Needle

[egypturnash]

This is why I was digging through my old stuff: after we watched "Brick" last night, I wanted to do something with this sketch from way back in 2003.



Needle

She knew it would kill her, in the end.

(Technique note: There are only two color swatches in this image - the black and the blue. And no tinting layer. I discovered that a tint of a rich black swatch gets really interesting results: the black drops out a lot quicker than the colors do, lending color to a greyscale image. This really only works on a CMYK document; you can't easily 'hide' color under the black like this.)

Comments

[medox.livejournal.com]

I love the film-like scratches. Gorgeous.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's the Shadow the Hedgehog drug...

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand that. Although I stopped playing Sonic games after Sonic Adventure 2. After the Dreamcast.

[http://users.livejournal.com/innerlife_/]

You stopped at the best possible time. Good work. You saved yourself.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was a lie. I've played a little bit of Sonic Heroes. Never again.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

The symbols on the hands bear a superficial resemblance to the character's emblem.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I drew the original sketch back in '03; if anything, I was thinking more of Lightwave's spiral-with-bits logo.

[luoto.livejournal.com]

Ah, Greta Garbo!

[mutleyjames.livejournal.com]

You are an amazing storyteller...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Story is what makes things interesting to me. Story's why I linger half the time. Story's part of my sex life, though not this particular story.

A picture's worth a thousand words, but a picture and a handful of carefully chosen words is worth a lot more. I absorbed that from Edward Gorey at an impressionable age.