Quite a lot of the sketches and pieces I've been working on lately have been very "guy-centric". So much so that I sat down to draw some female characters a couple of days ago and all the faces looked off or wonky.
So I've spent the last couple of days just drawing various female character, and female faces, and expressions. Trying to power through the block and get back on track. I always sit there dithering about which character to draw if I'm left to my own devices, so I asked for a few suggestions from Twitter and within a few minutes had a very healthy list to pick from.
It's a great excuse to draw some characters I've never tackled before, so one of the suggestions, from my good buddy Marc Laming, was Modesty Blaise. I've never read anything of the character before so had to Google some reference pictures.
Some of the results had some pictures by comic blogger and costumer extraordinaire Elizabeth Amber of her Modesty Blaise costume. One of the pictures had a great pose and balance and had a great hand configuration on the pistol to practice with. I've heard Elizabeth Amber's review spots on the CGS podcast and have been following her for a little while on Twitter, so I shot her a tweet asking if she'd mind if I used her photo as a reference shot for the piece. She very graciously agreed so today's post is the inked up finished sketch of Elizabeth Amber as Modesty Blaise.
1 comments:
This is really incredible! I love that you gave it strong inks. Modesty needs that. It balances the lights and darks and addresses her personality at the same time. Fantastic job!
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