Art: Ygraine (G)

[sigune]

I don't want to count the hours I spent working on this small picture! It measures 13 x 21 cm and I started it on the Thalys to Paris. (I have a little something with trains and drawing, don't I?) All that remains from what I drew on the train is the nose, the hand and the rose. All else was reworked again and again. All that to end up with such a flawed drawing... But somehow I like its flaws. They give Ygraine something a little bit otherworldly, which is quite appropriate to the character.






(See a larger version at deviantART here.)



I didn't expect I would be happy with the colours I got from using colour pencils. But it turns out that I am. Maybe my colours skills have improved, because when I tried colour pencils in a Moleskine sketchbook before, I didn't like the result at all. Now I am actually looking for a type of paper as close in texture to Moleskine as I can find, because I want to do this again in the future on loose sheets :-).

I spent more time and effort than usual researching the costume and jewellery (even though you don't see a whole lot of it *g*). That is because this drawing is part of my concept pictures for the final version of The Darkest Hour. More will follow.

Comments

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Thank you! :D That, and I'm happy to see you around here :-).

It's wonderful to read that the picture and the colours work like this. To me it feels as if this picture just - happened. The colours, that is, because they came more or less spontaneously, in contrast with the hours of work on the line art.

Your 'emotional reaction' brought a big smile to my face. It will sound silly (...or tragic? *g*), but drawing beautiful women turns out to be really difficult for me. The story requires Ygraine to be the kind of woman for whose love a king conducts a great battle against his best friend. That makes drawing her a little bit - stressful ;-).