I remember when I first heard the opening riff of Ziggy Stardust. It felt like I just stepped into strange, alien world that somehow felt like a home I never new I belonged in. The uncanny weirdness and undeniable charisma of David Bowie’s alter ego is what I’ve tried to capture in this drawing.
After laying out the pencils, I then inked onto a sheet of vellum placed over the pencils. Final color and shading was added using markers and a little bit of colored pencils for accents. Below I’ve included a couple of shots of this piece in progess that I originally posted last week on Twitter while I was working on it.
Pencils:
Inks:
I love it – the color is amazing
awesome!!!!!
cool, man. cool man!!!
so i know this is going to sound like such a noob question but, do you use a light board when transfering to the vellum?
@Roland – I do use a light box once in a while, but the vellum is translucent like tracing paper, so I can see through to the pencil layer below pretty easily without it. I find the vellum takes the ink nicely, though it is easy to smudge the ink, so one has to be careful.
Really cool stuff. I’m really happy to see that there are really great artist that can appreciate other awsome artists work and not bash them for their success! ^^