Murder sleeve - Session 01

A client came in and wanted a murder sleeve. Stunning photos from Suzi9mm (suzi9mm.com) were chosen. Separated by police tape and foreground blood, the sleeve is a scene of murder and murderer.

To capture the women, I chose to draw the outline within Photoshop. By zooming in, I used an outline and crosshatching technique to create a visual key. To help even more, I printed out a copy with the outline over it as reference. It was almost like paint by numbers, but without the, um, numbers.

Here's the top outline, and the bottom outline.

She wanted it to look relatively realistic mixed with freedom to do whatever I feel. I can admit now that I was a bit intimidated trying to figure out how to outline this. Once I sat down, I knew it called for less outline and more precision shading. My goal became capturing forms so I can go in over the next sessions and feel comfortable.

I'm pretty excited about this one.