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This design was originally conceived
as a narcissistic something-or-other (a dog, probably) admiring him or herself in the water. It didn't end up that way, though. Click on any illustration for an enlargement. |
| The first full size sketch: Instead of the obviously psychologically-challenged case in the thumbnail, here's someone, apparently normal, putting in a contact lens. There's also the plus of the equally obvious tie-in between "contacts" and the C. |
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The final drawing, done in red for no apparent reason. It is basically the sketch with a few minor refinements. |
| Water-based
dyes are applied to be used as a base coat for the colors to come, and they cover the white of the paper where I don't want it. I'll be using colored
pencils in the next step, and I don't want to see those little flecks
of the white paper showing through where they shouldn't. |
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| The colored pencil stage, where most of the work is done. | |
| To help make sure the dog and the reflection were more easily identifiable, I let the pencil strokes define the texture of the dog dog and applied almost all the acrylic paint to just the water dog. |  |
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