Monsters can be Beautiful too

So another art nouveau piece finished. (Completed last Wednesday as planed) I'm not sure if this should have taken me twenty-two hours. It is in ink, on A2. Perhaps the scale and the need for a very steady hand makes that ok? Anyway, now I'm looking to colour this at some point, preferably water colour, so this is going to take even longer. Eh.

Monsters can be Beautiful too

I really disliked nouveau when I was introduced to it as the examples I was presented with, and the books I was shown that specialised on it, only featured glorified drawings of women. Women, women, women. It was boring. Boring, boring, boring. Stylistically it was great but the specific choice of subject made it less engaging. Having returned to it in my own time however I found it was used creatively in architecture, graphic design, jewellery, furniture and drawings, that didn't feature women. It does compliment the human form but it has become over saturated with arbitrary drawings of women so I did this "spider girl" instead.

Any honest comments or critiques are appreciated. It's not for ego preening or reinforcing my self confidence.

Meh.