With dodge applied


Original drawing. The train was actually shorter, then I decided to lengthen it...

I was browsing through the Photodiarist's blog portrait of a man in a trenchcoat, and then I felt like drawing a trenchcoat. Easy enough.

So I decided to find a colour that I could use for sketching. Yeah, cause I don't like using black to sketch, too dull and tough to cover later when I colour. I ended up colouring out the collar of the "trenchcoat" with it, ad then a bodice.

Then I decided to try those flowy sleeves. In lime green.
Then I wanted to show the arms, so I drew them on top in white.
So the sleeves became a cape, and with a bit of colouring became wings.
I drew in the face last (damned, I hate drawing heads last. Anatomy wonky.) and edited the legs a couple of times. Cue lots of ruthless eraser action.


I don't know what happened next, just a lot of Lady Gaga songs on loop and colouring.

And hey, it turned out okay, and it was damned fun.

Then I remembered Christian Lacriox (links to Luxirare's post), whose method of sketching involves more colour and shape than form and anatomy, and I felt so "oh, so that's why huh!" I mean, it was so fun playing with crazy colours it was like crack.

I decided in the end that I took my ideas from Victorian Fashion (especially 1868 to 1887) and ostriches. I know, psychedelic ostriches! :D Cute hey! I mean, all the designers always think of "taking inspiration from nature" and then doing a lot of earthy colours, and taking most of the inspiration from like the natural colours and the texture or whatnot. What about birds? The bird of paradise's colour upped several notches in luminosity and saturation is like crack (overusing words D:) and the shape of an ostrich is pretty kooky when compared with the Victorian fashion.

ALAKAZAM, they merge, and you get this! 8D