Illustration Friday: Flavour
One Dozen Flavours, (c) Brad Reid 2005 ^,1,2,3,4,5
Think of this as the shorter, edited version of what was previously posted at this url, the most difficult post for me so far. Despite its apparent simplicity, One Dozen Flavours, presented ‘live’ as a work-in-progress here at bradreid.com, had an arduously prolonged development.
What the problem came down to was a failure to follow my own advice. As someone working in the theatre might say, “if it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage,” so too I told myself that everything that can be accomplished in pencil, should be accomplished in pencil. Yet, if you look to the earlier process links under the illustration you will find that my original sketches were indeed underdeveloped. (Certainly nothing fit for presentation to an art director.) Given such a poor start, it should not have been unexpected that throughout the inking and colouring process, when I should have been primarily concerned with embellishing and drawing out my illustration, I was instead preoccupied with making repairs.
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Much to my relief (and more than a little surprise), with its latest, small repairs, I now count One Dozen Flavours as a marginal-to-fair success, a satisfying step above the marginal failure that it was at stage five.
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Next time I really should follow my own advice.
January 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 am
Please note: due to technical difficulties, some of the comments to this post were accidentally deleted. I hope that no one feels slighted.
January 3rd, 2006 at 3:25 pm
you are such a pro!
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:28 pm
“thank you very much,” he says, gratefully accepting the compliment and wondering who anon could be.
January 4th, 2006 at 7:58 am
it really is coming along. this is kind of exciting… watching your progress could get addictive. I think you are on to something here showing it in stages. oops. i forgot the link. that’s pretty funny brad. maybe you could write your entire blog in the third person. very film noir. (^;