Adelia takes a drink...

So this was based on a drawing I did about a year and a half ago.  I was drawing in ink and then painting directly onto my sketchbook.  It made for quite a few raggedy soggy pages.  I was working all of my images at a specific size because they would fit neatly into these small frames I had just purchased.  Well, it was an idea that never really went anywhere...but I always had this one drawing that I really liked.

I had always meant to redo it.  I really liked the feel and composition, but it was always so rough.  And, if you see any of my art (and the struggle I go through trying to keep brush strokes and texture) you'll know that everything has to be very clean.

Well (and please forgive the repost, but I was excited last week when I finally dug up this drawing and revised it)...I printed out the watercolor sketchbook piece (lowering the opacity so I could see my revised lines) and made the drawing better:

           

And, of course, I cleaned up the lines in Illustrator and then transfered it to photoshop.  

Lately I've been developing a few ideas for my next Adelia book.  I think this one will have a lot more of a painterly look to it (as painterly as I can get it using Photoshop).  And this illustration really would fit in with the current direction I'm going.