fanart, Junkie!Roy

[ratcreature]

Fandom: DCU (Green Arrow)
Characters/Pairings: Roy Harper (back when he was Speedy)
Media used: Wacom tablet in GIMP
Rating/warnings: PG, I guess, for drug use
Notes/comments: This took me a really long time, and I don't just mean that I first had the idea for this in 2006. I have no idea what I am doing wrong that digital coloring takes me so long, isn't it supposed to be efficient? I suppose it's one of the pitfalls of being self-taught. Anyway, it's Roy during the famous heroin addict story line. As always, feedback is very welcome.
Preview:



And two details showing parts of the image in the original size/resolution. (I drew it at 3100x2540px.)

Comments

[ratcreature]

Thank you, I'm glad you like it, and that the tragedy comes across. I wanted to show him as he hits his the lowest point.

As for his face, I'm not sure, I had some trouble with it, and tried just making it vaguely okay to me and then stopped. I think the oddness you notice may be that I might not have gotten the foreshortening of the head to really match with the rest of the body. I mean, there is quite a bit of foreshortening from that perspective, so the lower half of his face/head should be larger in absolute terms to look right, but I'm not sure I did enough of that, but may have balked out in favor of drawing facial expression more like I know without noticing.

And yeah, practice... I'm such a lazy sloth though. *g*