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Thank you Syd, Sandra, David and Margaret for your interest and encouraging remarks. I've finished this picture now...I've added more silhouettes, touches of paint, but mostly added pen work. I've scaled it down to the final 6 x 4 inch size, and have cropped it slightly...I think that makes it better. I need three more landscape, and two portrait formats for this group picture...I have ideas for them, but think I'll work on something else for a while. I'll go back to the 'doodle' style picture that I began this thread with. I also have a picture underway based on a story from 1001 nights, plus I've been sketching for a picture based on the Lady Godiva myth. All this may seem a bit chaotic, but I like having several things going, it keeps my interest alive. I'll post something else in a day or so.
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Lew, you have an amazing talent. The 'sad song' brill, and the 'biker'
In my younger days I used to do the leathers and biker's stuff, would it be possible to see some 'metal' still love ACDC when driving on long roads, even though I should have retired years ago. Still a young un', at heart.
Ta, Lew :)
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For sometime I've been thinking of a Lady Godiva picture...it will be cartoon style, otherwise I'll be tied to too much reference material. First, a reminder of the story. Apparently she was a real person living in the 11th Century...but her famous ride is a myth. Anyway. Her husband was about to impose crippling taxes on the people of Coventry, she begged him not to do it...at length he said he wouldn't impose the taxes if she rode naked through the streets of Coventry. He never imagined that she would. She did. But everybody stayed indoors and shut all the windows. (Much later a 'peeping Tom' character was added to the myth, who was struck blind when he saw Godiva.) My problem with this myth is, presumably the ride was to embarrass her husband...to shame him...but if she rode through the streets and nobody saw her...where was the embarrassment? So my version will have everybody on the streets cheering her on, makes more sense to me, she becomes the fated heroine, and her husband would have been mortified. Doesn't matter...it's a myth.
I haven't got far with it...just a few sketches to get in the mood. It will be portrait format, 20 x 16 inches and have a lot of characters in it. Here's a scribbled layout idea...you may be able to work out what's happening...crowds, people leaning out of windows, bells ringing...it's intended to be a joyous occasion. The scribbled layout below...
I've also been doing sketched ideas for what may appear in the picture, or not, mainly to get 'in the flow' for the picture. They include some done waiting in a Xray waiting room.
All this may change when I actually start it. It may seem a lot of fuss for a cartoon picture, but there'll be a lot of work and I'd like to start off with a good idea where I'm going with it. I enjoy it anyway. So, not much to see but I hope it's of interest.
Lew.
I've also been doing sketched ideas for what may appear in the picture, or not, mainly to get 'in the flow' for the picture. They include some done waiting in a Xray waiting room.
All this may change when I actually start it. It may seem a lot of fuss for a cartoon picture, but there'll be a lot of work and I'd like to start off with a good idea where I'm going with it. I enjoy it anyway. So, not much to see but I hope it's of interest.
Lew.
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I haven't done much this last couple of weeks, I've been doing outside jobs now the weather has improved.
Sad Song project...I done another pic for this...the clarinet player in the middle top row. As ever, I'm not sure about it. I need to leave things a while to form an opinion on whether to keep it. I'm showing the layout of the whole project, you'll see there's a lot to do.
People and Animals Doodle...I did a bit more on this (it's in my A3 sketchbook). This was done at my art group last week. It was a particularly chatty session, so I didn't get much done. The chap confusing a cat for his wig, and the lady hanging her washing on a snake (as you do), are the new bits. Lots of space for more bits.
Lew.
People and Animals Doodle...I did a bit more on this (it's in my A3 sketchbook). This was done at my art group last week. It was a particularly chatty session, so I didn't get much done. The chap confusing a cat for his wig, and the lady hanging her washing on a snake (as you do), are the new bits. Lots of space for more bits.
Lew.