It took a little longer for me to finish this drawing from my previous post (which should come as no surprise since I'm a habitual procrastinator) but I finally finished it... even if it doesn't exactly look complete. The original picture only shows a small portion of the guitar and even less of his left hand so I decided not to try and draw half a guitar. I guess I should have made it so the bottom of the page cuts it off naturally, but then there would have been all this negative space above him, which I hate. Sometimes I wonder if that's me trying to make it look good composition wise or just some random bout of OCD.Hopefully though, you can tell who it is or at least recognize him enough if you're not sure. It's Frank Zappa, contrary to what a friend of mine thought from the original pencil sketch, she said it looked like George Harrison. And actually just now I did a Google image search for George Harrison and it kind of did look like him in the 60's with the long hair and mustache. At first I thought it was a bad sign, but in the end I think it came out good.
Since I've been trying to stay away from crosshatching I thought I would just use gray tones to shade instead. For this I used 3 shades of Copic Markers since the original picture was also in black & white. I also used a Koh-I-Noor Rapidosketch drawing pen, which is my favorite drawing utensil until I finally buy their 7 piece Rapidograph pen set. I've always been hesitant to purchase the set, since it retails for about $100-150. Recently though Blick Art Supplies has the set for $60. I need to get those pens. And also these Copic Multiliner SP Pens (another $70). I think I might start selling drawings. More accessible ones though, by that I mean cheaper and smaller. I'll try to post some examples of what I mean in the future.
