Gasmasks are a great subject for artwork, reflecting an impersonal human quality and reflecting feelings of fear and aggression - plus they just look cool as steam-punk, retro-modern contraptions. A collaboration themed issue of DLA (Dead Letter Art - art collective) was the impetus for this drawing. Four separate gasmask creations were stitched together to form a drawing, similar in style to the Dadaist “exquisite corpse” recipe.
The original drawings, seen here, were spontaneous sketches created with a Pigma brushPen and twelve cups of coffee. When composing digitally i select images from my book which appeal to me and seem to be suitable for further composition. In this case, the two obese forms seem to share a bond that goes beyond their coincidental shared space in the book..
‘The Fool’ begins his journey as a pencil layout and is suddenly teleported into a world of digital dodging & burning. After some crude layout sketches to develop the idea for the Tarot card, the sketch is redone in my drawing book at a larger size where i can add more detail and finish the design. Intended to be an ink drawing, using pens, brushes and other utensils - i ran out of time to finish this Tarot drawing and decided it would be faster to complete it digitally. (uh.. yeah. right!) Continue reading this post »
