I totally recommend this course – it’s so much fun, and thought-provoking. Who would’ve thought you could make up a comic round this week’s theme “Getting Dressed”?!
The panes show me as a small kid trying on hand-me-down clothes my Nana used to send. They were all ghastly and too big – Nana got them from another grandmother, whose granddaughter Alison was held up to me as the model of all that was wonderful in little girls. Needless to say I wasn’t a big fan of Alison – her clothes or her reputation – I always felt I must be inferior to her in everything!
However, ten years later history showed otherwise after I sat my ‘O’ levels and did much better than Alison, much to mine and my Nan’s delight! 🙂 Not that O levels prove much, but it made me feel l wasn’t inferior to her in everything after all… (A bit of a life lesson about not comparing yourself negatively to others when you barely know them.)
The first two pictures are pencil roughs, a first version. In the three ink images I’m having a go at adding a bit more “character” to the line – to do this I used indian ink and a bbq stick! (NB I find that if I use a ‘weird’ drawing tool it tends to slow me down and make me think about the line more.)
I’ll post the rest of the ink images when they’re finished 🙂
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