Historical Scanning, Sketchbook 16
Added 2022-10-28 12:00:24 +0000 UTCMore sketches from the scanning project. Sketchbook 16 this time, still in 1995 (27 years ago).
- Shepherdess - a quasi-elven character, inked with dip pens and brushes. A lot of my work at this time was inked in dip pen rather than technical pen. I liked how it looked (still do, actually, and it gives the original a raised texture that's fun to touch).
- Eldritch and Seersa - another thing inked in dip pen, and the Seersa on the original page is glossy and reflective in a cool way. All the stipples on the Eldritch's dress were also done with a dip pen, which is why the dots are so variable in shape. This early Eldritch, interestingly, wore extremely fancy clothes but still come across as much less refined than their modern incarnations.
- Notes, Ancient Civilizations - My first notes, taken in my sketchbook during college, were like my high school notes--very messy, like this, with the pictures staggered through the text. They're hard to read. (Interestingly, the woman on the right in the sari was my professor, and she actually dressed that way.)
- Notes, Art History - But the longer I spent in Medieval and Art History classes, the more my notes started changing to reflect illuminated manuscripts, with panels for the art and separate panels for the writing. This one, of an RPG character having a bad moment, is one of the first fully developed pages of that type. I like how both the background architecture (shaded with hatchwork and lines) and the dense column of text all recede behind the character; the text becomes another architectural element.
Comments
Your fabric drapery was always an inspiration to mew. ^.^
Conrad Wong
2022-10-28 17:43:16 +0000 UTC
