Ms. Piceous

     I’ve been trying to get these up for awhile now, but life keeps getting in the way.  So, here they are.

     Like the previous picture, this one is based off of a picture of Chante Moore, from a picture of her inside the “Exposed” album cover.  It’s another piece that I used to fill my portfolio years ago, to advertise for illustration work.

     So now, here, I started illustrating what would be the updated digital version of the picture.  Obviously, the arms are more visible, as if the chest.  I had planned to make this a picture of a woman in a scarf with dreadlocks, but I decided to make it an afro.  I later changed it again into a head wrap with a scarf at the base.  The shirt came from a typing “women‘s shirts” into Google image search, and picking the one I thought worked best.

     Here’s the final version.  I finished everything up and created the background separately, combining them together in the end.  At first, I couldn’t get the left hand the way I wanted.  I erased it and redid it over and over, until I finally got something acceptable.