Dead or Alive...

After having a chat with ~loucat (one of my mentors) about my previous piece, he suggested I try doing something in charcoal. Much as charcoal is lauded and hailed as being a great medium by most, I absolutely can't stand it. It's just too messy, and I get very finicky while using it. To remedy this, ~loucat made me a copy of a Photoshop brush preset that he uses which emulates the look and feel of charcoal. That is something I will happily use!

This is the first work (other than a quick two-minute 'test' drawing) I've done. It's inspired by a fairly well-circulated image of Samus Aran of Metroid fame, but with a bunch of random changes thrown in. I'd be lying if I said there weren't some element of storm/clonetroopers from Star Wars thrown into the mix.

Done in Photoshop over the course of about an hour.

(I added the text at the last minute, just to be silly. )