Transmetropolitan Art Book

A perfect way to start off my new blog.. Here is a 15 hour piece that I completed from scratch in two days, I jumped on board the Transmetropolitan Art Book group with a day and a half to go (during my work week, even, so I drew during my shift hours, came home, inked, scanned, blocked out the colors, slept, worked, left work early and did the colors in about 5 hours time), I was given a chance to choose from a small list of wayward characters from the book and lucked out that one of the three main characters were still left on the list. I chose to do a pinup of both Channon Yarrow, Stripper/body gaurd/Filthy assistant to Spider Jerusalem and a Foglet. In the third trade, Channon's boyfriend makes the change and I felt that would be an interesting way to integrate a character who is made of just nanobots that can materialize themselves into a pink cloud. I love drawing clouds and wifty hair, so this piece kind of fell into place. I draw many influences from Art Neuvo/Alphonse Mucha, Japanese wood block prints and traditional tattoo designs. Each take an intense amount of design skills, utilize a minimal color palet, and are not based around text, but design (using graphic elements, scrolls, and devices to fill in negative space.) I am red green color deficient so using primary colors of Pink and Yellow eased the anxiety of a full colored piece. There are 5 colors utilized- Yellow, pink, purple, blue and green. I use transparent layers to achieve a sense of depth, and had an absolute blast working out the clouds and smoke.