Insaniac study

Here's my first project from my uni course Illustration Techniques.We had to pick a line from a movie and using an illustrator's technique, portray the line or theme in a dry medium.

I chose one of my favourite movies, Small Soldiers (1998) and the line 'You'd have to be crazy not to be scared.' Insaniac here is mad as a hatter, and therefore I thought a great representation of this line. (And I got a real kick out of getting to spend time drawing my favourite character ever!)

This was done on A4 paper with oil pastels (making great use of smudge sticks, kneadable and hard erasers) and took approximately 8-10 hours to complete.

© 2012 Austen Mengler