Someone said to me that this illustration looks like a dark Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. Must be the pigtails!
Outlines are, at times, over rated. It's nice to see what happens when you take them away. How do you keep the concept of shape, depth, form? Do you lose anything? I find that, if anything, you gain more. Sometimes defining pencil and pen lines can hold back the mystery and ease of a piece of art work. Can you be too defined?
Oh dear, I am clearly feeling a wee bit philosophical.
Take this pigtailed lady above. She began as a sketch, and after a while of staring at her wondering what to do, an idea started to form. I began painting out parts her face, splashes of hair, dark pools for the eyes. And here she emerged, no outlines and all the better for it.
Odd ey. Take away boundaries of any sort and groovy things can happen.
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