Added 1 new A* page:Uh. Hm. So over the weekend I got an awful itch to try going back to using gray ink washes, only I thought I came up with a way to do them that would solve some of the things that were irritating me the last time I stopped using them. I did a test sketch and that turned out pretty well (I'll scan it in when I get a chance), so naturally when I try to do a real A* page using the same method, it goes to heck. I had a snapshot of an early stage--when it was just a very light wash over pencil, with no erasing yet--which was the point where I was happiest with the thing; after that I tried to make it darker so it would reproduce well and be readily visible and all that, and it just didn't work; I can't figure how to get the subtle gradations I had in the light wash in a darker wash--I tried a dark wash version from scratch and it was hideous...although that may have been the fault of fatigue and frustration. Well anyhow, I poked at the photo of the early stage for a while in Photoshop, finally got a bit of contrast out of it without wrecking the nice subtle shades too badly, and behold and lo, when I threw those adjustment layers onto the original, color photo, it turned gold. Gold! Plus all that weird multicolor cheap photo noise was there too.
I don't think this is going to be a regular process... Hum. What will I do with tomorrow's? I have no idea! Come back and find out!
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