The only thing more difficult to escape than his gaze is
Randolph Crider's determined tentacles. In the short time that I've known Randy, I've been impressed with the scale of his drawings and how everything looks like it deserves to be framed by text and printed as a poster. I personally shy away from scenery. I'm not sure if its a fear of perspective or an overall laziness, but I tend to focus on the subject and get all abstract with my BG's. Randy seems to delight in bendy buildings, sporadic bubbles, and the occasional tentacle have added a nice little catchphrase to his work. I like to pretend that every tentacle is Randy saying, "I'll be back."
I'm pretty happy with this one. I've probably only painted one other person and this one turned out way better. I'm finding it much easier to work by doing the black and white value drawing first, but don't feel that I've quite mastered the overlay of color. Regardless, it was nice to digitally paint again.
Sketched in Sketchbook Pro and Painted in Photoshop using the Cintiq.
