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skekAyuk, the Gourmand-panneaux

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This new panneaux for my Dark Crystal art nouveau inspired series belongs to the Gourmand skekAyuk. The big chubby skeksis who ate even more and more hastily that his voracious fellows at the "skeksis dinner scene", for those who have watched the movie...
The Gourmand's robes have resulted much more complicated that I thought them to be. Once I started getting into the fine detail they presented, I went berserk about it and spent over two hours striking at the drawing with my quill just to render those small things which perhaps are not even going to be noticed! XD  I can assure you there was a lot of those!...Little laces, patterns, lace edging frill over frill...a small encased red gem (ruby?) on his neck frill-like ornament, his "about-to-pop" shirt buttons...
And then there was ALL THE FOOD I wanted to represent him with, due to his extreme love of it. I decided to have him holding a bowl of ingredients which he would be using for his next culinary creation (The Gourmand always boasted about his ability to create a different delicacy for each dinner night...and that would be A LOT of recipes if you spend each day for 1000 years doing that! XD)...
So, he holds there a mixture that could look tasty if it's conjoint and ammount didn't make it look almost unholy. He's even unavertedly dropping small ammounts of things while he strides on to his kitchen, to order his slaves what to cook for the day and how to prepair it.

The drawing itself was made by hand sketching on graphite common pencil,then inked by quill and chinese ink, with small retouches of a ballpoint pen (I love them when it comes to thinner lines and textures!)
I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I enjoyed drawing it!

There are more coming...Who will be next?...Find out soon!


DISCLAIMER:    I do NOT OWN any of the skeksis or other Dark Crystal characters. Their races, likenesess  and particular personalities and demeanor were created by, and are property of Jim Henson,Brian Froud, Frank Oz and the many people who worked in the making of The Dark Crystal (1982)*
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ArlenFram's avatar
So much good food nomnomnom! I woldn't mind if the Gourmand feed me every day with different recipe ;)
This look beautiful! I love his boasting expression and the details on his robes! His robes... so shiny ^^