Art: Hotspur and Kate

[honorat]

by Honorat
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Didn't take the photograph used for reference. Not making any money.

Summary: More Art! Hotspur shares an intimate moment with his wife, one of few in this play. She wants to know what is troubling him. Muscles! From a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1.



Copyright 2004. All rights reserved.
8 1/2 x 11 inches, mechanical graphite pencil on printer paper.

Comments

[bohemianbeauty.livejournal.com]

Excellent. They look so real. Not only their poses, but the tender things like the shading, the ribs in the cloth -- his SNEAKER. i swear i stared at that [his left foot] for the longest time because it looks so real.

love your detail, as always. fantastic.

do you start with line art?

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. One more step on my journey to becoming a human photocopier! *snerk* Oh that sneaker! I fought that thing! My reference photo was about three inches maybe. I couldn't see how it was put together. But finally I beat the thing into submission. I'm glad you like it.

I do usually competely draw these as line art. Perhaps, if I remember, I can post a sequence from start to finish some time. At the line art stage, before I've wasted time shading something that's going to look wrong, I can worry about line and angle and proportion. I did the line art for this one on at least three different pages, trying to get the right size and fit them both on it. Once the outline is done, I go back and adjust all the lines, and then adjust them again. I love my eraser. Then I'll even faintly outline all the shapes of wrinkles and shadows. They look pretty funny at that stage--sort of like paint-by-numbers. Sometimes I can't resist shading in the faces first. Faces are my favourite.

Thanks again for the feedback.

[bohemianbeauty.livejournal.com]

sounds very similar to how i do things; line art, then shade marks [if i have a reference]. and faces are my favourite too! once i get the face in, i can't wait to finish the rest. =)