Post #309166 by Big Hodad-dy Reid on Sat, May 26, 2007 4:47 PM

I have an unusual (to some maybe) way of working...I draw on just enough usually to get the form roughed out, then work out the details as I go depending on how things are looking. I will add details onto the stone, see if they're working, then change my mind and erase them again.
I did "reverse design" this one by taking a sketch from my drawn-up stone, then working that into a detailed drawing for my book (as I'm planning more in this series), but in general 80-90% of these tikis ever appear on paper. In this case I wanted a consistent look of simple overlapping scales/plates, and I thought the original headdress made the head too busy in relation to the body.

Diggit, man. By the way this last pic really shows the "gills" better. I thought I saw something extra there before. Looks wayyyyKewl!