Drawing for Dwelling -the key
Finding the key
Today, I'm showing you the process of how I created an illustration for Chapter Seven of Doug Karr's amazing novel Dwelling.
With another devastating cough, Dorian stumbled towards the windows and yanked up the bamboo blinds, revealing the retractable concertina grille secured to the sill. He grabbed at the padlock, suddenly panicked.
"Baby, where's the goddamn key?"
@dougkarr's novel Dwelling - Chapter Seven.
Experiments with ink and wax
Before starting the main illustration I did a few experiments with ink and wax. Candle wax was rubbed onto the key, then the key was heated with a lighter to warm the wax. The hot key was then pressed onto the paper, depositing some of the wax onto the surface. Ink was applied over the surface of the paper, this resisted the wax. Tissue was used to blot the paper and remove the excess ink, leaving an outline of the key.
Coins and Keys
For the main illustration I repeated the wax process with the key, warming the wax and pressing the key onto the paper. I then drew a series of circular shapes on the paper using the wax.
I applied layers of ink washes to the paper, allowing these to dry before applying more details.
Using drawing ink and a dip pen I applied details to the key and coin shapes. Where the wax surface was resisting the ink I scraped into the waxed surface and let the ink soak into the grooves.
Dorian grabbed at a change bowl on the far ledge and dumped it. Dropping to his knees, he fished through the nickels and dimes.
Althea knelt over in spasmodic contractions. Maybe her hardened lungs weren't so unsusceptible after all.
Dorian finally produced a key and leapt up. He tested it in the padlock, but it took solid seconds for him to realize that he was trying to push it in upside-down. Pulling apart the lock, he wrenched the grille aside.
@dougkarr's novel Dwelling - Chapter Seven.
"Baby, where's the goddamn key?"
You can read the 7th chapter of Doug Karr's novel Dwelling now!
Wow! Simple but meaningful artwork, I can imagine you now doing the real painting with acrylic on canvas. Well, I do some pixel arts too on my blog. Kindly visit my blog. Thanks.
Cool thought process behind the manual artistic process.. How did you come up with the idea on how to handle the key? :)
I was going to do a wax rubbing with the key under the paper, but after a few experiments I decided to rub the wax straight onto the key and heat it with a flame. For this piece I knew I'd be using a lot of wet ink to create a cloudy background- to represent the idea of smoke, so using a resist technique with the wax and ink seemed like a good idea.
Wow...
Very impressive work.
Thanks for sharing!
Very beautiful post man 👍🏻
I like it
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I really admire the knowledge you have of different techniques to carry out your work, you know every day. thank you very much for another beautiful gift
I wish you a beautiful night
I like to mix things up a bit when it comes to creative techniques. Thank you for your kind comments @jlufer.
I agree. Nice job
wuao good job, when the other contest opens @opheliafu
WOW. very creative. Thank you for showing your progress.
I want to try it at the first opportunity. :) I like it so much!
congratulations dear friend
How cool, thank you so much for sharing!