Here's something i just sorta pulled out of my ass ( ...so to speak.)
Since Moebius was on my mind lately.... I drifted back to doing a face in an 'Idyl' Style, which were these beautiful a one page strips Jeffrey Catherine Jones did for National Lampoon in the 70s. Obviously nobody draws women like Jones...
but, as a tribute, i thought i'd try inking three women's faces in three different styles.
Also, the title also being a pun on 'The Three Faces of Eve' movie, (as my ALL my art seems to suffer from 'multiple personality disorder', style wise..)
okay, sorta boring right now. also hard to see in light pencil, but you get the idea. i'm not worried yet about the faces all looking exactly the same, a few eyes on some faces are little too hight, so will try to correct in the inks. But the point isn't them looking exactly the same, is it?
it's more an inking exorcize. I'm trying to use a dry brush here.. that's why i've let it try enough to make 'tire tracks' on this piece of cloth..
bu first a little brush for those eyelashes.. the dry brush is mostly for *very light* ... almost feathery shadows right now.
in fact let's not even use a brush n her hair.. it's going to be the lightest of the three, so why not black colored pencil on the hair.
THERE - at least i'll have the self restraint NOT to add a wash for a change, which should keep it nice and airy. Sorta dark on left side, lighter on the other.
So next i'll use a thicker dry brush like Jones used in his Idyl one pagers. These are harsher direct lighting. This style is always trickier because any pencil flaws stick right out.
We have no soft face rendering to hide the flaws in do we, with classic black and white it's all 'out there' like a sore thumb isn't it?
I can already see her left eye is too high, so i didn't correct enough. oh well. This one came out much faster, and i tried to keep it rough and high contrast mostly...
...but i cheated a little.....add some thinker rendering brush lines in a few spots ..
Onto number three... for this let's do it in a nice blue grey with one of those asian pen brushes.. theres that lens shadow on the paper from my flash... sorry about that. I need to pop for a new camera don't i?
This face also went pretty fast..
okay, that's a little softer.
i won't start in asking which everyone likes better, though i am curious.
Maybe a better question that which one we 'like best', is just... understanding what each one has to offer. Why choose one of these styles in a drawing or story? ( or a hundred others styles i'll never master)
Each style creates a different mood, even aside from the technical drawing skills in the faces themselves, ( or lack there of).
So which one i use might depend on the mood of the story, or even just mood i'm in when i'm drawing it. Duh. Belaboring the obvious here. Guessing i'm working it out in my own mind though, because i so rarely articulate this crap, it usually happens automatically. Intuitively.
Funny, ... i was telling Jon Way$hak how, in my mind.. that when i'm penciling the Hollows panel i pretending I'm doing my own version of Moebius drawing. But when i ink a Hollows panel, i find myself imagining i'm Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
Course by the time i finish with whatever washes, colors or additional inks, it looks nothing like EITHER of them.. not that i could look like either of them in the first place.
So in an odd sorts of way, trying to draw past i usually look like, usually results in a more interesting 'sam drawing'. Not always. But, sometimes.
Even if what was originally in my imagination....
....never comes out of my pencil (or brush) as i intended.
