How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2

[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 )

[BichonBistro]

@chrisaakins so good!

[BichonBistro]

@Braden-Hallett I have a blown transmission

[chrisaakins]

@BichonBistro Thanks so much! It is so encouraging to hear someone likes your drawings.

[chrisaakins]

meanwhile, I am not getting any homework done....

[DaveLeekArt]

@chrisaakins really great work. You got the line work on that dragon pretty dang crisp.

[ArtofAleksey]

@chrisaakins breadloaf!! Looks so good.

Everyone is doing so greatt.

[braden H]

@Heather-Boyd said in How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2:

your becoming a fabulous teacher with everything so nicely scheduled out.

It's because I was literally a teacher for a few years :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

[braden H]

@chrisaakins said in How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2:

one of these days I will be able to do the alternating thick-thin lines like you do

I think I may be having an easier time of it since I'm doing it digital. A real brush pen's a lot harder to use (in other words your lines look pretty darn good to me!)

[chrisaakins]

Here is Thursday's practice. I tend to draw and paint very fast but I am finding that slowing down really helps with the finer details. Too quick and you bear down too hard. So, you are right @Braden-Hallett but @Aleksey I have to do straight lines faster or I start to wobble a bit. I guess I need to strengthen those core art muscles

[braden H]

@chrisaakins Drawing a sphere of feathers or leaves is the bane of my existence. Great practice, though!

Lookin' good

[BichonBistro]

Daily accountability: this took so long I did not have time to do daily line practice, but this forced me to try line variation with a brush pen for a lot longer than I am doing in daily practice exercises.

[BichonBistro]

@chrisaakins I also find “slow and steady” to be the most difficult.