Jerry Hall ***Final***

Jerry Hall watercolor

thumbnail and sketch:

Jerry Hall sketches 2

I rethought my Jerry Hall portrait and took it in a slightly different direction:

thumbnail sketch:


pencil sketch:



final coming soon

Jerry Hall Glamor

I'm going to revisit my Jerry Hall sketch and make it a more finished piece. I'm reading Jerry's book Tall Tales and I just adore her. Here is my pencil sketch



also exciting news regarding Jerry Hall:
Jerry Hall Signs With Ford Models, Again

shots from tokyo

I'm in vacation right now in Tokyo, Japan. Here are some things I have found inspiring.

hierarchy-IF

Glamor Hierarchy

Jerry Hall

The Little Mermaid ***revisited*** (final)

Thank you to those of you who took the time to write me with your opinions on my last set of sketches for The Little Mermaid. I took all of your opinions into account and I went with a classical sculpture and stayed truer to the original pose. I changed direction a little bit and developed a totally new color palate. I based the new mermaid on a silver fish.

Here is the sketch:



and here is the final:


please click to enlarge!



I hope you love her!

JDM

The Little Mermaid **revisited** (sketch phase)

hello!
I guess I'm going through a phase where I like to redo old drawings of mine because I'm attempting to do it again. I have always loved The Little Mermaid and after a trip to a Florida underwater mermaid show about two weeks ago I've been wanting to put some samples from the story back into my portfolio.
It's a not so secret dream of mine to someday do a version of the story, illustrated by myself, and I find the part with the mermaid in her garden particularly heartbreaking so I'm going there again.

"She was a strange child, quiet and thoughtful; and while her sisters would be delighted with the wonderful things which they obtained from the wrecks of vessels, she cared for nothing but her pretty red flowers, like the sun, excepting a beautiful marble statue. It was the representation of a handsome boy, carved out of pure white stone, which had fallen to the bottom of the sea from a wreck." taken from
- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson

ANYWAY.....
Here is the drawing I did bout 3-4 years ago:



I like it a lot but I think it could be updated and made a little bit more dramatic.
Here are some of my thought process sketches.







Any thoughts or feelings about these sketches would be much appreciated! I always like to know what other people think before I "dive"(har har har...I suck) into a final piece