Closets do not make for good hiding places

I had come across a story on Deviant Art by a woman who goes by Bondagegirrrl. It was a pretty snazzy story of her abduction at the hands of a complete nutter. I just had to do some art for it, just had to, and this is the result.
This drawing went by relatively fast. The hardest part was finding a photo reference. There is a scene in the story where she is discovered hiding in the closet. I just thought it would make for a cool picture. I kind of wanted to do something different so I had to find references that would make for a somewhat dynamic angle.
At first I had only intended to do a sketch and then leave it for a day or two, but I just couldn't leave it be. Unfortunately I sort of rushed through the cleanup of the lines but then I started to like how it looked. The story is rather rough as things dont go very well at all for the poor heroine. The rough look of the lines sort of matches that. This really isnt meant to be a beautiful story.

Aly carnapped

Took a few weeks off from drawing before putting this one together. I've become good friends with Alysha since running into her on Deviantart. She'd kindly asked me for another drawing and as is my nature I told her I'd get around to it. Of course other things kept getting in the way or I just wasn't in the mood. Bless her heart for her patience.

Orginally she was supposed to be tied in the trunk of the car but I found that didn't work. Alysha has absolutely gorgeous feet (which I do not do justice here) and I wanted to show them. I would not have been able to do that at this angle if I had her in the trunk so instead I put her in the backseat.

One thing I did differently is that I drew the picture at full size. Usually I do the rough sketch at oh... 1000x1000 and then crop and such accordingly. After that I increase the size usually by about 250-300% for coloring and such. One of the problems with this is that the lines end up being rather thick and I dont like how that looks in a colored pic. The lineart is far less dominating here and im pleased with the result.

The big problem I ran into is what to have her wearing. As i've mentioned before I rarely plan these drawings. Usually I just have a rough idea in my head and sketch until I find something I want to work with. About the only thing I knew is that her legs and feet had to be showing. I debated between just putting her in a top, or a more secretarial look. It was Aly herself who suggested the little black dress and i love her for it.

The coloring went by much faster than I expected. I spent more time playing with the hues and such than I did actually laying the colors down. I really wanted to get a more uniform look to the color so I didn't push the contrast as much as I have in the past (see the last picture for an example of that).

Im not QUITE pleased with how the pantyhose turned out but I cant decide if that is because of the color or the lineart.

I got carried away, and then she got carried away.

Just finished this. It was done partly as another request for my new pal Aly, and as an updated profile photo. Five years ago (yeesh) I had done a quick B&W painting of a figure carrying way a woman. For the most part it ended up becoming my profile picture for yahoo.

I had kept meaning to do an updated version but kept putting it off until last week.

I wish I was actually as buff as the guy in this pic, but alas im not. Of course I wish i had a damsel over my shoulder but again... alas...

Forgot how long it took to do this, not very, at least not for me. I really need to practice drawing footwear. It's just that by the time the girls get around to 'modeling' for me they've worked their way out of their shoes!

This was done entirely in photoshop. I really should dust off painter and play around with that again...

Aly takes a turn... for the worse

This is Alysha. Poor girl was wandering in place that one such as her should not be. Went and got herself caught she did!
I usually end up doing something different everytime I do a picture. I wish I could say it was because im just some sort of avant garde genius, but really it's because I lack consitency =) The lineart took forever because I just erased from the sketch. Usually i go and retrace it for clean lines but i really liked how it looked. You can still see that it has sort of a messy ink sketch look to it and I decided to keep that.
The hard part was deciding how to color it. I went and layed down some flats and then just hit a wall. So i just started messing around till i got to this. It's not perfect by a long shot but i do like the overall look of it. I'll just call it an atmospheric piece =D
Took i dunno... 50 billion hours...