Illustration Fridays "Twirl"

Illustration Fridays : Friday January 27th



Hey guys here is my illustration for this weeks word, "twirl"

At first I thought this week would be bogus, the last thing I draw was a flower or a ballerina being the first things that came to mind.  However i began to think of the meaning of the word more and I thought on the idea of the classic spy and villain encounter where the villain twirls around in his chair to face the protagonist.

In the end I decided to combine a few ideas of plants twirling twisting around itself and the spy villain idea.  So i drew up a rough sketch of what i thought the picture might look like.

After a few attempts i thought the picture above was the one with the most potential and was happy with the idea even though it didn't reflect the word "twirl" as much as i would have hoped,  I liked this idea so i went ahead and drew up a second spending more time on it.  Unfortunately I got carried away and finished it before I knew it, so I didn't take a picture of the line drawing.  Either way here is the finished product.

 

I was extremely pleased with how this turned out, much better then the first draft in my opinion.  I had a lot of fun drawing this and a few times went on a tangent and drew an eye, a singing groundhog on the guys lap and for the heck of it i gave him a top hat.  I mean really who doesn't want a top hat!?
Originally I was going to do this as a watercolor, however the graphite was much to visible from tracing the line drawing.  Instead I used water color to play around with some color and used pencil crayon to do the final drawing.  I added some shading in pencil to the man and then went over the whole thing with a fine tip marker.  In the end I think I prefer the pencil crayon but I still want to paint.  Maybe next week...

Kees Vermeulen