I started by using ink to play around with line quality. I liked the thick and fluid lines you could create by using ink and the right type of brush and I thought that this technique would work well with the old timey aesthetic I wanted to make.
Because I was pretty bad at drawing proportional bodies I started using a media that I would be able to go over multiple times so that I didn't have to get it correct the first time round. I really liked the layering of the different colours, and using colours that didnt really go together to create contrast.
My sketching led me onto the idea that everything women do is sexualised, I intend to do more research to find academic opinions on this subject but I started writing up a list of things that I thought could be sexualised that arent initially sexy.
Here I was practicing drawing more realistic looking anatomy by looking some reference images, I found this useful because I wanted to the style of this work to be a mixture of both stylised and realistic.
I then took some of my own reference images of different facial expressions, using some of the list of everyday activites that I wanted to include in my comic.
Here I started doing initial skecthes for my first idea, of creating two opposing comics about over sexualised women, one would be a 'normal' woman waking up and doing her normal morning routine, and the other would be a woman who wakes up into an extremely over sexualised morning routine.
I really liked the combination of these colours, Ive really enjoyed working with coloured pencils lately, because you can create really soft textures and it is easy to get a neat and controlled line quality too.
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