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Tried an ink-washy kind of style, in honour of the Deviant-deadlines theme which which this week was to "try some thing new".
A speedpaint quickie, it's sort of refreshing to use this more "loose" style of simple shadowing.

Krita, some GIMP, took little more than an hour or so.
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Griatch

Really nice.

I almost feel like I know your lady. She shows up in your art work a lot and she has a warm, familiar feel to her.

I love the shadowing on it, very nicely done.

You ought to quit Astronomy and start making buckoo bucks with your art Griatch because you would. Very much like this graphic novel feel to this result.

love this style and you do it very well

griatch: mycket vackert! this is a style i've always loved and i agree with everyone else that you do it very well. fantastic work on the shading and i love the feeling in the picture.

I like this style! You have preserved your normal style's vividity in this more crisp rendering style! This kind of style can be too clinical, but no sign of that here!

Beautiful work. I like the style too. I think the angle of the mouth and nose need adjusting a little though.

Thanks for the comments! I'm glad this style seems to have worked, despite (or maybe because of) being a quickie.


I didn't aim for this to be any of my usual cast but I guess the feel of her nevertheless turned out somewhat familiar.


It -is- sort of comic-y isn't it. I don't think I'd quit my day job just yet though.


It's certainly true that hard blacks can tend to be a bit harsh to the eye. I rarely find it "clinical" myself though, rather I can find it somewhat messy if the white areas are not left large enough. The most difficult part of this style is really the negative areas (the white's) and knowing what the heck to leave out.


Thanks for the pointer! I did a slight shift of her nostril (take a look). But otherwise I think the shadowing is easily confusing the eye here, it makes it look like the nose is more turned to the left than it is. it's the problem of chooseing to only use one level of gray shading; one really needs many more to correctly represent the three-dimensional form of the nose ridge from this angle.
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Griatch

I see what you mean. You've done a great job anyway.

I'm sure there's a lot for me to learn about best use of a style like this and what looks good or not when it comes to shadowing.

Excellent work Griatch. Though your art no matter the style always is.