Sidecar (Patreon)

The first drawing from my last Picarto stream. The theme of the evening was drawing characters as popular  drinks, beverages, cocktails, and spirits. Well Petina loves the Sidecar, so I decided to draw her sitting a sidecar drinking a sidecar.

    Since I was literally making up this piece as I going along I did a quick Google search and discovered several image of Ural motorcycle/sidecar setups and decided that was perfect for the spirit of the piece. I put Petina in a slinky Black Widow,  the Avenger not the spider, outfit. Which kind of tied things back  together with the bike since Black Widow's real name is Natasha  Romanova. Suddenly the drawing had this on-location, movie set, candid  photo quality to it.

    I had about 45  minutes to get the basic drawing down on paper during the stream, and  then using a technique I'm calling hasty shading I was able to finish  the rest of the piece today in about an 1 hour.  I'm developing hasty  shading as a way to get fast, shading techiques for quick illustrations  and commissions. The technique counts on using the shading to quickly  suggest objects, shapes, and textures without require very finished  under-drawings. I'm getting better at it.

My next stream will be 7/21/18 starting at 5:30pm Pacific.