With these sketches I tried to avoid hard outlines. Derwent pencils on cartridge paper, A4 size.
Album cover image sourced from The Retro Spector.
The movie Cadillac Records (2008) chronicles the rise of Chess Records in 1950′s Chicago. R&B artist Beyoncé Knowles plays the blues singer Etta James. These sketches are inspired by both Beyoncé and the even more extraordinary looking (and sounding) Etta.
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Great sketches Eddy. You have a nice mixture of both straight and curvy lines. Nice rendering too, what inks did you use for these ones?
Hi Erin,
Thanks for your comment. I just used my Faber Castell Pitt pens. some of them are almost out of ink but give an interesting scratchy line.
For the bold outlines i used a Pentel brush pen.