Visual Diary – I Said KNEEL.

Over the last 24 hours, music again has taken on that fantastic quality I need to make something completely new and inspired. Last time this happened it lasted for months, but I’m learning just to ride out the waves. This is Mitzi.

Mitzi is a spoiled King in my Kingdom!Au, and is also the “King” of the Court in the New Canon AU. She always plays the villain, and embodies qualities of apathy, laziness, greed, power and even sadism to different extents where it becomes relevant. In real life, she’s just a sarcastic layabout who spends too much time on the internet.

Had a fantastic time editing these. The idea actually came because the photo I took of the ink drawing went into my camera roll upside-down, and I looked at it and thought… oh, hell yeah.

I really enjoy playing with upside-down things, especially type. Makes the viewer work a little harder, or makes the type more purely ornamental, rather than central to reading the image.

The pages are laid out in a convenient way to show how this image moved from idea to pose tests to ink. I like to sketch the MOST BASIC proportions and key points under my ink, and perhaps get the expression right, and then leave most of the detail to the inking, so I retain that expression and directness. My inking process matures.

Leave a comment

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started