Beautiful Oops

The starting point for this pice was to figure out what how to make something out of the spilled drops of ink or the "beautiful oops".  Right off the bat I saw a strand of beads in the ink drops, but I didn't know what to build around that.  I ended up deciding that the beads would be going around the side profile of a person. But what kind of person? Originally, I thought about drawing a headshot of a bride with the beads coming off the vail, but that wouldn't be related to me as an artist at all. When I was at home I looked at skeches and drawings I've done of original characters trying to get inspiration.  I did not what to just draw one of my characters foe this assignment because wanted to do something original.  I settled on drawing inspiration from a previous concept of a girl with outer space as hair. I incorporated that element of the design into the drawing while keeping the rest different.

This drawing was done on a half piece of artist paper that had previously ben splashed with ink. I used pencil to sketch out the character and background. I then used pen to outline the face, details in the hair, and shapes in the background. Finally, I used alcohol marker to color in the drawing and shade. 

When I was making this piece I had trouble with the first sketch, it just didn't look right to me. I had not drawn a side profile in a long time and instead of jumping right to the finished piece I wanted to do some warm up sketches. In my personal sketch book I drew out a few side profiles to figure out the anatomy, after that I went back to this piece with slightly more skill and confidence.