I wanted to draw something that represented the sort of decay required for growth. A garden and graveyard are basically the same place with different PR teams.
This is the drawing that made me stop choosing between paper and iPad and start mixing the two.
Turns out you can do both. Who knew?
But fr, I was far too proud of that hand to risk ruining it and adding more on paper. The entire process was born of vanity towards one excellent hand skeleton.
So instead of pushing my luck, I photographed it on the iPad and kept going from there.
I outlined the white parts in a thin orange pen so they’d stay untouched, then traced the outer border too. After that, it’s just drag-and-drop the black into the line, followed by a truly unreasonable amount of cleanup. Erasing ink-bleed, adding bits, taking bits away, nudging things until they feel right.
Eventually, I decided to tempt fate and add a skull. I’m incredibly proud of that skull. Look at it. Doesn’t it feel skull-like? Doesn’t it give you Vibes?
And then I added a lil’ background, some colors. badabing badaboom.
Oh look! The shop is open! So you can find Decay here.