Swing

So I decided that since one of my 'goals' for my holiday was to redesign my website, I figured that some of the art I'm doing should go towards this.

Here's a bit of a planned background image, I'm quite enjoying the colours but I'm still working on her hair. Hair is one of those things that you can get right first time with not much effort, but if I don't it takes me aaaages to get it doing that effortless flowing thing.

The guy from 'drawing the head' (very good instructional book on chiaroscuro should you be interested) says that the less hair is rendered the better it looks, and in essence you should try to render it like smoke.

Well, I guess I'm going for the bold look. Here's a snippet.