Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Charcoal Revisit

I've decided to redo some of my digital work from last year into large charcoal drawings. The main drive is that there is a hand-drawn original that I can take around to shows, and to raise the value of the reproductions. I love the digital work I do, but agree with the art populous that digital work is not taken as seriously as hand-made work. So I'll just treat the digital works as color concepts of the final charcoal drawings that will eventually be done to replace them. Here's the 16" x 20" Charcoal version of I Tend to Overestimate:

If you're not familiar with the original Digital piece, click here. There really isn't much difference in the two. It's really surprising how much my charcoal style translates almost exactly to the Oil Paint tool I use in Corel Painter to make the digital versions.