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.
Continued line practice, as well as hatching on various forms. That brush pen is tricky!
@Geoffrey-Anderson your hatching on the forms is spot on and well done. Although it kind've makes them look like leeches. Hahaha.
@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:
@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 
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.
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@burvantill Gorgeous! You should paint this.
@burvantill amazingggggg
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@chrisaakins Haha, thanks!
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!
@Aleksey thanx! 
drawing those blobs the first day made me think of jellybeans 
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
@Braden-Hallett i really love your shapes on the bottom the transparent sphere looks really cool 
@ambiirae Thanks! Transparent stuff is always hit or miss with me
Really enjoyed this exercise, its beginning to helps me loosen up. I think I might make this one a daily for the next little while. Next up...shapes 
@Erin-Cortese It helps loosen me up too! It definitely is helping me get over my fear of hatching
Didn't have much time so I did a bird nest. 
@Erin-Cortese I agree that these shapes are the best for loosening up—good idea to incorporate into daily practice! I find the shapes more stressful because I have to think more 
Daily accountability: (longer straight lines feel less wobbly and a bit more controlled and this is just week 3 
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@chrisaakins nice!
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.
