Drawing for Dwelling -Stolen flowers
Say it with flowers
Today, I'm showing you the process of how I created an illustration for Chapter Four of Doug Karr's novel Dwelling. This drawing is about a pilfered bunch of flowers, stolen as a gift for a corpse.
Passing a corner bodega, Morris was drawn to a cellophane wrapped bouquet of purple daisies. He tried to stop his hand but couldn’t halt the inevitable. His fingers gripped crinkly plastic squishing the petals. They were weightless, and free, the stems dripping a line of telltale circles on the concrete. Shuffling faster, he weaved through pedestrians before the bodega clerk reemerged.
@dougkarr's novel Dwelling - Chapter Four
The Process of creating the drawing
I masked off areas I wanted to keep white, tearing the masking tape to suggest the crinkled edges of the cellophane wrapping of the flowers. I then applied layers of ink washes to build up tones, and dropped ink onto the damp paper to create areas of darker shadow.
Using drawing ink and dip pen I built up lines and details on the flowers, and lines up the cellophane cone to suggest the stalks of the flowers showing the the transparent wrapper.
Morris sped with his pilfered cone of discount blossoms.
Shame. Fear. Hope.
Hope that she wouldn’t be able to guess at how he’d gotten them… but mom always said never to arrive anywhere empty-handed.
@dougkarr's novel Dwelling - Chapter Four
You can read the 4th chapter of Doug Karr's novel Dwelling now!
Nice and original way to create an illustration...:)...
Thanks @jang :D
Lovely technique and don't you love when you use tape or fluid and remove it, it's like Christmas, "Oh what's going to be under here?"
I like your gifs with the tape and writing so clever.
Great final piece and perfect book illustration, they must be proud to have it as an addition to their story.
I'm always a little hesitant with masking fluid in case it take s the paper off- I've used it in a few of the drawings in this series though.
I know it adds that 'surprise element'. When I did more print making it always had the christmas morning quality to it, I called it, because after running the squeegee over a screen or cranking a print through the press, once you peel back to see what you have made is always a bit of surprise and not always a good one.
Look deep enough, u cld almost see ghosts. Love d work.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooo! :o
Lmao! Or is it just me? Do u see it?
Amazing job!
Beautiful flowers!
nice painting comrades, i like it
Really interesting art style, I hitted follow to see more from your artworks! great!
surprising the technique dear friend @opheliafu that you have used, the illustration is beautiful, I love this work
Thank you very much for sharing
I wish you a beautiful day
Another quality post and another great painting!
This is absolutely amazing paint thanks for sharing