Evil's Inktober 2017

@evilrobot I really enjoy your pen work. Nice line work!!

TessaW

@evilrobot said in Evil's Inktober 2017:

After the inktober stuff I've been thinking a lot about the style. I've been thinking about ditching all my full color pieces and changing my whole portfolio with a more stripped down style. Messy ink line, tonal rendering, and just one or two spot colors. Any thoughts on this? Wondering if it's a good move or not to get rid of all the full color stuff.

I'm not the best person to give advice on portfolios, but I personally would include the color stuff- just because your work is very well suited to the children's market and I can imagine you getting more jobs if you show you can handle color. I think including a good chunk of these limited color pieces is a good idea as well though, because they are really attractive- and I can see where it might inspire someone to hire you based off of the aesthetic. I would maybe think about having a signature color look. Rebecca Green may be a good artist to look at. She includes a fair amount of almost black and white pieces in her portfolio and all her color stuff looks very "her".

Anyway, good luck! I'll be interested to see where you take your portfolio.

evilrobot

@tessw Thank you very much for the feedback. (I love Rebecca Green's work) I'll have to work at the color pieces some more find a unique way of doing it like with the limited pieces.

Jon Anderson

@evilrobot I've been thinking about trying the same thing. I say definitely incorporate the basic spot color in some pieces going forward, but not necessarily to scrap the old works.

evilrobot

And today's attempt

evilrobot

And some more. Need to go with darker washes. The scanner just bleaches out the lighter washes and I can't adjust it to look right. The washes on the original look very smooth not choppy like they do here.

Lynda_Percival

I just love these!

Andyg

@evilrobot actually I rather like choppy! Great stuff.

evilrobot

My attempt from today. Going to try and paint this....my guess is I'll screw it up but we'll see.

Kevin Longueil

@evilrobot This looks great! Good luck with the painting!

evilrobot

And the painted version

Darian

Like your attitude & approach when it comes to experimenting!

It's looking great..especially the sketch.
What medium did you use to paint the latest one?