Have a young Arthur. The gentleman is giving me trouble! I had scripted the passage in which he is introduced, but I hadn't laid it out yet because I felt something wasn't working quite right. At 3.30 this morning I resolved to approach the passage differently and to rewrite it. So that is what I will be doing.
Have a young Arthur. The gentleman is giving me trouble! I had scripted the passage in which he is introduced, but I hadn't laid it out yet because I felt something wasn't working quite right. At 3.30 this morning I resolved to approach the passage differently and to rewrite it. So that is what I will be doing.
Meanwhile, I'm trying out different types of paper for my definitive art. This is Lana Cold-Pressed. Though this paper has always been a favourite of mine, it seems it cannot take all the rubbing and erasing that went on during the sketch phase, so I guess that rules it out :(.
In case anyone is interested, the process I am using looks like this:
- I sketch my image in watercolour pencil.
- I ink with a Faber-Castell brush pen.
- I take a brush with water to the watercolour pencil lines to disperse them and turn them into a wash.
- I paint the picture.
2 comments:
If your favorite paper isn't taking to sketching well, try doing the sketching on a different sheet of something sturdier and then putting that over a lightbox and tracing it to do your inking onto the watercolor paper. Lightboxes are easy to make out of a wide low box, some plexiglass plastic and a few bright lights inside it. I used to use this method for all my watercolors back in the day when I did watercolor. (I need to get back into those, they are so very fun.)
I'm ahead of you there - the lightbox method is what I usually use. With this difference: I can't ink on a lightbox. I get distracted by the pencil lines and lose sight of the whole. So when I use a lightbox, I pencil a second time, which is hopelessly time-consuming. I have been trying to eliminate the lightbox part, though I guess I'll still be using it for complex scenes.
My methods are exceedingly unprofessional and I know it. But I have to develop a method that feels as comfortable and pleasant as possible, because I'm only going to be able to make it if this project is fun and doesn't feel like a chore. Drawing, then transferring and inking? Felt like a chore. I've tried it.
Everyone is cordially invited to say "I told you so!" if it all goes wrong ;). Promise.
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