my usual style with Higgins India ink and a #1 American Painter brush.
Update: Watercolor coloring applied to reprint of original drawing.
9 comments:
Very good drawing, I would be very afraid to try that.
wonderful work!!! my instincts are to stay in the chalet by the fire...lol
I just began trying digital art, I am using primitive measures, paint program on my computer. Nothing fancy it comes standard on most computers. I play to get a better program when I can afford it.
Excuse my typos, that is plan to get a better program, lol
I try to do everything organic. I am resisting digital art. To me, if there is not an original that I can hold in my hands, it's just not the same. That being said, the color version of this was done after scanning and reprinting the original so that I would not change it. After I scanned the color version I shredded it, keeping only the original B&W drawing. My friend, Michael Netzer creates all of his work digitally now, but worked as I do in the seventies with pencil and ink. Thank you both for the kind words.
Great gesture on the person. It really convey's the movement of skiing
I like the firm lines applied. The varied widths of the lines used.
Thanks all of you for the positive comments.
Malachi- I loved your spiderman.
Shyue Chou- The firm lines w/ varied widths are the hallmark of inking with a brush as opposed to a pen or marker. You really should try it out. I recommend a #1 ans #2 american painter. They really are hard to master, as I still have a ways to go, but I love the results.
Nice work Tim!
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