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Pen and ink on Graphics 360 Marker Paper.
For Illustration Friday topics, I suppose it's the same for a lot of artists. Sometimes the concepts come right to you and at times it's a struggle. The "entangled lovers" concept came to me early on, but until last night I didn't know how I wanted to render it.
I started in my sketchbook with some simple, figurative organic lines intertwined, or "entangled" if you will. I liked the idea of one figure embracing the other from behind, rather than a more "conventional" pose. Then came the difficult part - refining and editing until I could convey the imagery in the most economical and hopefully elegant way possible. After roughly 30 re-draws with the brush pen, I settled on the final image shown above. I probably could have kept refining it, but I have heard it said somewhere that art is never finished, only abandoned.
The concept that caused me to literally laugh myself awake is shown below. You can see I started rendering it digitally after the original sketch, but after the Tiger Woods doodle shown in the previous post, I decided to run with that instead of finishing the rendering.
So there's a little insight into my creative process. From an entangled house cat, to an entangled golf icon, to entangled lovers . . . Enjoy!
Take me back to more random thoughts . . .
