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^ That is a crappy cell phone photo of pretty much the first ever traditional media A* artwork; I raced across town to the big art supply store on the weekend and grabbed a couple Faber-Castell "Pitt" brush pens (black: a big one and a small one), a couple Copic markers (Neutral Gray 2 & 4!), and a Staedtler white "Mars plastic" eraser. Armed with those, a 9"x12" sketchbook I dug up recently that I've had since at least my art major days in college (I graduated in '96 :o), and a mechanical pencil even older than that (I've had that baby since at least high school--don't think I've used it much since then), I plunked myself down on my apartment's ancient brown shag and tried to draw; that Selenis drawing is what came out.
I've been lusting after brush pens for a while! They're pretty fun--nice dark India ink. The Pitts are *pretty* fluid, although I certainly wouldn't mind if they were a bit wetter. Still, I think I will have uses for these in the future.
Copic markers are all the rage among a lot of comic (web and print) pros and amateurs, and they seem nice for what they are, but I don't think markers are my thing. Too slow! They're drier than the Pitts, so you have to move them pretty slowly if you want to get color or value down evenly. I don't like moving slow, as you can see by my completely improper and fairly ineffective use of them in that drawing. They got some gray in, which is what I wanted, but I don't think I'll go with markers for that in the future.
To which end I have some other traditional media toys now that I am going to go play with, since I was encouraged by this fairly successful (by my lights) first attempt with the markers and pens. Hopefully I will be able to show you another new non-computer-art A* thing tomorrow!
Oh! But if you would like to have this FIRST EVER A* non-computer drawing (and my first and probably last marker drawing :o) for your very own, I could be convinced to part with it for eh let's say $50. Plus $5 or $10 or whatever insured Priority Mail shipping will be, I gotta check on that. Anyway if you want it, just PM me on the A* forum, on Twitter, or on deviantART, and I'll get that worked out for you--first come, first served, of course, since there's only one. :o
Oh! #2! The paper is actually not like flesh-colored on her face there, that is some funky trick of the lighting and camera. The paper is more or less white, although I think (all my interior lights here are warm--don't have one of those expensive "full spectrum" lights they have these days :P...I work in black and white for gosh sakes!) it may be *slightly* tinted toward the yellow after all these years. I got it back before "acid free" and "archival" were all the rage in art paper. :P
Ooh, and I'll get an actual quality reproduction of it posted once the large-format scanner I ordered arrives--tracking says tomorrow! :o Whee I'm kind of excited to (nearly) have a scanner again, even though they take up a heck of a lot of space in my teeny little apartment.
EDIT: It occurs to me that this is probably the first non-total-doodle drawing I've tried doing without a computer in...um...uh...over a decade? Quite some time, anyway. Was relieved to find that the computer hadn't *totally* atrophied me when it comes to trying material art.
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