I have been creating the same kind of images lately. Mostly ink drawings with a few ink washes to give them a bit of dimensionality. This drawing goes quite a way down a different rabbit hole. Well, maybe not all that far, but it’s a start.
I wanted to do something with the photo I used as a reference for this piece for quite some time but had yet to get around to it. On this day, I was hunting for something to draw and came across an image of a pack of zebras. The thought of drawing all of the stripes on an entire herd of zebras made my head spin, so I decided to draw only one. Since I felt lazy, I didn’t even draw all that!
I decided to create a very graphic-looking drawing and let the stripes tell the story. When I look at the completed drawing, I like the contrast of the piece and the story the stripes tell. So, naturally, I named this piece Stripes.