The model is me, in a series of awkward mobile phone photos patched together in a pencil sketch. I used my light box and drew a small line drawing in india ink with a dip pen (which I love only a little bit more than the light box), and did the lettering with the dip pen as well.
I scanned the ink work in and also the cover of a book by A R Hope titled Mr Dalton’s Prescription and other stories – no publication date but awarded to Norman Dellar by the Toowoomba Congregational Sabbath School in 1907. It has a lovely floral pattern on the spine, which is my main criteria for Lifeline Booksale purchases. The flowers and the texture are from the cover of the book.
The floral border is also from Mr Dalton’s Prescription. Originally it was printed in green on blue cloth, but I painted up a separate layer in Photoshop and combined them as so. The lettering was also textured and coloured with the cloth of the book cover.
Here is the first illustration filtered in Photoshop then layered back under the original ink drawing.
Comments and critiques are, as always, welcome.
This is lovely. Is she the talisman, or is the locket she’s holding the talisman?
Wow! This is brilliant! Very well done!
nicely done
I love the look on your face – a sort of peaceful concentration. Also the fingers are very graceful.
LOVE this style. Colors, composition, technique, all superb.
Wow! Now I wish I could do that! Amazing textures and color!
I like this style: like an old book cover. You sure put a lot of work into it! Nice colours and contrasts, and I like the distressed finished which ages it. I also like the expression and hands.
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So funny: I thought it looked like you before I read closer and discovered you were the model. Well done!
This is really lovely. Thank you for talking about your process–my mouth kindof drops open (I have no idea how to do anything in photoshop)–the results are marvelous.
This is really lovely! It has such great style to it. She looks like she’s about to jump out at us. Really nice work.
This is truly one of the best you have done so far, I think.
Thank you all very much for the comments!
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