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Slings and Arrows art + pimpage
Mar. 1st, 2010 03:11 pmSo I've got a bit of a new obsession... When my aunt (who's an artistic director for the theatre) was visiting for Christmas, she recommended a little Canadian series called Slings and Arrows to my mom and I. I mentioned it briefly a few weeks ago, but have been meaning to make a larger post about it since I finished watching it. The show is about a theate festival in the fictional town of New Burbage, Ontario, and is based on the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Being in the theatre, my aunt loved it and told us we should check it out. Finally got around to doing so a few weeks ago, and burned through the 18 episodes (3 seasons, 6 episodes each) in about two weeks (I was trying to stretch it out...). It's a fantastic show, and I strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent television - especially if you're interested in theatre (particularly Shakespeare), but I think it's excellent either way. It's sort of a black comedy - it's hilarious, but has some darker undertones, a fair amount of gallows humour, and some relatively serious scenes.
The main character is Geoffrey Tennant (played by Paul Gross), the brilliant but borderline-insane artistic director of New Burbage who has regular chats with his dead mentor and who once suffered a nervous breakdown onstage while playing Hamlet. The rest of the main cast is made up of various actors, festival administrators, and directors, including my other favourite Darren Nichols (he's on the left in the picture, and yeah, he wears crazy shit like that. It's part of his appeal...). Darren is Geoffrey's sworn enemy, a pretentious director who hates the theatre and puts on ridiculous post-modern interpretations of plays (his Romeo and Juliet in season 2 has to be seen to be believed). Every season revolves around the production of one main Shakespeare play (Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear), which to a certain extent parallels the stories of the main characters in that season.
Anyway, all of that, aside from being my attempt at pimping this show out to anyone who will listen, is mainly to preface my posting of this drawing, which I've spent a fair portion of the past week working on. I decided last weekend that I wanted to try a fully digitally-painted portrait, since I've never actually done so before, and I wanted to try my hand at drawing Geoffrey. I'm very pleased with the results, and am looking forward to doing more like this. It's a copy from a promo image, yeah, and I can see several places that I'm not 100% happy with, but overall I'm really proud of it.
Click on thumbnail for larger version.
Even larger version here. (and that's not even the full sized one... that one's like 3000x3000 pixels or something. ^^)
I also have the OpenCanvas event file if anyone is interested in seeing me draw it on fast-forward. :)
I've got a few other drawings coming, including chibi-fied versions of Geoffrey and Darren (just need to scan and ink them, and maybe colour them), and a Geoffrey/Darren drawing (coming along... I've started colouring it, but I think I'm going to go back and change some stuff. They look too tender and happy, lol, not angry and desperate enough!). I also have a bunch of non-S&A related drawings I've been meaning to post, which I'll get to... eventually. I want to make up a master art post to get everything in one place, because my drawings tag isn't that useful... and there are several things I've posted to communities or challenges but not here.
The main character is Geoffrey Tennant (played by Paul Gross), the brilliant but borderline-insane artistic director of New Burbage who has regular chats with his dead mentor and who once suffered a nervous breakdown onstage while playing Hamlet. The rest of the main cast is made up of various actors, festival administrators, and directors, including my other favourite Darren Nichols (he's on the left in the picture, and yeah, he wears crazy shit like that. It's part of his appeal...). Darren is Geoffrey's sworn enemy, a pretentious director who hates the theatre and puts on ridiculous post-modern interpretations of plays (his Romeo and Juliet in season 2 has to be seen to be believed). Every season revolves around the production of one main Shakespeare play (Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear), which to a certain extent parallels the stories of the main characters in that season.
Anyway, all of that, aside from being my attempt at pimping this show out to anyone who will listen, is mainly to preface my posting of this drawing, which I've spent a fair portion of the past week working on. I decided last weekend that I wanted to try a fully digitally-painted portrait, since I've never actually done so before, and I wanted to try my hand at drawing Geoffrey. I'm very pleased with the results, and am looking forward to doing more like this. It's a copy from a promo image, yeah, and I can see several places that I'm not 100% happy with, but overall I'm really proud of it.
Click on thumbnail for larger version.
Even larger version here. (and that's not even the full sized one... that one's like 3000x3000 pixels or something. ^^)
I also have the OpenCanvas event file if anyone is interested in seeing me draw it on fast-forward. :)
I've got a few other drawings coming, including chibi-fied versions of Geoffrey and Darren (just need to scan and ink them, and maybe colour them), and a Geoffrey/Darren drawing (coming along... I've started colouring it, but I think I'm going to go back and change some stuff. They look too tender and happy, lol, not angry and desperate enough!). I also have a bunch of non-S&A related drawings I've been meaning to post, which I'll get to... eventually. I want to make up a master art post to get everything in one place, because my drawings tag isn't that useful... and there are several things I've posted to communities or challenges but not here.
