How to Ink Group Runthrough Week 4

Erin.Cortese · 10 Sept 2019, 23:34

@xin-li These look great - really smooth transitions! I worked with ink washes for the first time last October and it felt a bit disastrous. I think I was expecting it to move and spread easier. This is a good reminder to practice washes! I love the depth that you got with the houses!

Erin.Cortese · 10 Sept 2019, 23:41

I have been practising. Finally noticing some improvements

DaveLeekArt · 11 Sept 2019, 00:29

@Erin-Cortese looking good to me. I love the variety of techniques.

burvantill · 11 Sept 2019, 05:11

@chrisaakins I like the ball points 1 & 2 and the brush pen 2.

burvantill · 11 Sept 2019, 05:13

Day 2. Tired as heck but doing it.

xin li · 11 Sept 2019, 06:53

@Erin-Cortese really beautiful texture you have here. I love the hairy cup

braden H · 11 Sept 2019, 15:12

Doin' the tone scales as part of my daily since I'm havin' a real hard time doin' them all at once :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

DaveLeekArt · 11 Sept 2019, 17:08

chrisaakins · 11 Sept 2019, 19:14

I liked the tubes so I copied. Surprisingly I like the mouse paw with brush pen best.

Geoff Anderson · 11 Sept 2019, 22:12

A few tone scales plus fun with circle heads

demotlj · 11 Sept 2019, 22:51

I did a value scale and then tried doing a cat. It would have been better if I used reference since I’m a dog person, not a cat person

(Dip pen on Bristol board)

Erin.Cortese · 11 Sept 2019, 23:34

Found this book at the library last night. It is a little beat up, but has some great supplemental information and exercises! I'm definitely a book person, and I have realized that in order to learn effectively I am going to need supplemental material to read on a regular basis.

I am beginning to get more pen control, yay!

demotlj · 12 Sept 2019, 00:26

@Erin-Cortese I have this book - I got it during last Inktober - and it’s great. There is also a workbook that goes with it although the book really covers everything the workbook does.

Kuarahy · 12 Sept 2019, 01:13

Quick question: I tried inking over some colored pencil sketches with a Pentel brush pen, and it seemed like the pencil kept the ink from soaking in. Has anybody noticed the same thing? I'm planning on sketching out my drawings for Inktober before hand, but maybe I need to use something other than my usual colored pencils. . . Maybe I happen to have especially waxy colored pencils. . . I'm going to try a few different things and see if anything works better, but if someone's already familiar with this I'd love to hear about it!

burvantill · 12 Sept 2019, 05:22

@Kuarahy I believe @Jake-Parker said that he uses the Colorerase pencils because that doesn’t happen. It was in ... I can’t remember correctly. I think the how to draw everything class, but I’m not sure. I’ve watched so many . I’ll try and find it.
Anyway, I have the same problem, I use cheepo crayola pencils and they resist water too. I haven’t bought the colorerase pencils yet because I haven’t used up my crayolas and I’m frugal. Lol.

xin li · 12 Sept 2019, 07:13

@Kuarahy I have tried colorerase pencils before. They are very different from the normal waxy pencil. If you are planning to sketch for inking, colorerase penicls are great. Blue lead pencil also works(now you can get other colors than blue as well).

xin li · 12 Sept 2019, 07:16

@Erin-Cortese the author has a youtube channel as well. great resources for inking especially

xin li · 12 Sept 2019, 07:18

@demotlj so good. such a delicated lines, and beautiful tonal.

xin li · 12 Sept 2019, 10:17

Revisiting cheap drawing paper for ink wash practice yesterday. For these small sized paintings, cheap papers actually do pretty ok job.

burvantill · 12 Sept 2019, 16:14

Yesterday homework done this morning. The universe added a couple more things to my to do list yesterday and didn’t give me a heads up so I ran out of time. I hate it when the universe does that.
Today’s homework will be posted very much later tonight.