New in progress

Here is an in-progress piece thats pretty big. I want to try and combine the pencil shading work that I love to do with the splattered paint mess that I don't love to do but I think looks good. I'm not sure if its going to work, but it ought to be better than the art I've done in the last few months (read: none). Something that's got me pumped to try and do some more art is the Tata Gala art show coming up soon, put on by Erik Jones. I love his art and the idea behind the show rules. Money raised from the show goes towards breast cancer research, so the theme behind the entire thing is breasts. It is, in his words, "your opportunity to draw boobs and to not feel bad about it." I often focus more on faces, but this still seems to be right up my alley. This is the 4th year, and I completely wimped out last year. I plan on submitting a few pieces this year. Here's what I'm working on.

I think the idea will be something like this (this was an earlier version of the sketch, played with in photoshop)

The basic feel will be that she's wearing a very low cut dress, with the dress and background blending in to frame her in all black. Obviously, the tata gala focus on boobs will be covered by the cleavage. I can't bring myself to flat out draw naked breasts and I like the hint more anyway, so this will hopefully have more of a hint feel to it. I haven't quite decided how much I want to focus on that part yet (more low-cut? more boobs? less? less dress? more?)- for now I'm just loving smear-shading the hell out of her face. The other ideas I'm tossing up are how much splatter there will be, and if I will leave the black completely black- like, splatter-paint her and leave all black, or splatter the black and leave her as-is. None of that probably means anything to anyone but me, but whatevs, the idea is out. There should be a big update soon- the plan is to finish this some'bitch by next week and start up another one. I'm going to attempt to attack the hell out of this newfound desire to do art.

currently listening to: The Roots- How I Got Over