2005-01-5
"Vezhimas" or "High"
A fan-art of my favourite character, Vash the 60 billion dollar man.
Made entirely in Photoshop with a mouse... I have never used a wacom, but I'm sure of one thing - painting with a mouse takes a lot of time to get it right.
I wanted to capture a moment when a very skilled guitarist/artist/artisan is doing something that is very engulfing, something so captivating, that enriches the soul. Something that you can get high from whilst at the same moment you are immensely focused on the task at hand, your mind the sharpest as it can be.
So I had a dilemma, how to draw a calm, sharp stature and an expressive act of playing together.
Needless to say, that wasn't a very successful result, as I look at it. The only way you can tell that he is playing is from the position of the hands, his stance and the background. I drew him way too calm. But I am really satisfied with this piece of work. The details are sufficient, cell-type colouring payed off, the background's nice, I like the whole feeling of the piece and it really resembles the character.