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Inspiring Inking

September 24, 2011
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 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.

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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… 

 

Original Art For Sale

July 30, 2011
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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…

Character Sketch

July 30, 2011
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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.

Threshold v. Levels

March 15, 2011
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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.

Guillaume’s Rambling Ride Preview

March 14, 2011
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Ok..finally pencilled and inked a new page. I think it might be almost a year ago since the last update?? To prove that something is indeed going on, I’m posting an inked detail. I’m pleased with how the two last panels turned out, but I’m starting to consider returning to using a brush again for the thicker lines. I’m not satisfied with the lack of variation a pen offers anymore.

Vetres

Delving deep into the pen versus brush subject I believe it is two separate abilities that constantly develops – the ability to control the pen/brush/nib and the ability to envision what I want the inked end result to look like. These abilities don’t evolve in parallell but in unsynchronized jumps. Those jumps are what causes me to either revert to pens (when I feel my brush control isn’t up to what I can envision) or return to brushes (when the pens are the limiting factor to achieve the envisioned line). ..and blah blah blah

Aisha on My Mobile Phone

March 9, 2011
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I wanted to have something nice on my Xperia so I fixed  a version of a drawing of Aisha I did some time ago. She’s wearing one of the T-shirt designs I have or had (?) in the shop.

Inked with pens and then digitally colored.

If you like it you can use it too on your phone!

Aisha 480 x 800

Aisha 480 x 800

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