Did some sketches of outfits that I would like to wear but do not dare. I like the way this one turned out. It’s done with coloured pencils in my sketch book. She could be a comics character; killing villains in secret by sending them black boxes with poison gas or spiders or something. The dress is far too nice to be given to a bad character….
Here’s some images that I find inspirational when I’m about to ink.
Bill Sienkiewicz has a black & white gallery. Here’s his “Vampire”. I love the energy in the strokes.
Another of my absolute favourites is Neville Colvin. On www.comicartfans.com one can look at high resolution scans of several of Colvins panels.
Here’s the link to this particular strip: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=699726&GSub=106509
I especially enjoy the line of Modesty’s nose, the thick lines in her hair as if made with a flat brush and the rythm created by thin parallell lines and flowing thick strokes.
All things are supposed to come in three but not tonight…
I’m going to post this for sale on Etsy. I’ve pencilled and then inked it with Pitts artist pen and Staedtler pigment liner. It’s drawn on a piece of Bristol Graphic Canson 250g/m2 measuring 15 x 21 cm.
I’ve tried to capture the characteristics of the comic. It’s was fun doing. I might do more.
And a detail…
I felt like doing some black and white drawing, so I did a sketch of Meenah to try out her outfit. I like the irregular stripes.
Had some fun doing these sketches today. I’m planning to draw on T-shirts with textile paint and pens so I wanted to get down some ideas for designs on paper for me and my girls..
I’ll attack these with digital color some other day…
I used to use threshold on my scanned inks. I scan in 400dpi greyscale. But lately I prefer the smoother effect when using levels even though I don’t get a 100% black. I don’t intend to print this but as far as I have understood 400dpi wouldn’t be high enough to get good line art for print.
I tested on Vetres just to see the difference.
First the adjusted levels:
And then the threshold (default 128):
The b/w image is of course easier to color. I would select all white areas and then use the bucket to fill on a separate layer but I still would have to be careful of small white islands. Using levels I have to select each area separately going from background to foreground.
Another drawing on the “recycled” theme. Great if you like your tail hanging out.
Drawn with pencils and colored with promarkers. The black is PITT Brush Pen.
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