Inktober, day 6: Finrod Felagund
Added 2019-10-06 17:29:51 +0000 UTCIt's incredible how much I've suddenly fallen in love with inking! My self-perception, for the last fifteen+ years, has been, "I can't ink". I did have a feeling that I knew why that was, and that's proven true: I approached inking by doing a pencil sketch that was still pretty rough in places, and thinking, "I'll fix that when I ink."
Now in every piece, there were about ten places that could or might not work. Of those, five ended up not working. Of these, two tend of be in the face or hands, and that drags down the entire piece.
So I've taken to pencilling much more carefully, particularly in spots where I can't wing it (hands) or where a line needs to be ultra-clear and unambiguous (faces), so there's absolutely no doubt where that line needs to go.
And then it's hoping I *see* the line. A few times, I didn't see it, thought I'd caught a dry bit of the brush tip, did the line again, and then had two...
I'm going to put up the first few Inktober originals in my Etsy shop on Wednesday! My five-year-old computer is dying, and I've sent my eye(s) on a shiny convertible laptop instead. Our school now has Smartboards that you can pare with tablets, and it would be so easy to just throw any text I'm reading with students straight on the board...
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You can ink! And I'm hoping I can get in at the right time to buy this one.
Maura Burns
2019-10-08 14:25:46 +0000 UTCLife goals =D
Jenny Dolfen
2019-10-07 12:00:06 +0000 UTCThe Éowyn one was in my sketchbook, so it's not for sale anyway! I'm thinking of doing small print packages for the Inktober ones once they're all done. (As many as there'll be!)
Jenny Dolfen
2019-10-07 11:59:49 +0000 UTCThese Inks just make me wish you could do the Silmarillion as a graphic novel - all of it (and that means including all the Jenny-imagined in-between scenes)! One can dream.
Liv Klein
2019-10-07 04:42:02 +0000 UTCHe's astonishingly cool <3 I wish I could have him as a postcard *____*
Kateryna Wan
2019-10-06 21:08:34 +0000 UTCAhh lovely! Finrod looks gorgeous!
Sophie JC
2019-10-06 20:11:49 +0000 UTCAny chance you'll offer prints of these? I really loved the Eowyn ink and watercolor from a few days ago. An original is probably a little out of my budget, and I wouldn't be surprised if you'd sold that one already, anyhow! Thanks!
Augusta Vae
2019-10-06 19:08:50 +0000 UTCI can't tell you how much I love these inked pieces!
Jennifer Colley
2019-10-06 18:19:17 +0000 UTCI am so incredibly deeply in love with your Inktober theme and these pieces.
Lenne Eeronketo
2019-10-06 18:03:16 +0000 UTCWhat do you mean? For these, I mixed the paint on the paper - taking up a second colour and putting it in the still-wet paint on the paper.
Jenny Dolfen
2019-10-06 17:47:42 +0000 UTCHow does mixing colours work?
Anjuschka
2019-10-06 17:45:55 +0000 UTCYOU CAN INK and you're so good at it! This is such a lovely Finrod (weird coincidence: I was crying over this character this morning...!) So glad to see those pieces on Etsy ; I've been planning to buy a few stuff from your shop, so we'll see how tempted I get :D <3
Litsen
2019-10-06 17:38:35 +0000 UTC
