How to Ink Group Runthrough Week 3

ambiirae · 8 Sept 2019, 04:36

Did some simple practice today. It is definetly starting to feel better probably do some more but figured I better get my photo in before we loose power to this thunder storm

This was my favorite for today

Thinking of doing 31 pups of october based off our 4 month old pup Cujo

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 06:12

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

I shamelessly stole practice ideas

When it comes to practice, there is no stealing, only sharing

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 06:14

@xin-li I think an ink wash is a great idea kinda like watercolour but much more awesome!

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 06:16

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

Also footballs are surprisingly hard to draw.

oblate spheroids are the bane of my existence. Yours looks pretty awesome, though

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 06:19

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

It is definetly starting to feel better

Little by little, slowly but surely I feel exactly the same way.

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 06:22

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

Thinking of doing 31 pups of october based off our 4 month old pup Cujo

Also, 31 pups of inktober is a great idea!

ambiirae · 8 Sept 2019, 06:51

@Braden-Hallett thanks! still thinking over how I wanna go about it but sort of leaning more cartoonish with costumes

burvantill · 8 Sept 2019, 06:56

@ambiirae I like your balloons. I was having a tough go of it shading my balloons. Your dark one turned out good.

xin li · 8 Sept 2019, 08:09

@Braden-Hallett I know. I never really tried doing ink wash. I often admire artists who can make something so suggestive, but looks so casual. It is almost like a magic for me. I probably will fail terriblely, but I hope I will learn a thing or two.

Coley · 8 Sept 2019, 10:15

@Braden-Hallett whew, lol Actually I was listening to the podcasts a bunch this week and a few times they talked about copying for practice as a way to learn so I figured I'm going for it ha ha.

xin li · 8 Sept 2019, 11:06

For daily practice today, I found some really old brushes (I think it was acrylic paint brushes), and practice ink wash on copy paper.
I actually bought some small watercolor board with an intension to try out ink wash. But somehow it was so much easier to get started messing around on the regular copy papers. Do you guys have "expensive art supply anxiety"?

burvantill · 8 Sept 2019, 15:11

@xin-li YES!

ambiirae · 8 Sept 2019, 16:16

@xin-li lol we all do!

ambiirae · 8 Sept 2019, 16:19

@burvantill thank you! I got the inspiration for yours lol yours looked really good but I got carried away and ended up having to shade the whole thing guess it worked out

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 16:19

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

Do you guys have "expensive art supply anxiety"?

I've spent enough money on fancy art supplies that have sat unused in my cupboard to buy a new tablet like three times over.

I sometimes have panic attacks when looking specialty papers now :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

braden H · 8 Sept 2019, 19:40

Week 4 is up

https://forum.svslearn.com/topic/7991/how-to-ink-group-runthrough-week-4

Erin.Cortese · 10 Sept 2019, 19:08

So this was my attempt at shapes that I avoided posting last week. This was not my first attempt . I drew the mummy because I was frustrated with the shapes, and that seemed to come more naturally. I really struggle to draw circles as you can see by all the attempts, and I find the other shapes almost as difficult for some reason. Something just goes wonky every time I attempt a geometric shape. The hatch marks are just as big of a problem. I feel much more comfortable with organic shapes and objects that I feel I understand. Going to keep plugging away.

braden H · 10 Sept 2019, 20:26

@Erin-Cortese Shapes. Are. Hard.

Shapes are hard.

But they're also the kinds of things that you don't notice getting better until they're better. So it's gonna be awful and frustrating until it's all over until you what I mean

Erin.Cortese · 10 Sept 2019, 23:29

@Braden-Hallett Thank you!! I thought it was just me. I felt like it was just some strange quark I had. For whatever reason I felt like shapes should be the easiest thing to work with. Again, me and my expectations, lol.

demotlj · 11 Sept 2019, 13:50

@Erin-Cortese I've also had real problems with circles but one thing that helped me was a suggestion on the Figure Drawing video: lock your elbow and wrist and start drawing circles in the air just above the paper, do a couple of air circles, and then without stopping move your pen onto the paper and draw the circle. I'm still not great but when I do that, it works better.