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That time in the ‘80s when Canadian country singer Brandy Cinnamon Wages was in the Rochester/Buffalo area, and she had a romantic interlude with an equally emotionally wounded hockey tough named Jerry.
The Wages, An Illustrated Story.
It’s a random Tuesday in the ‘70s, and Brandy C. Wages doesn’t realize the song called ‘I Feel So Trashy’ that she has just written is going to change her life.
She reads a book called Blueprint For A Life of Secrets.
A bigger piece of the story is on https://t.co/FqQPwWsRhp
Drawings where I use red as a spot colour, and the rest is linear black. Red is used by advertisers and sign-makers to grab attention. Red has multiple meanings—danger, enticement, good fortune, romance. Holding back with red can make it bolder.
Four random weird scenes from The Wages, An illustrated Story for you to look at.
Done? Not quite. I think I will dramatize the sky to her left a little more. Turbulent air to suggest a turbulent interior—not the most sophisticated motif, but it’s doing the job. I like working line over sloppy random watercolour for chaotic organic shapes like clouds.
I think I might be done this. I’m at the point where it feels like doing anything else to it will screw it up.
This is a quick photo with a little glare on it at the top—but I wanted to catch that moment where I feel like it’s finished.
One is a new drawing, one is a new scan.
The half-scale train takes Brandy Cinnamon Wages’ damaged tour coach across the flood. She stands on the engine and ponders her hardest memories of fate moving forward when there were few options.
New drawing.
The story begins: Brandy Cinnamon Wages takes some time out during a tour of Faterfair to attend a book signing by Stacy Oracle. But Stacy Oracle predicts Brandy won’t be going home as planned, instead she foresees Brandy’s dangerous journey to the void.
And there’s my underdrawing for the picture where the album is new. I just saved myself about an hour and fifteen minutes of fiddling around trying to get the proportions the same.
Now I can focus on working the lines of the album cover so they feel crisp and new like fresh ink.
Artists don’t be afraid to do things like tracing. Really. Just don’t worry about it.