Harley Quinn

Some time ago I found that Coop had done a pencil sketch of Harley Quinn. I am a huge fan of Coop's work, and this was the perfect motivation to study his work. I have his book Devil's Advocate and love perusing the pages of his work. I took his pencil sketch of Harley Quinn seen here



With my self taught talent and style using cell shading and gradient meshes in Illustrator I created this digital inked and colored version of Harley. I am a fairly good digital illustrator and this was my first venture into the inking and coloring side of things that is usually only found in sequential art.



I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it. It used to be a practice for artists to copy master works in order to study the hand of the artist, but sadly in today's world many people fear to create things not "original." People tend to forget what they can learn by simply tracing something. It was growing up redrawing Todd MacFarlane's Spider-Man that helped me years later not draw fingers like sausages.