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  The Battle of Blight and WhackNov 15, 2013 2:08 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:I thought I was onto a good thing with something I've done sort of accidentally lately, namely "drawing" something by screwing it up to the point where I have to completely redo it with layers of white and black ink--rather than just using black ink over a pencil sketch; the alternating back and forth of white and black is a lot like the digital A* drawings I used to do with Photoshop's Lasso Tool, and you pretty much get rid of lines and are just working with masses, which is nice since lines are, you know, pretty artificial. Treban two pages back came out as a result of that back-and-forth process, as did Selenis' head on page 25.
 
The problem with this approach is that it takes forever--lots of waiting for ink to dry, or in my case not being patient enough to wait long enough and then getting things all messy--and gets increasingly inflexible as ridges and mounds and things start to build up. So if you can get it in one or two tries, that's good, but past that you're in trouble. I'd already done it once or twice for Treban in today's page, and thought it was pretty good and had already put up the ink drawing for auction, but while checking the digital coloring job I then went and did on it, a couple things about her face started bugging me--the cheek and chin--and after mocking up alterations in Photoshop I went back to the actual drawing and tried to touch it up. But it was already thick with ink and maybe that didn't help; anyway I screwed it up. I scraped away and repainted the figure a few more times and finally thought I had it down okay but scanning it in and comparing it with the previous version I'd scanned showed that it was actually just getting worse and worse.
 
Phooey! So in the end I had to use the original scan and just touch it up digitally, which is great and all except that I don't have an original piece of artwork left from it to sell. So I guess relying on the ink-on-ink method is not really feasible, which is too bad because that back-and-forth sometimes seems like it really cuts right down to the essence of what I'm going for. Oh well I guess I should try to get that done by regular pencil and ink work from the beginning like a real illustrator. : P Would save a lot of time, too! Soo yeah I guess I learned something, anyway. (But I hadn't screwed a page up irrevocably since page 9! Ruined a pretty good streak. : P)
 
 
 
 
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