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Originally, I thought of having a cat on top of the piano with its paws covering its ears. Click on any illustration for an enlargement. |
| The first full size sketch. At this stage I still had the cat on top, but I had a problem with the height of the piano: Honky tonk pianos are tall. With the cat, it looks more like a spinet. Plus, since the size of the original isn't all that big, it was difficult to get the painful expression on it's face to explain what it was doing. At such a small size, the paws in the way didn't help either. |
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This stage was really nothing more than looking at some reference material and tightening up the sketch. |
| Water-based
dyes are applied as a base coat for the colors to come and to 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 white paper showing through where they shouldn't. |
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The colored pencil stage where all the work is done. |
| Honky tonkin' with some foot action a la Jerry Lee Lewis. |  |
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