Immovable

Diana Artemis faces General Terrible and his Horrible Host.

For this week’s Illustration Friday, Immovable, I decided to put together a scene from my sketchbook on the Goddess of the Hunt facing some unsavory types. Yep, an unstoppable force meeting an immovable opponent. Or, vice versa.

Here’s the set up:

And then more refined:

Diana’s upper body is actually a cymbal stand. Don’t tell her, though – I don’t want her to feel bad that I haven’t finished drawing her.

Here’s how it started:

I didn’t sweat General Terrible or the bad guys too much, because I wanted them to be out of focus.

General Terrible


Diana is reflected in the Shield

And here are some outtakes with different lighting
:

Diana wins, of course. They don’t really stand a chance – she has the moon on her side.

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10 Responses to Immovable

  1. Jehanne says:

    oh this is really cool!

  2. Sandra says:

    This is very awesome looks great!

  3. alex says:

    I can’t really get over how amazingly cool that is! Wicked job

  4. Scott says:

    I think General Terrible should have his own series.

  5. Linda says:

    Interesting way of going about this. Cool perspective.

  6. Desy says:

    Good idea!

  7. Wow, what a great technique. Great interpretation as well!

  8. Janine says:

    Wow thats a great piece of art.
    I found how you went about setting it up very intresting.

  9. Jim Doran says:

    Thank you all! It was awesomely fun to do.

  10. Pingback: Artemis and the White Bear - Jim Doran

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