Brian Ewing ([info]ewingbrian) wrote,
@ 2008-08-22 14:40:00
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SUICIDE FOR SALE


The poster I designed of MEOW, is now available. Only a limited number of prints are signed by Meow and myself. The remaining are just signed by me. Sucks...I know wink

18x24 matte cougar paper ltd 400 pcs And it's an official SG print.

AVAILABLE HERE





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[info]tormentedartist
2008-08-23 12:57 am UTC (link)
I love how you drew the hands. How did you end up doing this ? Did she ask you ? Or did you ask her ? Also did she pose for you or did you do a likeness based on a lot of different pictures ?

Thanks !

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[info]ewingbrian
2008-08-23 02:17 am UTC (link)
It was a mutual thing between the Suicide Girls and 3 artists = Andrew Bawidamann, Rich Black and Me.
They were going to be sharing booth space with all of us so I suggested we each do an art print of the model of our choice. Bawidamann went with Chloe, Black went with Posh and I went with Meow. I worked it out with Missy and that's basically how it went down.
I went through her photo sets and cobbled together the reference. I grabbed the head off of one photo but the eyes from another and the hair somewhere else. The rest I did with my own reference.
I geek out on hands. A friend of mine used to get on me for drawing rubbery dead hands so I've been working harder to make them look good and expressive.

I don't normally hafta nail a likeness so this poster drove me nuts. Bawidamann schooled me on drawing women and how the make up can bring a piece together. I finished coloring it in a van on my laptop enroute to the comic con.

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[info]tormentedartist
2008-08-23 05:06 am UTC (link)
Thanks dude. I also HATE nailing likenesses. The easy route which many great artists take like *cough* robert crumb *cough* is just to copy a photo. Good for practice but ultimately lame. Again I'm loving this.

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[info]ewingbrian
2008-08-23 09:17 pm UTC (link)
Well that's kinda what I was doing. In the end I don't think anyone cares how you draw it as long as it looks like the person. The Crumb stuff (to me at least) is more of an exercise in technique. I wish I could use a pen like that guy. Also at this point he can do as he pleases.

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[info]e_apollo
2008-08-23 02:25 am UTC (link)
awesome poster. it came out really well and the idea is even neat for a booth-sharing group.

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