Copy - John Kenn

To start with I found a nice piece of artwork created by Don Kenn. Once I’d found an appropriate, yet somewhat difficult piece of work he’d created I started to sketch out the main parts of the image into my sketchbook.

Once the sketching process was complete I began using a dip pen and some black Indian ink to fill in the gaps. Starting with the fence in the bottom of my image I started to sketch and draw the wood texture with the dip pen. This due to the fact I’d only just started was extremely difficult and It took me a few hours to completely figure out how to work the dip pen properly without spilling ink all over my work. Once the fence was half completed I started on the boy which is situated in front of the fence. Working with the different saturations of dark throughout the image, I had to re-do the lines on the boy’s hair to make it more defined and stand out against the fence background.

Once I’d finished the fence I started on the ‘ghouls’ or ‘monsters’ floating behind the fence looking at the boy. These was generally harder to illustrate than the boy and the fence was due to their intricate nature.

 After the ‘ghouls’ were done I moved onto the background. Although this caused some trouble, I ended up accidentally dropping in over the existing work whilst trying to do the gradient background

Once all the inking was done, I scanned the final piece into my laptop. Moving the picture into Photoshop, I started to changed the levels of the photo and then add a orange filter over the top of the image. This initially gave my copy the feel that it had been created on a post-it-note, like the original had.

This is my final piece next to the original. The original is on the left and my copy is on the right.