fanart, Bob (Dresden Files bookverse)

[ratcreature]

Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Characters/Pairings: Bob
Rating: G
Media used: pencil drawing, then inked, colored and various digital effects/textures added with Wacom tablet and GIMP
Warnings: None
Notes: I based it on a description from chapter six of Proven Guilty: "Other books, notebooks, envelopes, paper bags, pencils, and apparently random objects of many kinds crowd each other for space on the shelves--all except for one plain, homemade wooden shelf, which held only candles at either end, four romance novels, a Victoria's Secret catalog, and a bleached human skull." I used an actual Victoria's Secret catalog cover to base my drawing of that catalog on and referenced bits from a couple of other photos via a google image search but only the catalog cover is directly traced as a whole, though the skull is close to this skull image. Oh and the Harlequin romance titles are real too, though I can't actually remember whether I matched the right authors with their titles as I created the book spines.
Preview:



If you want to look at it in the original size I created it, I uploaded the high resolution picture, but that is really large, i.e. 300dpi at DIN A4 size version, 1325kb.


ETA: I have written some commentary on how I've drawn this picture.

Comments

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

It's great!

Granted, I'm not much of an art critic, but I enjoy the suggestion of both lechery and squishy-softness--as if Bob might've asked to be placed there, for the view.

I can't draw at all, so I'm always amazed when anyone else can. The only images I can produce are by rubbing words together.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. And yeah, I definitely imagined that he'd want some view of boobs even from within his skull. Though I'm not quite clear how a disembodied spirit "reads" his porn material anyway...

[morchades.livejournal.com]

I love it! More! More!

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

I'm afraid I'm not fast or prolific when it comes to fanart, but I do have other DF ideas.

[soapbox-solo38.livejournal.com]

I just finished racing through the series (stop reading to sleep? Never!) and this is a perfect touch. :) Well done!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

I wandered over here from the header discussion on penknife's journal, and just want do tell you how awesome I think this is. I love Bob's expression, the shading and the sort of perky warmth the image conveys. It's very Bob.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! It's great to hear you liked it.

[eiyria]

Wow. This is really really impressive work. Where in the world did you learn how to draw, ink, and color like that?!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! And I don't have any formal art training, I'm self-taught with tutorials and books and such.

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

Marvelous!

Here via the rec at DW's fanart_recs.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

This is awesome! (coming from an old rec)

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it.