Love the look of Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld movies, even if the movies got progressively worse as they went along.  Mind you, not trying to be judgmental here, as I have noted before I’ve positive feelings (guilty, admittedly) for the Resident Evil films.

So, here she is, Ms. Beckinsale as Selene in the Underworld movies…

Now for some insider type stuff:

What I love about digitally “inking” these pieces (I use an iPad and Apple Pencil with the Procreate program) is that it allows me to play around with white just as easily as I do with blacks.

Way back when I used to use an actual brush and ink in my work, black ink moved beautifully with a brush on the page but there is really no equivalent with physical white “ink”.  In fact, white “ink” is really just a corrective.  It’s used mostly to patch up errors in your work and is often used just to create certain effects such as stars or splatter.

Now that I’m doing my artwork digitally, all colors, including black and white, work the same and therefore I can now do white effects (I’m working up to going into colors, so bear with me).

In the case of the above piece, most of Selene’s hair was creating using white (digital) “ink”.

Enjoy!