Typically, The Whole Idea For A Painting For Me Springs From The Lighting And The Color Scheme More Than

Typically, the whole idea for a painting for me springs from the lighting and the color scheme more than anything else. So I usually start with a really strong, very singular idea as far as those elements, then have to come up with what.. well, the subject even is. That wasn't the case with this, and it was really disorienting trying to work in a way that felt backwards as a result.

I'd like to say I went with the one I did because it presented really strong value contrast and shape definition but that'd be a reaaaaally big lie~.

Senshistock, fashion photos from assorted magazines, and warm-ups.

Since A Memory of Light is coming out Tarmon Gai'don is tomorrow I decided to draw Egwene because she is actually the best character in the entire series and if you don't agree you can just go away. (Unless your argument is that Tuon is better, at which point I will concede that I like the cut of your jib.)

For a while I've had an idea for a story about gen Y, escapism, and how those interact with a generational coming-of-age into a culture and economy that was really only looking for cheap and homogeneous labor.

It's a weird visit down the rabbit hole that I came up with at a point in my life when I wasn't sure if it wouldn't be easier to never come home from Oz, if you know what I mean. And really, that's the central conflict of the whole thing - if you have a magical world to save, what do you gain by coming home to living in a dirty apartment with a menial job and debt and depression? But the plot isn't necessarily important to drawing pictures of it for emotional catharsis.

I'm probably going to do more pictures from the idea, now that I've started drawing some out they're kind of addictive since the aesthetic ended up stuck somewhere in the vicinity of "shoujo manga directed by jj abrams."