Redrawn: Exercise in Style Development
As an Illustrator, I constantly work on developing, improving and expanding my styles and skills and also to test and document my developments every now and then.
An interesting Exercise for this is to pick a drawing I did a long period of time ago, and redraw it in my lastest visual language. In this case, the original is based on sketches I did 20 years ago, for a cover of a comic series I was thinking of creating. I had a script and was playing with drawings, character designs and writing a sort of screenplay to plan the storytelling. The name was going to be "10 000 Masks", hinting at many things not being what they seem, and the story was weird and highly phantastical.
An interesting Exercise for this is to pick a drawing I did a long period of time ago, and redraw it in my lastest visual language. In this case, the original is based on sketches I did 20 years ago, for a cover of a comic series I was thinking of creating. I had a script and was playing with drawings, character designs and writing a sort of screenplay to plan the storytelling. The name was going to be "10 000 Masks", hinting at many things not being what they seem, and the story was weird and highly phantastical.
The character, as various others in the story, was of a very dual nature in terms of personality and role, partly antagonist, partly protagonist, and it wasn't always so clear when she was which.
So when I took the original to redraw it, I focused a lot on the black and white contrast as well as color differences to highlight their differences.
The story was never finished, but the images still exist. The style is very pleasent to work in and I loved working on her hair, vs. the original which was drawn with ink on paper and turned out far too dark for the light tone she was supposed to have. The series Redrawn is quite fun as well. It's interesting to see where you have grown, and what you have to improve still.
