Still Figuring Things Out (WIP)
Added 2023-12-17 23:14:51 +0000 UTCAt some point you have to put the pencils down and pick up the inking tools. There's a few things I would like to take another stab at but this has to get finished. It never matches the roughs insofar as spontaneity, energy and "motion" goes.
I have a problem in seeing the forest for the trees, or the image for the details. I know I have a deficiency in certain things when it comes to drawing, but I try to balance that out with making an attractive image that's fun or dramatic or what have you. With some interesting-looking details. I guess that's called "style", but I have the bad habit of thinking of it as compensating. And maybe it is, so what, right? I don't know.
The anxiety never goes away. Every drawing feels like I've never drawn anything else in my life. Even my own characters seem foreign and alien to me, I have to look at old drawings to remind myself what the heck goes where the hell. Blah blah blah.
Winky just pushed my Switch so it fell on the floor with a loud thunk. I'm taking that as a sign to stop typing and start inking. And put the Switch somewhere safe from naughty pirate cats.
Wish me luck!
And, as always, keep it under your hats for the time being.
Comments
I've almost always done very detailed pencils, and sometimes ink with the pencil to get the line shapes I want. I don't allow for any inking without something solid beneath because I'm not a good enough artist to draw in ink. My brain wants to see the finished image as much as possible in the pencils, I often fill in black areas because of the compulsion overriding pragmatism/reason. I try to keep some life in the inking phase, between the line work and trusting (as best as my head allows me) to the pencils. The sketch always has the most life to it, the pencils the best look (free of correction ink, if nothing else) and the inks...well, the inks are the image I have to live with. Warts and all. I hate the way the inks look when I finish, because I know where I feel they came up short. But months, or sometimes years later, without the emotional baggage and deadline panic, I come to grips with the inks and sometimes even think they look good. All that aside, thanks for the compliment. I'm glad you feel the end results still look alive.
Evan Dorkin
2023-12-21 05:49:58 +0000 UTCI am very uptight about how the original art looks, which is not the best way to work for print. But it's how my head defaults. I miss using nibs and keep wanting to draw with them again -- but everything is overdue and the brush pens don't leak, etc. On this fly cover I was hoping to do the halo texturing with a 102, but I chickened out. It was for the best, the cover was running late and I always over-work the crosshatching and noodling.
Evan Dorkin
2023-12-21 05:44:01 +0000 UTCOne of the things that most amazes me with these process posts is learning that you work the pencils so hard before inking. Mainly because your work never looks stiff /overworked like that process may imply, it always has motion, "cartoony" etc. It always has that great feel to it.
Russell Grant
2023-12-19 20:35:40 +0000 UTCI always know that I'm going to mess something up when I ink it. So I guess that is why I'm not bothered by it. I know some artists like their art to look perfect ( the late Brian Ewing comes to mind ) But I let that idea go, and now I can ink stress free. Unless the bristol starts to bleed when I use nibs... No mental hack for that yet! But I can't wait to see what you came up with. I know its great.
William Hernandez
2023-12-19 19:48:40 +0000 UTC
