Word of the week time, seeing as I’ve not posted anything for 3 days now. So much for that idea of posting something everyday.
This week the word was EMPTY.
Been a bit of a struggle for me this one. I had an idea early on and set about drawing something. The problem was I was drawing the component bits in isolation so when I got to stitching then together it didn’t work out as I’d planned. So had to go back to the drawing board so to speak.
Here’s a breakdown about what I mean.
Initial early sketch of the young couple, struggled with the position of girl at the start.

Wasn’t happy with how this was going so redrew.

Felt quite happy with this image at this point so proceeded to draw the psycho.

Guess what. I wasn’t happy with this either. The idea being that the psycho should be in the shadows to the right of the door being opened. The theory being I didn’t need to draw all of the chap as he’d be in shadow.
That was a bollocks idea.
Here’s a redraw of the psycho that I was quite happy with.

Happy that is until I put them both together and realised that it just doesn’t work compositionally, figuratively (the couple and the axeman look like they’re from different worlds), and there wasn’t any real space to put the speech bubbles.

By this time it’s wednesday and the deadline for the image is looming quite large.
So I did another redraw of the characters.

This time they’re all on the same sheet, which, with a bit of jiggery pokery in illustrator(thought of using photoshop, would take way too long, so I live traced some inked in versions of the above image) leads to the finished image.

And so on to Shane’s pic.
Brilliant as usual. He probably got it in one too.























