ye olde eggsack face revisited.
I'm cleaning up pictures for some mini comics I'm making. It's an interesting and absorbing process. I do it with most of my images at least a little bit, but nothing to thorough or in such bulk as what I'm doing right now. I'm making mini's based on subject matter rather than personal preference, which means I'm attempting to resuscitate pictures I thought were worthless just because I think they add something thematically.
Original
cleaned up.
ince the majority of the black-and-white ink drawings I post here are done in my sketchbooks, they tend to be only about an inch or two big, sketched quickly to capture an idea. I tend not to be very happy with stuff I try to redraw bigger "for real", since it looses so much of the energy I get when I'm working small. I generally chafe against digital drawing but I'm really liking where some of this is going, keeping my original lines but being able to zoom in on a lot of the little disgusting details. the original of this picture was so small I could have blotted out the face with a thumbprint, but now I can go in and paint teeth inside of the ragged cheek. NEATO.
My partner looks over my shoulder a lot and seems to usually like the originals over the clean-ups, that I'm still stiffening a lot of the life out of them. What do you think? I have a hard time judging my own work. It's hard to tell the difference between what makes your work different than other people's in a good way, verses what just makes it crappy and amateurish.
I'm making mini's to bring to TCAF, but I don't have a table! So I am not sure how to go about getting them out in the world. Guess what this one book is going to be about! Tee hee. I think I will probably carry them around in a big envelope labeled MINI-COMICS FOR TRADE OR PURCHASE: ASK ME HOW. With my name. Which is GILLIAN BLEKKENHORST, by the way. I have short hair and a paperclip in my ear. I will probably be wearing a blue polyester dress. Maybe someone will let me leave my mini's on their table.
