Sunday 14 December 2008

Original charactor drawings

My original drawings had been created on white paper using black in, monoprint and pencil. I added different papers in varying shades of brown and cream for the clothing and used some watercolour and coffee for the shading. I decided as my circus has an old, tatty, 20th century feel I would keep all the colours neutral and I am pleased with the effect. However I didn't feel the characters were quirky and interesting enough so I did a couple of variants on brown paper with the character features being exaggerated further. I feel the Pierrot character is particularly effective on the brown paper.

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