Here's Another

It's the Easter long weekend here in Australia (we get the Friday and the Monday off, so it's 4 days of bliss for moi), so I thought I'd waste an evening doing another illustration.  Hopefully I'll get a chance to colour it in the next week or so!

Guy-girl-car

Every now and then, I like to point out that most of my illustrative work these days - at least the stuff that is vaguely anatomically correct - is from photo reference.  I point it out purely because I feel awkward when people compliment me for my work, under the impression that it's 100% mine.  And it's simply not.  Illustration isn't something I have enough time in my life to focus on, and I'm simply not going to spend what little time I have available on learning foreshortening and perspective and all that other wonderful jazz.  For me, it's all about the end product - not how I arrived at it.  And as far as I'm concerned, most of the time my end product is unique enough in its own right that the methods I used to get there are, well, not irrelevant, but certainly not important to me. 

Here's the grabs I threw together to create a starting point.

Guy-girl-car_original

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So there you are.  I hope you enjoy my work, and I hope you'll be as carefree about my methods as I am.