110611_stripes

I was feeling really down that I hadn't put a decent amount of time/finesse into a piece in a while and then I decided to look at Illustration Friday for some inspiration and I saw the theme "stripes."

I've been aching to do more digital painting lately as well so this seemed like a good opportunity to work on painting flesh.

I started with the usual thumbnails and tried some other ideas but ended up liking none of them very much except for the ones with the girl. I guess I wanted to do something pseudo-pinupy anyways. Also, here's a full resolution crop so you can see a bit more detail.