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| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| Crop in or out...the leggy dame |
Jesus, this was never meant a "bootyful" image, so please keep ur eyes on the upper part. I am really not happy with the lower one...Everytime I draw a woman, I start off confidently, and in the end that confidence fades like a cotton shirt...I am a woman, for goodness sake. Am I not suppose to know where's what? "...I am tempted to "crop" it.Labels: Pencil Sketch |
| posted by Angel @ 2:01 AM
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| Sunday, June 25, 2006 |
| Don't do it on Yupo! |
Repeat, I repeat: don't do it on Yupo...unless you want a stained glass effect. I finally colored my fishes, but the Yupo paper didn't absorb any paint...So I couldn't put my hand down without getting everything smeared and my hand "lifting off" the paint, even after it was completely dry! |
| posted by Angel @ 2:10 AM
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| Saturday, June 24, 2006 |
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Here's a greeting card I did in acrylics...with no prior "acrylic" experience. It was fine, only I would get "plastic blobs" sometimes, because the paint does dry too fast...I found out, they now have solved this and released a new brand of acrylics that don't dry immediately -- called Chroma Interactive Acrylics, they give you time to work and blend wet-to-wet. That said, I've had no trouble blending with regular acrylics, just think that this media, like any other, takes getting used to. Also, forget about brillancy of oils, they are not as alive as oils, but again, are quite acceptable for illustration.Labels: Greeting Cards |
| posted by Angel @ 1:52 AM
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| Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| Miriam sketch |
Here's a sample of "dynamic posing" -- obviouly, noone runs like that unless they are gymnasts on drugs. Or if its Miriam. Miriam is an alien fighting against Earth''s invasion, and also teaching my son his ABC's (pretty busy gal) . I am a fast feeler and a slow thinker, so it took me awhile to figure that the smile might look too fake...If you too think so feel free to critique.
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| posted by Angel @ 4:32 PM
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| Saturday, June 17, 2006 |
| If fishes were wishes... |
Fishes! Here are two cuties, now I can't wait to watercolor using Dr Martins inks...Inks for background, watercolors for "battleground"!Labels: Pencil Sketch |
| posted by Angel @ 9:03 PM
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| Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| Nib test! (And other tools comparison) |
I recently ordered many more nibs from John Neal to try out: Rose nib, and Gillott 9050 are the favorite ones, + Gillott 170! Each nib feels different, and for example Deleter pen with the Nikko nib is the more popular one(especially for manga inking) - but altough flexible, it's not flexible enough for my taste. In contrast, I also compared two of my brushes and a Pentel Fountain Pen...They are all my "favorite", but I found that I used the Brush Pen more often than not - you can give nice eyelashes and a nice, smooth from VERY thin to very thick line -- although the ink in this Pentel will not dry right away and will SMEAR under my hand if not given enough time!
That's why I got the "artist's ultimate whiteout" - and if you're one of my Ebay buyers, please don't read this! But the recommended by all Pro White totally sucked: not only it was too gunky, and "unspreadable", but when you put your drawing to the light, the pro white looks bright orange! Is that even reproductible? I now use only Aquacover by Creative Mark.
I now am the happy owner of a scanner, so I'm changing all the rules: to try more conventional illustration,(although I am illustrating my book in Painter) I want to do background first, then color in the lines, and LAST ink. I have recently discovered how to do Gorgeous, seemless backgrounds(and it's not airbrush!) -- now I just have to put these skills to the test.Labels: Reviews |
| posted by Angel @ 6:33 PM
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| Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| Picnic: cartoon |
I've had a little trouble scanning this image -- a family on a picnic. I started with a woman and got stuck with her crossed legs for awhile...A man only took me two minutes to sketch, a child - a little longer since I had to "fit" him in between. I think that bottle makes it too crowded, standing right before the woman's elbow. I want more "cartoony" images like this!Labels: Pencil Sketch |
| posted by Angel @ 2:08 PM
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