the Twirl

I feel it’s also a little to easy to fall into one’s usually safety nets when working on assignments. On this piece, in order to push myself, I laid out a few ground rules before I started thumbnailing; no mater what the conceptual direction, my illustration would include at least three people and a complex background.

And so it is, with at least three people and a background, this concept for this piece is based on the word ‘Twirl’. The theme for this piece is grounded in the hair twirl. The underlying idea for this piece based on body language – the flitting hair twirl, the ‘social mirroring’, and the couple who are obviously disinterested in each other.

My sketch for this started off really rough while I worked out the composition.

From there I cleaned things up a bit before blocking in some color.

Then the next step is to destroy everything and paint over, then paint over again and again until many hours later, voila! except for some details to make it pop, it’s finished.

As always, I’m just trying to experiment and to learn something new. Comments and feedback are always welcome.