ch-ch-ch-ch-CHANGES!
Last week I did a piece for More magazine about the relationship between a young girl and her hip writer boyfriend in a dysfunctional relationship. After a couple of rounds of sketches, the art director ok'd this sketch and I took it to final.
A couple of days later, I heard back from the art director told me that the editors didn't want the girl in such a disturbed pose and asked me to do something else with her. At first I didn't want to, but then I re-drew it so that she was sleeping instead. Also, I added a couple of textures as an experiment since I had a bit more time. I was pretty surprised how changing the figure the way I did totally changed the narrative to be so much more about the guy.
have a great week, thanks for reading.
frank
posted by Frank at 12:17 PM
6 Comments:
Love this!
Amazing drawing! Really interesting to see how much it changed because of the girl.
Nicely done, I do prefer the second one .
great piece. they both work, but have very different moods.
Frank...you are a damn beast....your line work always gives me goosebumps.The looseness of them gives the drawing so much character. I was always wondering...how much do you refine your pencil stages before the inking. I see the sketch you have posted..and then the final...but is there a stage where you clean up your drawing or do you just jump straight to the inking from the rough?...Keep crankin' man. Your work is very inspiring.
-Tin
Thanks everyone!
Tin, to answer your question: yes, sometimes there is a tight pencil drawing in between the sketch and the final. Generally when I blog I like to show what was ok'd by the art director.
Whether or not I do the extra step depends on the complexity of the piece--i.e. if something is going to be difficult to draw, I'll sketch it up really tight.
For the Southern Poverty piece last week, I drew the pencils very tight because of all the details I wanted to get right. I can usually draw a figure on the fly with a really loose sketch or nothing at all, but for details like trees and plants the final drawing can come out wanky if I don't think it through ahead of time.
Pieces that are very simple, like my Indiana Jones sketches, were done with only a few very loose scribbles and improvised from there.
Thanks for the question!
Frank
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