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Pen & Ink #17: A Different Approach
So, what does one do when their thing is absolute crap? They start all over again.
My mistake was that on the first drawing, I attempted to do a marker wash over pencil and do my hatching later. Big, big mistake. Copic marker seems to lock pencil in, therefore completely ruining the drawing. Stubborn fool that I am, I tried to fix it and ended up with a crapfest. I almost abandoned it, deciding instead to do two things tomorrow. But I don’t work like that. I’d have stopped posting all together.
So I did another. Not possessing the fortitude to hatch my shades, I decided to do my tonal work in a sort of jazz-era cubist fashion. It’s dramatic, it’s different, and I’m not sure I like it.
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jazz era works much better and more contemporary to me.
I would like to see the “ruined” one. I bet it has a beauty of its own.
Cadmium yellow does that with watercolours, should you perchance or by design take your washes that way.
I like it, by the way. I need to think about why. But often I find that I like work that I know I could not create myself. I don’t seem to be able to produce clarity, simplicity, good design. You do.
I like it, I’d say it works.
Your other style is much more memorable and, well, _you_, though.
Is it intentional that the darker the tones, the sharper the lines/edges/corners?
My first idea was to do the whole thing as black and white, but when I was finished…it wasn’t.
I actually tried softening the edges of the gray a bit with a colorless blender, but no dice (not even a lousy d4). I decided to roll with it.
Erase first. Then put down marker. Lesson learned.