This one was inspired by something I heard someone say one day. (paraphrasing)

“No matter the undertaking, the only true motivation for a man is a woman. No matter how mundane or how lofty the goals are - it all boils down to the desire to attract a woman.”

So, you might say that women make the world go round, in many ways. Therefore, I went for “Ruler of the world” and a femme fatale type of subject to represent the true muse. The miniature format I had been doing would not allow the amount of detail I wanted for this one, so I went for a bigger size than usual (30x21cm).

Most of the picture was fun and reasonably quick to draw, but then I got stuck.

I started making lots of different versions, with ink lines and without, red hair, blue hair, plane background, no background, psychedelic background etc. Like half a year later I finally just stacked a bunch of versions in Photoshop and made a print. And it turned out just fine, even though I had set out not to involve computers in the process.

I had to revise my mission statement.

Hand drawn yes mainly, but photoshop is ok if it brings something to the project. Always draw to enjoy the process, and to impress women apparently…