Babalon Jones
Well she isn't supposed to be but could be, as in theory she is looking at the Emperor, ready to release the bees, lol.
"It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!"
"It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!"
Here in honor of the Vernal Equinox and the new moon in Aries, is the newest card, The Emperor.
I show in this post too how the image is contructed for those of you interested in how the art gets created. The completed image is at the bottom of the post:
http://blog.rosettatarot.com/2012/0...special-feature-the-making-of-an-emperor.aspx
For Daphne:
Yes, I did change the eagle's head shape from the pencil sketch. They are both still eagle eyes/heads, but I changed the shape to be more symmetrical, as the Emperor is all about order and symmetry (symmetry from the Greek for "measure together" as in measure both sides together, and the head of the eagle is the apex of the compass with the square. Plus the compass would have been rendered harder to use with that upward point - I know as I use them all the time for artwork!). It just seemed more balanced that way in the end, and "real" eagles have their head feathers going in that direction rather than the other way which to me is more phoenix like, while I was going for eagle.
I am glad for the feedback though, for future reference, so thank you!
Bj I love your card, and i love the text and images you've given us about the steps you take. As a learning artist this helps me immeasurably.
I have a question; I've not gotten into doing any shading, crosshatching, stippling at the line art stage because I find my color covering all that up too much...so I tend to do my shading with the color it'self (which I notice you do as well as the ink shading stuff). Is this a difference in our two media? Is the india ink you are using just more transparent and so it doesn't obscure your ink as much? Maybe that's why you're using that particular media?
I love the look of the crosshatch/etc but haven't gotten into it myself...nor do I expect to on my current project cause it'd make my later pieces look out of synch with the earlier ones, and i'd have to go back and start over, and I'm a little too far in for that. Maybe next go 'round I'll be working different.
What's your experience in colorizing over ink?