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  Them Ultramarine BluesDec 28, 2013 4:42 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Character design sketches with the Carbon Pen:
 
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Can you tell which one I settled on? Does today's page hold a clue? :p
 
I'm kind of missing the neatness of ink, how, you know, it's easy to get it so it's all one solid tone, not all internally messy like ink wash or watercolor. Tried the extra-pointy 8408 brush I mentioned uh maybe yesterday with ink--to my surprise, after it didn't work well at all with watercolor, it did work pretty well with ink:
 
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More ink, this time from the Pentel Pocket Brush (which doesn't do brushy very well, but does do solid all right):
 
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Hm I wonder if I should put that up as a 99 cent auction on eBay. Although I may have to raise my starting price for regular A* page auctions to something more than 99 cents, or switch to ink for shadows rather than doing "black" with a color, because somewhat to my shock I found today that in a week or so of blue shading I've already carved pretty much clear through my half-pan of Ultramarine Blue (Green Shade):
 
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Eek. Guess I'll have to order another one or three already, although given that they cost $8 a pop, I'm not sure how this is going to work out, economically. : p Meanwhile I could probably just dump the redder blue to the left of it, I don't really like that one--probably the purple next to that, too, come to think of it, although possibly I'll come up with some use for that one.
 
 
 
 
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