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Little Sketches: A Pint and a Flute
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Shadows – A Two Minute Sketch
Went out to eat with Zorgor for lunch. Traced the shadows of my fingers and then proceeded to eat the sh*t out of a pesto turkey sandwich on a pretzel roll.
Village Scene
I got a little self-conscious in the middle part and it shows. I like bottom and top thirds. Clouds style borrowed from Denis Loubet.
Little Sketches and a Work in Progress
Some more little sketches to fill up holes in my art wall. Also a work in progress that I’ll likely finish up tomorrow. The square one is portion of this image.
Ultima Manual Illustration: The Golden Ankh – Wrecked
Reference: One-Mast Ship
Another illustration by Denis Loubet. Took some liberties. Not much else to say.
More Little Sketches! (Fish heads, face, Emilio, and a comb)
In similar fashion to this earlier post, I did some tiny sketches today in order to better fill the space in my cube. All are original, excepting the face, which is from Denis Loubet’s illustration.
Ultima Manual Illustrations – Giant Spider
Reference: Giant Spider
Today is another Loubet day. Not much else to say.
Ultima Daemon
Reference Image: Daemon
I felt like drawing something with a significant quantity of black in it today to test some of my bigger Rapidograph pens. So I’m back to another of Denis Loubet‘s illustrations. This was a nice change from using the Sharpie for filling in larger areas. I think I’m slowly starting to adjust to using these fancy schmancy pens.
Big Brother to the Rescue!
Reference Images Courtesy of NASA
This one admittedly took more than an hour. 😉
Anyway, Curiosity and the Oxy-Leech caught the attention of my good friend Chase, who worked on the first Mars rovers project. He asked if he could have it and I told him “NO!” But that was only because I’d rather he have something a little nicer. Here’s that something.
Today I learned: Illustration board doesn’t bleed, which isn’t. However, it also doesn’t dry very quickly so it can smear. Also, while it doesn’t bleed, it’s still fibrous and Rapidograph pens can get fibers in them which act like extra nibs and drag large pools of ink around, as evidenced by the really bad looking “G” in the text. I’m still not sure if I like them more than Zigs yet.
Curiosity and the Oxy Leech
References: Curiosity and Oxy Leech
Congratulations to NASA, JPL, and humanity! I’m waiting for Curiosity to discover the 1893 Landing Sites. 😉
Today is the first that I used Rapidograph pens. If you follow my blog, you know that I’ve primarily used Zig Millenium pens and once in a great while, Micron pens. Ever since college, people have said that the Rapidograph pens were the way to go, but I’d never used them. I didn’t have any place that I could try them and they were prohibitively expensive.
Fast forward a freaking decade, and here I am. Taking my artwork more seriously and I decided to invest in a set. I have mixed feelings about them so far. I definitely understand that there will be an adjustment period, but I’m not sure if I’m going to like them for the type of drawing that I do. I imagine that they would be wonderful when working with a ruler, but starting and stopping free hand is sort of punishing. It seems to accentuate any shakes that I make and I am unable to press harder like I do with the felt tip pens in order to steady my hand. I’m also unable to draw at as many angles as I am with the felt tips. Another gripe is that the ink is bleeding. I may have to switch to a higher quality paper medium if I want to keep using them.
For the short term, I’m going to stick with them. Especially since they were super expensive. Hopefully I’ll grow into them.