I’m currently working on a commissioned artwork. Without
giving too much away, it’s for the cover a self-published science fiction novel
(I’m not clear on what the etiquette is when talking about someone else’s
work).
Even as I write about having being commissioned I’m thinking of my dad
saying, “Self-praise is no recommendation”, because it’s a certain sort of
person who goes on and on about how successful they are on social media, and I
have been known to bag people like that out (which may be the understatement of
the century). I wasn’t going to mention it at all except that it’s the only
artwork that I’ve been doing for the past three weeks, so it’s this or nothing.
So, I was doing some sketches while I was trying to figure
out what to do exactly and I ended up with a figure drawing that turned out
well enough to use except that it was way too small:
I used a scanner to make a digital copy, blew that up a few
times and posterised it:
Right now I’m redrawing the black sections of the image as a
circuit board pattern by hand, which turned out to be a lot trickier than I’d
expected. ALL of the lines have be perfectly straight and parallel. ALL OF
THEM. I guess that anything worth doing is tricky.
