Up A Tree

(Jul 07, 2010)

I wanted to do a quick piece this week, since I don’t want to show off anything I’ve been working on yet. However, most of my ideas have been some sort of fan art or AMATEURS-related, of which I feel I’ve been posting too much lately.  As Jonathan put it, I wanted to think “outside of the dork-box”.

So today’s image is inspired by an old photograph of a family friend.  The details in the photo aren’t very clear (one of the reasons I’m not including it in this post), so there was a lot of room for invention when drawing branches and details.  I also had a chance to play around with inking… I think the final result is a little labored-over, but I feel I got the “essence” of the image down well enough.