| WHOAAA!!... | |
 |
This design was originally conceived
as an A more than 4 years ago. I didn't need another A, but I did
need a W, and I thought I saw one here. Click on any illustration for an enlargement. |
| The first full size sketch. I didn't have, and couldn't find, reference for pigs galloping right at you. I messed around but wasn't getting it. |
 |
 |
I finally, 4 years later, got to work and got an acceptable drawing. I tried, on several occasions, to get to this stage, but was never able. This time I just kept struggling through it. At the time this letter was finished, it was Letter No. 62--and (up till then) the most difficult of all. |
| Water-based
dyes are applied to cover the white of the paper. I'll be using colored
pencils in the next step, and I don't like to see those little flecks
of the white paper showing through. |
 |
| The colored pencil stage...there are a lot of layers in this illustration. It wouldn't have hurt me if I'd remembered that this letter's caption is "Whoaaa!!". | |
| During this final stage of painting with acrylics, I added the whites and yellow-whites to punch up the highlights...and I'm finally done. Yay! |  |
| Top of the page | |
