Illustration Friday: Impossibility

13 Comments » Written on April 18th, 2009 by Kiri
Categories: Illustration Friday, Sketches

impossibility

Media: Photoshop 7

Sometimes when I conceive of a drawing , the entire picture forms as a visual in my mind. I often take this visual and then look for photo references, so that I can get the anatomy correct. In many cases, I can’t find refs for exactly what I’m thinking of, and I end up modifying my original idea to fit.

This was almost one of those cases. I couldn’t find an exact reference, but I also wasn’t happy with any of the sketches I developed from the photos I did find. I ended up scrapping all the refs and just drawing what was in my head, and I think I’m much happier with the results.

And just for fun, here’s the original pencil sketch:

imposssketch

13 Responses to “Illustration Friday: Impossibility”

Excellent! …

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kiriko Reply:

Thank you! :)

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Love the socks!

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kiriko Reply:

Haha, that was my favorite part to draw. :)

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Fantastic! I love it! Its originality is so wonderful. And its cool that you also showed the sketch. Nice work!

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kiriko Reply:

Thanks! :)

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Excellent! One of the 3 or 4 best on this theme.

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kiriko Reply:

Wow, thanks!

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Al McDermid Reply:

Do you have a deviantart.com account?

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kiriko Reply:

I do, it’s http://kiriko-moth.deviantart.com

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beautiful work :)

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kiriko Reply:

Thank you!

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Hello Kiriko,

I’ve just found your blog. Really beautiful work! And how you describe your working process, it is just the same as I do :D except that I like coloring it with watercolour.
I hope I can be as good as you one day :) You’ve got a new follower :)

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