wing dress update: velocity mama

---What is the Wing Dress?---
The wing dress is an ongoing project of mine
that I have been recording the 'making of' process of since May '07.
The dress will have a wing/ feathers, dyed/ painted on it.
I am simultaneously making a shirt, also with a dyed wing.

on my last post re. wing dress i traced feathers onto a paper dress
a rough sketch, a general idea for the dress-to-be
as you see below



red stain is from fabric paint, by the way
no one's gotten killed over this

as you see, it's like a dead bird perched on ya shoulder
and today's post will show you my clumsy attempt to
bring life, in form of velocity, to the above drawing


so what's with this velocity thing?

[i've written a lengthy explanation on that here but
realized i'm talking too much risking the
dreadful inspiration bubble burst, so i...
erased it!]

hence the velocity!!!



okay,
let's pick on this feather!
yeah, you over there



sometimes it's easier to draw with empathy
using eraser



filled in
(i hope) you see (the difference),
the thing is a bit more alive



now picking on many other feathers
their shafts erased with modified curve



filled in anew
goin faster yet?



occasionally pin the thing on a body
who's that growing horns?



now i move on to
mess with the circled area

before,



...and after!

(the paper weight is a souvenier from chuuk islands)


treatment on one of the sleeves



so far, worked to semi-completion
on the front half of the dress



to be continued, soon as i am
picking up speed with this velocity work

thank you for reading!!