Keeping up the blog. Mostly just sketches, warm ups, that kind of thing. Most I didn't feel like taking to the coloring step, so I inked them and left them as they were. The Marcel image I tried really hard not to worry about little inking mistakes, stray lines and crossovers. It's so hard to let go of something like that. I'm wired to go in and FIX things like that, but there's something to be said for a more organic approach. I wonder if half of maturing as an artist doesn't have to do with letting go of some control as much as it is learning how to get it in the first place. Anyway, just some practice, some sketchbook filler.
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I love the sketches but you know that. Give up total control? Are you nuts? lol I think that is why I am going back to pen and paper for the next drawing… to get rid of the infinite number of fixes I can do on digital art. We learn from mistakes and they take us to places we never would gone before.
Well, here's the thing. I CAN fix those little inky mistakes with either white out or digitally with PS, so that 'infinite number of fixes' still exists with paper. That being said, I'm less likely to try and fix them with ink than with digital media. If you don't know the work of Paul Pope (comic maker and illustrator) I HIGHLY recommend looking up his stuff. He looks like he makes ink sing with his brush and is very much NOT into precision and tight rendering. I love his stuff. Just got a book today that's a presentation of some of his original art for his most recent comic, "Battling Boy" as it went through an international art show tour. SO great to see his stuff up close. He's SO loose, and his style works SO well. And thank you.
I usually work on cream coloured drawing paper and don't have matching white-out so I'm pretty much stuck with whatever hits the paper. Which is good for me, I think... I'll have to look up Paul Pope and I should loosen up... but I'm not sure that will ever happen!
This is the book I was talking about:
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Pope-Monsters-Titans-Battling/dp/160706944X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399563528&sr=8-1&keywords=paul+pope+monsters+titans
It's a lot for a one off, but do some image searching on the web. And if your local library has any of his comics, check them out. He's VERY much his own thing, and he's generally a love it or hate it kind of style. But he slings ink like no one I know.
My local library is the bibléotque nationale, it
's huge but all french! Still, it might be there if there is a translation. many many places sell graphic novels here (we still have bookstore around believe it or not!) so I'll look next time I pass one.
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