matthew woodson v7

This will almost certainly not be the last you see of this one, since I already have a template based off of this to load into Inkscape and/or Illustrator for further processing, but here is the latest thing I dug up from the archives.

Many years ago, when I first arrived at DA, one of the first people to give any notice to my random toilings was Matthew Woodson, aka ~boyinmidair who has long been missing from DA (since about 2005 or so) and whose work I generally found well developed and stylistically his own.

I did the pencils to this in 2006 or 2007, and last week I started fidgeting around with what i would do with this, having never figured out what to do with it otherwise.

I added the ideograph bubble and the raven's head after the fact (the bird was actually drawn while sitting passenger side on a drive to dinner with a Pentel brush pen onto a small sketchbook). The rest is acrylic paint, gouache, water soluble colored pencil on bristol and final assembly and torquing in PS7.

I keep looking at this hoping that I conveyed more stern self-assurance than malevolence, but the palette and tone is a bit Edgar Allen Poe.