nettles (a wildboi)

For the second series of WildBois.  I have one left to finish.  This guy's pose, as with all the other WildBois, was based on observed insect behavior.  I was scripting DENIZEN in a li'l park in Decatur, as was my habit, and this guy was at my elbow, doing some kind of insect yoga.  He stayed still long enough for me to finish sketching.  Nice of him.

As far as colour, this is another instance of OCD overriding my common sense.  That's happened with several in this set: the colours should be one thing and instead I did another, in a king-hell sprint for a self-imposed finished line.  I swear.  Whoever heard of a pink grasshoppper?  And on yellow paper, no less.

Too late now.

statuesque - w.i.p.

More rare paper.  This piece was based on a statue I encountered at the Lake Claire land trust, near Atlanta.  The owl in the buddha's hand was a small stuffed toy, and the statue was perhaps less, er, ripped, but I tried to stay true to the feeling the li'l guy gave me when I first saw it.  The land trust was a good place to work.  I wrote quite a bit of AZURE PANTRY and DENIZEN there.

I've considered doing some graytones or painting on this, but I'm too attached to the finished inks on this guy to risk botching it.  When I say attached, I mean, inking the owl brought me tears of joy.  Not an ordinary reaction for me, as anybody who knows me knows I generally loathe my work.  So this will be printed as it stands.  It's valuable, for reasons I can't quite articulate.

I'm pretty proud of the leafy debris surrounding the buddha.  I'm glad I kept the essence of the original pencils.  It was a very delicate job, and I probably agonized over line weight more than was necessary.  But it all felt necessary?  I dunno.  Maybe the traumatic brain injury I received after penciling this shook something loose in my soul.  It's one of the first finished inking jobs I pulled off after recovering full use of my right hand.

Post title notwithstanding, this isn't really a work in progress anymore.  But it isn't Done until I print the damned thing, is it?