Hi folks! This week of Mr Owl started on the 30th of January 2017. And this time, we didn’t see much more than a feather off of our main character…
MONDAY
The Lady is really pissed after Mr Owl laughed at her. “How dare he make fun of me?”, She thinks.
TUESDAY
Please use your imagination here.
WEDNESDAY
The Lady decided to dissolve her anger in a pint. “Yes I’m a woman drinking alone in a pub. So what?”, She thinks.
THURSDAY
The Lady noticed that some men were looking at her funny. “What’s the matter with you?”, she says
FRIDAY
Some bloke made a comment that I can’t disclose here, for decency’s sake. The Lady is going to make him regret what he just said “You picked the wrong person to insult!!!”, she screams.
SATURDAY
After she broke a chair and two arms, The Lady literally got kicked out of the pub. “For a moment I thought I was flying, must feel good to be a bird…”, she thinks
SUNDAY
The Lady finally calmed down. In the dark alley where she’s been thrown off, she finds an owl’s feather lying on the ground. “Maybe I went too far today…”, she thinks
I have mixed feelings about this week. I’m very happy that I tried something new : for the first time I showed the story from another point of view, that of The Lady. The problem with this character is that she’s human, and it requires a lot more time and focus to get postures and proportions right. If an eye is a little bit off, we end up in the uncanny valley, and that wasn’t where I was heading this week. Besides, some drawings I redrew a few times. On Tuesday I started with this :
Then I had to go to work, and thought “okay I’m going to finish it when I come back”… Except I came back at 2 a.m, and – weirdly enough – didn’t feel like finishing it anymore. Then the next day I finished it, or should I say, started again from scratch.
I’m quite happy with the result, I think the composition is far more interesting. Just the hand / arm in the foreground looks a bit weird.
Same thing happened on Friday :
First I wanted to do a profile view
But then I thought that a foreshortening on the bottle would be more compelling. And… I thought this looked way too violent. I’m not against showing violence in general, but I felt it stepped too far outside the series. So she grabbed a chair instead of a bottle, which I feel is more spontaneous, like her reaction.
That’s about it for this week. I won’t draw next week, I have too much on my plate to keep the series going this time around… Sorry.
Take care of yourselves!
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