Yet another round of character studies for the book I am working on. I do most of these at the ballfield when I am supposed to be watching and cheering on my kid's teams. "Uhh, yeah - I saw that great double play you made at second... oh yeah I meant at third base. Yeah I saw the whole thing."
Yesterday's sketch got diet coke spilled on it - today I started fresh, flipped the composition so it reads left to right (bothers me when images lead me in the opposite direction of the page turn).
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Nice sketch. I do my best work at ballet practice. ;)
These are fun. Did you see Gurney's blog on 6/5 with his B&W ink and WC sketch? I'm confused about one thing: in your previous post you referred to these as "line art". I thought line art referred to only line, whereas these sketches would have to be reproduced as half-tones.
Karen I am the same way about characters or things leading you to the next page. Nice to hear someone else is too.
Thanks guys!
Yes, Connie I always look at Gurney's blog. I even looked for a water brush at the local craft store after that post (no luck). Consie Powell carries one with her all the time, with a tiny little w/c kit she MADE out of and Altoids tin, sculpey, and tube watercolors. She also makes her own sketch books out of watercolor paper and they are amazing, not just what's inside but the entire little book cover to cover.
I did do the little girl portrait as line art with a brush and then couldn't stop myself from coloring it to see if the ink stayed put. This little doodle is really a sketch but I have done "real" jobs that were halftoned line art like this. I also did a logo recently that I did as a pencil line, scanned at 600 dpi, cleaned up and beefed up in Photoshop, then did a live trace in Illustrator for excellent results.
And yes Sherry, although sometimes I wonder if I am limiting myself with that little peeve, but when I see other people do it I cringe.
xo Karen
Those brushes are hard to come by. I've find them every so often at Michaels.
At the art store, in the kid's section... I've found them already filled with color. I just empty and clean them really well.
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