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Are you planning to do anything with the BG, or to go somewhere else with the idea? Like making a color piece like the zombie guy up there? Depending on your intent there are a lot of ways you could go with your shading, coloring and/or overall style. If you are going realistic or put a background, I'd at least do enough shading to connect her to the ground plane you put in. You should try taking that image in a couple directions! do one with realistic shading, one in color with a background, maybe one in black and white with comic style shading... approaching an image a couple ways and forcing yourself to do stuff that you might not normally think of.
I know I keep bringing this up but pick up either a sable brush and some india ink or a Pentel brush pen and try some old school comic style inking. It is such an expressive way to work and the sheer number of was to approach making marks with that means it is fantastic for developing a style that is all yours. It is a very direct graphic style to work in, and very easy to get your point across. Go to www.linesandcolor.com and the Drawn! blog and search for ink and related tags. You'll be amazed at the variety of stuff you can do with it.
I like the drawing BTW! It reminds me of an Odd Nerdrum piece, it has a similar pose, and the theme of a pleasing subject mixed with the grotesque is similar too. I LOOOOVE Nerdrum so that is some nice company to share. =)
Originally Posted by rezo
. That said, I'd love to try inking. Most of the drawings i do have really dark bold lines, ink would just push that over the top into fabulous land. I'm low on cash at the moment but I'll definitely look into it in the future.
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