I’d tell you what
she’s doing, but then I’d have to kill you.
Actually, that’s a
lie. (And besides, I’m rather tired of killing people.) This is a bit of
concept art I’ve done for the faerie-tale I’m working on. And since it’s just
concept art, it’s not an actual illustration and therefore gives away just
about nothing.
Which means that I
can tell you what she’s doing:
holding a spindle. Basically every person who has seen this has asked what on
earth she’s holding. I would be irritated—except that I actually had to look up
what a spindle looked like myself before I sketched this picture. Which is
highly embarrassing, since a spindle has been a pivotal symbol in my story for
years now.
In any case, she’s
the wicked witch, the bad guy of my story, and below are some detail shots:
From a technical
standpoint, I uplit her face a bit. Not completely, because I got impatient and
didn’t want to spend more hours blocking out all of her face, her shoulder, her
arm, and her hand. But I did add a hint of uplighting, with those shadows on
her cheeks, her nose, the curve of her shoulder, and so on, in attempt to add a
touch of wildness, even a trace of a nightmare.
And on that
nightmarish vein, I shrank her pupils to very tiny points of blackness in very
light eyes. That’s because years ago, for a play my dad was in, he wore white
contacts. I mean, contacts that whited out his entire eyes except for his
pupils. The results were the scariest two eyes I have ever seen in my life. (My
dad was playing somebody frightening, to say the least. And he did a fantastic
job.) Anyways, though I haven’t ever actually used all-white eyes like that, since
then I’ve kept it in mind that small dark pupils, plus as much light/white
space as possible, tend to look wilder than darker eyes with bigger pupils
(which, in turn, tend to look softer).
Technically, as
far as the story goes, the bad girl in my drawing isn’t exactly wearing makeup,
but as a sometimes-partly-kind-of-cosmetic-artist, I did specifically pay
attention to the makeup
she’s wearing, especially around her eyes. As you can see above, she’s wearing
thick eyeliner sweeping out in “wings” at the corners of her eyes. That I did
first, afterwards moving into the medium-tint “eyeshadow” covering her upper
eyelids and then the dark-tint “eyeshadow” in the creases of her eyelids.
Finally, I went back with a darker pencil and added her eyelashes with mascara
in mind. She’s also wearing very dark “lipstick.”
And final note, I
just used pencils I found scrounging around the house. Actually I convinced my
nine-year-old brother to let me use one of his pencils because I couldn’t find
mine. But that’s another embarrassing situation.
Anyway, that’s a
little discussion on my personal wicked witch.
*insert villainous
laugh here*
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