There ya go, exercising your inner Wrightson. Excellent.What are these little pens you're using, i used rapidographs until Austin's heat and humidity made it toooooo muh trouble then a little fine conical point disposable called a Vega, no longer made ,for those fine tapering strokes.I took a page from R. Crumb at 15 and began to carry my sketchbook everywhere, so if i had to wait(alwaya) I'd just draw also without penciling first it was a great exercise in bravery. Later i followed Gilbert Shelton and Crumb into drawing from life with a dip quill pen and #10 Hunt points.Then i could really get that fine descriptive varying thickness line that they taught at Disney, also Walt Kelly and Al Capp. just got the first two years of little Abner before Frazetta came on board to do the chicks. Whoa that cat could draw. Oh I also found Fountainpen Waterproof ink to be the most opaque and most elastic if you had to scrape some off.It's a brand of India Ink.The printer always jumped me about the transparency of water-soluble felt-tip inks. Hope this fines you well and doing fine.Where are these houses on your blog masthead? Gorgeous. micael priest
Thanks Micael for the cool comments and encouragement. Great to hear about the folks who inspired you. I'll have to check out Walt Kelly and Al Capp. Crumb and Shelton are big inspirations to me - as well you.
Yes those rapidiographs are a pain in the ass, always clogging! I use "Microns" they come is a nice assortment of pen tip sizes and you can get great detail. Permanent ink and opaque as well. I too like drawing without a net and not penciling first - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but it's worth the risk.
The houses are from Sandy Hook N.J. where there are a bunch of abandoned houses used during the war to house soldiers. It's a favorite place of mine to go and watch the sun set on the bay.
There ya go, exercising your inner Wrightson. Excellent.What are these little pens you're using, i used rapidographs until Austin's heat and humidity made it toooooo muh trouble then a little fine conical point disposable called a Vega, no longer made ,for those fine tapering strokes.I took a page from R. Crumb at 15 and began to carry my sketchbook everywhere, so if i had to wait(alwaya) I'd just draw also without penciling first it was a great exercise in bravery. Later i followed Gilbert Shelton and Crumb into drawing from life with a dip quill pen and #10 Hunt points.Then i could really get that fine descriptive varying thickness line that they taught at Disney, also Walt Kelly and Al Capp. just got the first two years of little Abner before Frazetta came on board to do the chicks. Whoa that cat could draw. Oh I also found Fountainpen Waterproof ink to be the most opaque and most elastic if you had to scrape some off.It's a brand of India Ink.The printer always jumped me about the transparency of water-soluble felt-tip inks. Hope this fines you well and doing fine.Where are these houses on your blog masthead? Gorgeous. micael priest
ReplyDeleteThanks Micael for the cool comments and encouragement. Great to hear about the folks who inspired you. I'll have to check out Walt Kelly and Al Capp. Crumb and Shelton are big inspirations to me - as well you.
ReplyDeleteYes those rapidiographs are a pain in the ass, always clogging! I use "Microns" they come is a nice assortment of pen tip sizes and you can get great detail. Permanent ink and opaque as well. I too like drawing without a net and not penciling first - sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but it's worth the risk.
The houses are from Sandy Hook N.J. where there are a bunch of abandoned houses used during the war to house soldiers. It's a favorite place of mine to go and watch the sun set on the bay.