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Ink blobs and monsters (now with crappy inkwash)
Mayday
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I really like the shading on the 2nd ink landscape
So Corgoles says to Dreden, "She's got Orc hands."
I don't know if I'd be able to handle doing involved drawings with that stuff, I'd smear it or get a giant blob somewhere, or something silly like that. Nice work, though!
ND: Have you tried it though? This is my first time with this tool and I'm already in love with it. It has all the advantages of both a pencil and a micron. If you're confident with your hand (and I'm sure you are, more than me) everything works just fine. Do try it!
Toastee: They are drawn from nature. For the bigger formats I usually mark the most basic proportions down with a pencil (I'm not yet confident enough to sketch with the pen). Then I grab this thing. The tip is replaceable- there are different sizes. You just dip the tip in the little ink bottle and draw until there's no more ink on the tip- what else did you expect?
Oh yeah- obviously you have to use either hatching or ink-wash for the shading. I tried ink-wash today and it looked pretty good until I did the trees:/ More scans tomorrow!
Looking good, Mayday. I've always envied people that can draw architecture... I find it hard and incredibly boring because of how repetitive the details are, do you ever get bored drawing the same window over and over again?
Read your comment again, then tell us who's the ass.
Also Mayday, you are mistaken sir. That is in fact a column. Hence the term "colonnade."
Yeap, Virum: as bread put it, it gives me joy to see the building come together. When drawing repetitive elements I just split the work into vertical and horizontal lines, making the work as quick and easy as hatching.
Bread: a column is round in its horizontal cross-section. The pillar is its later (not classical) derivative, square in its cross section. At least that's what they taught me on history of architecture.