Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Work in Progress

I showed the gals last night at our monthly meeting a black and white piece I'm working on, that I'm having some trouble with. I want to create a few vignettes in black and white to go along with my full color piece entitled "Crush". And I'm struggling with translating my nerdy girl character into something without color... I don't want to use too many shades of gray, especially in the skin, because I'm afraid she'll look like a corpse, but using linework doesn't seem so right either since my art in color doesn't use any ...

Here's Crush :

And what I showed them last night:
I got a lot of great suggestions, and I plan on working out several variations. Here's just one revision, with someone suggesting the lines of the arms and face be a lighter gray, so her black glasses really pop :
What do you think? Am I one the right path? Would all shades of gray be better, and I shouldn't worry about a corpse girl? Or should it be only linework, with no gray?

3 comments:

  1. Hi Vita,

    I think the gray lines for the arms work much better. Takes the focus off of the outstretched hand and back in to the face.

    I wouldn't worry too much about the corpse-skinned girl. Maintaining the solid shades of your style makes more sense than adding lines.

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  2. I like the gray vs. black lines too. It doesn't read as 'corpse' in either version. I do keep catching on the gap b/w her arm and her shirt, maybe if it was tighter? Like where her neck meets her shirt? I think she looks cute in b&w. The other thing to think of is that rarely is paper as bright white as your screen, or even home office paper stock. That alone will soften her up.

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  3. By the way, Vita, once you resolve this...I'd really like to see corpse girl.

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