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Artwork: Succubus in Black

A succubus in a little black dress.

If my last drawing was an exercise in drawing glossy material, then this drawing is all about the blacks. A black dress drenched in midnight—purely a shape—and 'black' hair, which must be anything but.

So really its about the components: the black dress, the warm lighting and shadows, the iridescent black hair and the shimmering wings.

A drawing of a devilish lady wearing a little black dress. She's sat on a stone bench, her legs crossed, staring directly at the viewer with eyes of gold and turquoise. She has curved horns, pointed ears, leathery wings and a serpentine tail that rises up in a curl beside her. She has long iridescent black hair, pulled over one shoulder. She's leaning against the side of a stone wall, with one of her wings propped up against it, while the other wing is draped on the bench beside her, one talon resting on her knee. Her wings and the tip of her tail are giving off a phosphorescent purple glow. She's wearing gold spiral earrings, a ring set with a teal stone, and a golden finger claw over her index finger.
A quiet encounter on a warm summer's night.

Ordinarily I wouldn't consider doing a 'black' outfit in actual pure black, but would rather do something similar to what I did with the succubus's hair: a fusion of deep colours, with the usual shades and (possibly) highlights. But in this case, I wanted to see how it would look.

I think in general, I would only use pure black if I was working in monochrome, or possibly even just pure black-and-white. Colour work demands... well, colours.

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