Today was the last day of class, and like most of my “last days” it was a deadline day. The students hand in their work (or use the last class time to finish up and mat projects) and then go home. Not much for me to do but oversee the class, review sketchbooks, and draw in my own sketchbook a bit. The picture here is the result of my doodles. Oddly enough, the reference shot is a picture from my “Owned” file. This girl has an unusual beauty that inspired me to jump off the deep end and do some steampunk daydreaming. Like most of my jump off points it is not meant to be a portrait, but still … something about her smirky smile that just wants to be empowered as a take-care-of-business heroine.

A note to self: Because I sort of just jumped in without thinking about it, I drew this as a low res file. By the time I realized what I was doing, I was too far in. so this is a web only shot sorry to say. I need to pay more attention to file sizes in my digital drawings.