How to ink 2.0 Group Runthrough Week 2

[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.

[braden H]

@BichonBistro Nice! You're definitely paying attention to those contour lines and shape hierarchy

[BichonBistro]

@Braden-Hallett thanks Braden! My hand doesn’t always do what my brain tells it to, but good to know that my brain is on the right track I think I can, I think I can

[DaveLeekArt]

@MikeCañas fantastic job! Looks pro

[chrisaakins]

@BichonBistro I love the little extra details on your T rex. Looks great!

[burvantill]

I’m happy.
It’s very sensitive compared to a micron. For sure! I’ve been using a micron or small tip dip pen for so long, the change will be interesting. I used the brush pen on the fuzzy shapes as if I was using a micron and I really like the effect. And the FINE line! Wow. When @Jake-Parker talks about the light pressure like a butterfly licking his paper I didn’t get it. Do now. Lol.