How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2

demotlj

Here’s my homework and here are my excuses! I am trying to do all of these exercises with a dip pen because the Luddite in me really wants to learn it but I discovered that dip pens don’t like copy paper so I had to trace the template onto Bristol board and because the template is so light I had to just make up a lot of it.

What I learned from this:

Dip pens require thicker paper
If I press too hard on a dip pen for a thicker line it blots.
I still need to practice long straight lines (see shadows)
The Tombow correction tape works well (Yay!)
I need to either learn how not to blot or how to soak up a blot.

Really good exercise!

BichonBistro

@Geoffrey-Anderson I am working on areas of most fine-motor difficulty drawing, using this inking course as a guide for daily practice. For me, the goals are to work toward consistent spacing, drawing anything that involves pressure without line “tremors”, trying to identify the sweet spot where things don’t completely break down but are just difficult enough to challenge moving forward.

BichonBistro

@xin-li great idea, love seeing how you translate these to ink!

BichonBistro

@Braden-Hallett easy for you to say

BichonBistro

@Erin-Cortese looks good to me! Varying line weight intentionally is not easy!

BichonBistro

Daily accountability, experimenting with which pen works best for intentional variation in line size: haven’t found one yet

xin li

@Geoffrey-Anderson I did both solo lines and group lines practice (very similar to stuff Jake showed in the inking video) for the week one, and now I am focus on taking some of these practices into inking an actual drawing. To make it simpler for myself, I do not come up with a new drawing everyday, just take one of my favorite characters done by other artists (in any medium), trace it, and start inking.

braden H

I'm trying to find a couple of inking gears beyond thickest and thinnest. Right now I have a car with gears 1 and 5. I need gears 2, 3 and 4 as well.

Also, really focussing on contour lines is really helping me to remember how basic shapes are suppose to be interacting with each other.

burvantill

@Braden-Hallett we do for sure! Our cars are slowly dying and his super power is the ability to fix them. Thank God.

burvantill

My pen is here!!! And a new sponge to replace the two my dog ate.
just sharing

Heather Boyd

@Braden-Hallett

I’m not taking this class but your becoming a fabulous teacher with everything so nicely scheduled out.

BichonBistro

@burvantill yay!

chrisaakins

Here is my updated practice. Today I remembered that I had a watercolor brush pen that you fill with water and I thought, "Hey, why not try it with ink?" It worked rather well at least until the brush gets too much ink and I either couldn't get fine lines or it just blopped all over the place. (Grammarly does not like the word "blopped". It is too a word! I can say what I want.) But I did really like the expressive lines I was able to get out of it.

@Braden-Hallett one of these days I will be able to do the alternating thick-thin lines like you do and them not look like I am having some sort of tremor while I work them. (By the time I do I may actually have a tremor from being 107 or something )

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