The doodle portrait below was the inspiration for “Wall Street Gothic”–a parody on Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.”
I tend to think of Illustrations as cleaned up doodles–they go through a messy stage as detail is added and erased, but as the polishing process continues, a finished illustration eventually emerges. For the initial doodle (below), I started with her eyes. To create the final illustration (above), a cut-and-paste action was done to transfer her facial image to a fresh screen where her body and the other figure were added.
