I am so very glad you commented, belated or not, and it's actually very coherent. Or at least, I think it is. :D All those things you mentioned- every one - was something I thought about and pondered and agonized over. I am so happy to know that you not only saw those things, but that you recognized them and they spoke to you!
Colin... oh, how I love Colin. And this Colin, unsure of himself for the first time in a long time, I wanted him to be engaging us, to be giving us that LOOK, so we would be involved in that feeling of conflict; that's why he's the only one of all of them to be looking AT US. To be honest, I hadn't really thought about WHY I wanted his hair mussed, but I really wanted it messy. Thank you for reducing that irrational insistence of my subconscious into something coherent. :-)
Bradley's face, as we all know, is amazingly expressive. The trick is to get him NOT emoting wildly! That said, I did want to show that amazing way he has of using his WHOLE face to express an emotion.
And Richard, dear Richard. I really wanted to capture that sparkle that Richard has when he's pleased but not quite openly laughing, and it's a subtle combination of how he sets his eyes and eyebrows and his mouth (especially the rumples in his chin); it took a few tries and a bit of fiddling to get there. And "dignified joy" was exactly what I was aiming for!
Last but not least, the lovely Rupert; this was my first official excuse to draw him. I'm so glad I did! His face is so very different from Colin's or Bradley's, but so very very lovely to draw. The eternal struggle with eyes is getting the light into them, and a lot of that is showing how the light strikes the iris through the curve of the lens. The payoff when you get it right is worth all the fiddling. :D
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Date: 2012-11-18 08:03 am (UTC)From:Colin... oh, how I love Colin. And this Colin, unsure of himself for the first time in a long time, I wanted him to be engaging us, to be giving us that LOOK, so we would be involved in that feeling of conflict; that's why he's the only one of all of them to be looking AT US. To be honest, I hadn't really thought about WHY I wanted his hair mussed, but I really wanted it messy. Thank you for reducing that irrational insistence of my subconscious into something coherent. :-)
Bradley's face, as we all know, is amazingly expressive. The trick is to get him NOT emoting wildly! That said, I did want to show that amazing way he has of using his WHOLE face to express an emotion.
And Richard, dear Richard. I really wanted to capture that sparkle that Richard has when he's pleased but not quite openly laughing, and it's a subtle combination of how he sets his eyes and eyebrows and his mouth (especially the rumples in his chin); it took a few tries and a bit of fiddling to get there. And "dignified joy" was exactly what I was aiming for!
Last but not least, the lovely Rupert; this was my first official excuse to draw him. I'm so glad I did! His face is so very different from Colin's or Bradley's, but so very very lovely to draw. The eternal struggle with eyes is getting the light into them, and a lot of that is showing how the light strikes the iris through the curve of the lens. The payoff when you get it right is worth all the fiddling. :D
And I'm tickled that you liked the knot too. <3