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Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Ink drawing...zombies...

Often, when working in a sketchbook, I have no idea what I'm going to draw. I let the pencil do the walking and the image slowly appears, is erased, worked on and then finished. This time zombies evolved from the sketches.

When I'm working with colour I often feel that the pencil drawings or inked in lines beneath are lost. And I don't always remember to scan in each stage as a record or in case I want to print out further copies. This time I stopped at the line drawing. Black ink on white paper.

Am not that keen on the usual zombie movies/tv series, but I really liked iZombie (Season 3 due April 2017 on Netflix) and the UK series In The Flesh (boo hiss, Beeb 3, for not renewing a third series).

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Friday, 18 November 2016

day 19 & day 20 of illustrating Sinead's writing...

Although not in time for the Event at The Guesthouse the final two days of Sinead O'Donnell's writing from her residency are now illustrated. I really liked Sinead's writing, a quirky mix of fact and fantasy. It was nice to get back into that mode once more.

Day 19

Day 20

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Friday, 14 October 2016

#inktober challenge...

There's been a challenge going round called #inktober which is as it sounds - drawing with black ink during October. I began with a simple scribble and built up the picture using Pentel brushpen (which I've only just found out takes an replaceable ink cartridge - duh!), black ink from an ancient bottle of Pelikan, a black Sharpie and a selection of uniPin fineliners 0.1 - 0.8. I also used a little uni-ball Signo broad white gel pen (found some on Amazon).

Liked the rough texture which the brushpen created - sometimes a pen running out of ink can give interesting marks. I dropped the Pelikan ink onto the paper and blew at it using a straw. The tiny feathered lines were extended using fineliners. I had worked on the white circle on the left and didn't like it, so the Sharpie filled that in and the white gel pen was added on top to reclaim the white circle - I stopped myself from applying further layers of white to make it dense white - I really liked the woodcut effect. Tiny lines with a 0.1 fineliner extended the brushpen marks.

At one point I got quite irritated with what I was doing and scrawled over the top, throwing it to oneside before going to bed. In the bright light of morning I saw that I could finish it and adapted the scrawl into the overall image. I also realised I had been scanning each stage of the picture as Black & White. This gives a stark very well defined look. So when I had finished the piece I also scanned it in grey tones...looks very different - I especially like the greyness of the Pelikan ink.

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