How to Ink Group Runthrough Week 3

[ambiirae]

Hey all,
So tonight I had an awkward kind of realization while watching YouTube. It was a video about how this girls art work improved over the years and how for many years her work stayed the same and never really improved and one day her teacher told her with out applying your self to the basics and making a dedication your not going to improve and then it showed her work progressing over the years and getting better. And even though i have heard it 1000 times it really made sense and I thought of this post. I though about watching the videos in the class and looking at your guys work and I thought about it. I’ve been breezing through the videos with out doing much practice only doing what I wanted thinking I knew how to do this. Well I understood it in concept but not in application it made sense but I really had no clue. So I sat down and did three straight pages of blobs rewatched the form videos and by page three I was barely getting it.
So here is the end of today at page 3 of blobs and here is to the rest of the week practicing blobs and hopefully grasping this concept that I thought I understood feeling a bit ashamed and I guess smacking my self a bit cause I’m only hurting my self by not taking the advice and doing the basics first!

[ArtofAleksey]

I did the thing! I a good cat
I tried variations on tones using the pentel brushpen (not the pocket brushpen the regular ones) I really enjoyed doing the drybrush technique

[DaveLeekArt]

Work, work, work...
Still have a few videos to get through of How to Ink 2.0 but I’m excited to get to the new one Jake just released. Anybody take a peak yet?

[burvantill]

Wednesday

[ambiirae]

@Bricz-Art which video is that?

[chrisaakins]

Here is some homework. Pro tip on noses: make sure you have reflected light on the bottom and it will look more realistic.

[xin li]

Blobs of the day. I decide to stay with the pental brush pen for practicing. This is really stretching my confort zone - hatching with a brush pen. I am looking at Craig Thompson's Habibi comic. How is it possible to get such a consistent thin hatching lines with a brush pen.

[Geoff Anderson]

Continued line practice, as well as hatching on various forms. That brush pen is tricky!

[chrisaakins]

@Geoffrey-Anderson your hatching on the forms is spot on and well done. Although it kind've makes them look like leeches. Hahaha.

[braden H]

@ambiirae said in How to Ink Group Runthrough Week 3:

I’ve been breezing through the videos with out doing much practice only doing what I wanted thinking I knew how to do this.

That's what I used to do, too. Once I realized that wasn't working I really started to improve It's amazing how long I went without really knowing how to draw basic shapes :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

[braden H]

@xin-li said in How to Ink Group Runthrough Week 3:

How is it possible to get such a consistent thin hatching lines with a brush pen.

A faustian bargain

[BichonBistro]

@burvantill

[demotlj]

Dip pen on Bristol board using orange ink. It’s great to have a reason to use all of these colored inks that have been sitting around. I also discovered that the hatching works better if I flip my dip pen over - I get finer lines and it doesn’t blot.

[demotlj]

@burvantill Gorgeous! You should paint this.

[ArtofAleksey]

@burvantill amazingggggg

[Geoff Anderson]

@chrisaakins Haha, thanks!

[ambiirae]

Okay folks after two hours of driving (my commute hour each way) ten hours of work, walking puppy, and cuddling parrots I finally got some time to draw.. decided to use the brush pen for my blobs today and quickly discovered I might benefit from more line practice with the brush pen so here is my mix for the days home work. Sadly not quite a full page I hope to do better tomorrow now for some food and rest before the restart tomorrow!

[burvantill]

@Aleksey thanx! drawing those blobs the first day made me think of jellybeans

[braden H]

I'm having SOME success imagining the blobs as really weird oranges. I mark each 'orange' into sections and shade one section at a time. Kinda helps

[ambiirae]

@Braden-Hallett i really love your shapes on the bottom the transparent sphere looks really cool