A Girl Kissed a Warrior While Nutini Played Guitar And James Dean Listened

Paolo Nutini
2011

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Work in progress douple time

 

The Giant
2012
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A Kiss from the Warrior

2012
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Girl in the picture is a very good friend of mine, and we were fooling around with other friends after school while painting some posters for a bake sale to raise some money for our International Club. I can't remember how it all went, but one of us took two pieces of tape and closed her lips with it. Then a poster with a warrior head was held in front of her, placed so that it looked like their lips were together. Someone captured this moment and later I drew it. I gave this drawing to my art teacher who really inspires me plus she helped us out with the International Club. The warrior head is the mascot of the school where I was studying last year in the US.

When drawing this piece I enjoyed creating the feeling of the different textures. For example the scarf is supposed to look and feel different than the paper or the hand holding the paper. The scarf is soft, light and under the control of the person wearing it, the paper could be ripped in half just by one movement and the hand has its "own will", it's warm and able to hold the paper the way wanted. As I was drawing the leaves on the scarf I often got confused with how they were actually placed on the reference picture, so I had to kind of improvise and not follow the original photograph with total honesty. Below is a picture I took one day when drawing. These pictures may show really small in size, try to click them and they should widen.

-Ainur