latest golf drawing by Steven Anthony Salerno

drawing by Steven Anthony Salerno      visit sasgolf.com

Posted here is a recent drawing I created... a very stark image of a player about to strike the ball, seen from a face-on view. 

It's a pen & ink drawing on paper, but I purposely drew it in a manner suggestive of a dark, rich etching. As I drew the ink line with a pen, I immediately rubbed the ink line with my wetted finger, thus smudging the line and getting a heavy black line that "bleeds" -suggestive of a particular etching style wherein the burr of the stylus cutting into the metal plate holds a lot of ink, thus when the plate is printed it yields a rich, black, fuzzy line on the printing paper. (note: When creating an etching, lines are drawn and bitten into a metal plate via an acid bath, then ink is rubbed into these lines, followed by pressing damp paper on top of the plate. The artist will sometimes purposely flood the etching plate with excessive ink too... to obtain a very saturated line that bleeds onto the damp printing paper.) My drawing simulates this look, even though it isn't an etching.

Once I completed the drawing stage, I then scanned it into Photoshop, onto a layer. Then I also scanned into Photoshop an earlier painted background I had created with gouache. This became an abstract layer under my figure of the golfer. I then duplicated this same layer and placed it as a third layer above the figure of the golfer... but immediately erased most of it out, leaving just a couple thin angled streaks, which seem to be in the foreground in front of the golfer. The last step is to merge all these layers, resulting in the final art image which you see here. The background creates a stark atmospheric backdrop for the golfer... as if he is playing alone on a desolate course somewhere in the world.

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