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

[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.