On the Road to Find Out

(2016) 10x13 Brush/Ink.
"The more questions that were asked, the fewer answers were received, so we set out to lay the rumors to rest, once and for all."

A study on how ink strokes define atmosphere, shape and texture. There is quite a variety of line widths in the characters and horses, and I had to keep adjusting based upon all the other lines keeping the same relational weight with each other. The first ink on the paper were the two black lines leading straight to the central character. After that, I was inking the upper right hand side of the image way before any of the riders were completely penciled. The change in treatment from upper right to left was due to the sunbeams (the idea coming very late in the image), which needed a different approach; more abstract and impressionistic.