Studio Time

This is based on a photograph that I took of Monika; a strikingly pretty woman that I met somewhere in the Chicago goth scene in the late ’90s. She’s the kind of person who turns heads just about everywhere.

I made a stylized sketch from the photo, photographed that and optimized it in gimp… some warping, the cartoon filter and so on. I printed this back out and, just naturally, had to scribble on it. There’s some watercolor and acrylic washes here as well. They give a sort of vague idea of where to take the drawing and introduce a few more random elements to things. The drawing itself is worked in with watercolor pencils and water-soluble graphite.