Mother's Mistake - character study
colored pencil, technical pen
I think 2004 is going to be the year of decent sketches @_@ (I hope I didn't just jinx myself!) This was most definitely a sketch, and it has a very cursory feel to it as most of my sketches do, but I actually colored this quite decently. I'm pretty proud of it for just a one hour job.
This is sort of a scene/character study--the ghost behind Phantom is his mother, who rashly gave him up to the Guardians when he was a child. For the rest of her life (she commits suicide when Phantom is about 21) she intensely regrets this decision, especially as she sees the burdens that were placed upon her son unecessarily. She tries to get in contact with him, but as he didn't know she was alive until her death, she never succeeds in reaching him. Upon her suicide Phantom discovers her myriad letters addressed to him and reads them all, and while he feels the weight of her grief, a great deal of repressed anger wells up inside him to the point where-- well, it's a major turning point in the story. I don't want to give away any spoilers more than I already have ;) This part of the story definitely merited its own (representational) color sketch, so, here it is.
As for the locket-type object they are both holding, it is also crucial to this story arc, so again I'm not going to give it away. You'll just have to keep guessing until I officially release the story!
colored pencil, technical pen
I think 2004 is going to be the year of decent sketches @_@ (I hope I didn't just jinx myself!) This was most definitely a sketch, and it has a very cursory feel to it as most of my sketches do, but I actually colored this quite decently. I'm pretty proud of it for just a one hour job.
This is sort of a scene/character study--the ghost behind Phantom is his mother, who rashly gave him up to the Guardians when he was a child. For the rest of her life (she commits suicide when Phantom is about 21) she intensely regrets this decision, especially as she sees the burdens that were placed upon her son unecessarily. She tries to get in contact with him, but as he didn't know she was alive until her death, she never succeeds in reaching him. Upon her suicide Phantom discovers her myriad letters addressed to him and reads them all, and while he feels the weight of her grief, a great deal of repressed anger wells up inside him to the point where-- well, it's a major turning point in the story. I don't want to give away any spoilers more than I already have ;) This part of the story definitely merited its own (representational) color sketch, so, here it is.
As for the locket-type object they are both holding, it is also crucial to this story arc, so again I'm not going to give it away. You'll just have to keep guessing until I officially release the story!