DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A bedamseled ROSE added (with some difficulty) to earlier Connery sketch!
Added 2023-05-22 13:00:07 +0000 UTCLast week, I posted another Life Drawing image of Sean Connery from an especially striking James Bond photo of yore. Wellp, as a further Clip Studio Paint experiment intended to fill out another Distressed Damsels slot, I expanded the canvas a tacked on a new CSP layer attempting to add an image of a bedamseled Rose to the portrait.
Wellp, my first stab at this concept introduced a mostly decent Rose sketch, as I tried out a rather more (ahem) "realistic" approach to rendering her disheveled mop of red hair. Here's the finished result:
Alas, at first the scale on the Rose image in relation to the Connery Bond was visibly very far off, so I began trying to rotate her artwork to compensate. Here's the original version of the combo illo, with Bond and Rose separated:
Next up, a rotation one way:
...then the other:
Yes, folks, I blew an obnoxious amount of time trying to determine whether a lean forward or a lean back conveyed more "damsel energy."
Complicating the issue was the fact that I didn't want to lose the view of Rose's prominent rack whilst messing with relative scale between 'em. Here's a compromise version with a shorter Rose:
Ah, but then I looked up the actual heights involved! Connery was actually 6' 2" (per a quick and quite possibly inaccurate search), while canonically the original Kei was 5" 6" or so; note that she's supposed to be an inch taller than Y*ri/ Lily, but I never bothered to differentiate their heights in my take on Dirty Pair.
So, here's a more height-accurate mockup of the illo:
...which would, of course, feature a complete obscuring of our damsel's bounteous boobage that would be entirely unacceptable. (Oh, well.)
Anyway, before long I was heartily sick of this g-d illo, so I was quite happy to pull the plug on the piece and move on with my life. Ah, but you fine $5+ folks will eventually be seeing one last post on this Bond/ Rose riff down the road, as I did some quick sets of manikin-based sketches depicting how our struggling heroine wound up in this state. Yay?
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, as to what might be coming up in our next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?
Comments
I'm tempted to say Sean Connery Bond as seen in You Only Live Twice might be a little more in your original stylistic wheelhouse but I do quite like the work you've done here
Steven W
2023-05-23 00:21:35 +0000 UTCEven with the 'reality upscale', Rose still has a different texture than Bond. Can't be helped, I guess. FWIW, I think 'leaning back' looks more damsel-y.
Strypgia
2023-05-22 16:11:53 +0000 UTCLovely art, to be sure.
Eric
2023-05-22 15:41:27 +0000 UTCNICE
Greg
2023-05-22 13:44:05 +0000 UTCI think you swapped Kei and Yuri's heights; the original light novel has Kei at 171cm, or 5 foot 7 and a bit, and Yuri at 168cm, or right about 5 foot 6. W/regards to the Kei/Yuri difference, I believe your official line was that they had "identical somatotypes" in your version and thus were the same height and build, unless you take the Flatiron magazine table where you used the light novel measurements as canon. So, if you wanted to show bahonkadonkers, you could round Kei up to 5'7.5" or 5'8", add a bit for taller shoes and assume that Sean Connery's listed height includes some Hollywood fudge factor for vanity and make him like 6'1".
Burninator
2023-05-22 13:20:17 +0000 UTC
