Monday, November 16, 2009

Sub Rosa



A thing I did for a gallery show in Germany held by Rotopol Press. I figured I'd post it here as well as on my blog, since I know a few of you doodlershits are in it, too.

6 comments:

Aaron Rossell Illustration said...

the rose, a nice touch. What mysterious happenings...

Kenny Callicutt said...

whats the narrative? Maybe at a subtle suggestion of footprints?

Andrew R. Wright said...

This is cool as hell Sam!

I agree about the footprints though. It would add a nice little detail, breaking up all of the verticals.

Not that it matters, but is this digital or gouache? I only ask because there is some nice splatter and subtle color-in-color going on that, to me, seem like they would be hard to produce digitally.

My dream is to have that gentleman's stache. It is a beautiful thing...

Sam Bosma said...

Haha...jeez. The footprints. They're in my sketch, they're in my digital comp...and I just fucking forgot them in the final. I went nuts when I remembered, but I've already sent the image to the gallery! So it goes, I guess.

I suppose the dudes might have brushed them away for secrecy's sake.

It's digital under a pencil drawing, and 90% of the digital process was creating subtleties in the open spaces of color. I wish I was confident and competent enough with my traditional painting skills to do it all by hand, but I am most certainly not. Thanks for the comments, guys.

Lamar Mathurin said...

love these simple shapes. this is pretty nice! keep it up!

Jared Fiorino said...

This is great man! Love it. Footsteps would've been nice.