Posts tagged “sketchbook”
Continuing to figure out how to use watercolours. The dark lines that appear in the painted parts are from the underdrawing, which was done using a super-light grey marker.
Be Somebody or Be Somebody’s Fool
Apprently it’s Mr. T Drawing Day on Twitter. Who am I to resist?
Testing out the free PaintTool SAI that Jared linked to on Drawn earlier. I like it, though I have to run it in VMWare, as there is no Mac version.
Never look through old sketchbooks unless you’re prepared to face the savage mirror.
Some scans from my sketchbook, including some superheroes in varying degrees of discomfort. I often wonder why I draw superheroes, when I haven’t read a superhero comic since I was twelve. But I think it’s because the skin tight outfits means you can dress a figure without worrying about drawing any pesky folds in the fabric.
I’ve been using a light grey marker for a lot of my underdrawings lately. I like to do most of the actual drawing in the inking stage, but I still need the crutch of an initial rough underneath.
With pencils I tend to spend too much time rendering, and erasing, and fussing. And when I ink a pencil drawing, I get hung up on tracing it and making the lines perfect. The permanence and thickness of the marker’s lines means less fussing, and forces me to embrace spontaneity.
The inking was done with Rapidographs, a G-Nib, and a Zebra brushpen.
