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  Surprise Tikky sketches, same ol' faceSep 05, 2012 7:31 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Only got the one page done today. Been working on a couple new/modified drawing tools, but I need some more time with them before I can say anything definitive about them, so perhaps I'll plague you with that information in another day or two.
 
It is *not* Selenis with a sudden haircut / bleach job in today's page... I just can't seem to want to draw a different facial type. :P After having to draw the more elderly bioarchivist earlier in this episode for what seemed like a LOT of pages in that conversation, I swore a bitter oath that I wouldn't draw any more non-beautiful women...and apparently I have a very narrow definition of facial beauty, blargh. Or what's more likely, a very narrow variety of "beautiful" faces that I think I can actually draw. But I'm hardly the first artist to get stuck on a facial type--there was Frazetta and his moon-faced girls, for instance, and innumerable comic book artists over the decades, etc. Not that I shouldn't try to bust out of this rut. But I like the rut. HM.
 
I *did* draw her lower lip and chin *slightly* more recessed than I would have drawn Selenis'...but I was fooling myself if I thought that was a meaningful difference. :"P
 
Anyway anyway I do have another bunch of drawings--oh those familiar faces though...--that I did over the weekend. Speaking of Frazetta, I'd just been going through a whole bunch of Frazetta material, and I'd had the urge to do some free sketching all weekend, so I sat down and did some, which was fun--although I think the Frazetta stuff had an influence on some of the subjects my hand decided to draw:
 
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Couldn't quite fit that knee in my scanner. :p Close-up of the two rather more successful figures:
 
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That was pencil (poorly erased in some spots I see, but I was working on a sheet of old Strathmore Bristol I have laying around, rather than my usual Canson Illustrator paper, and the spongier bristol is definitely harder to erase from, urgh), inked with a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3 mm marker, and then sorta shaded with Faber-Castell "big brush" artist series "cold grey IV 233" marker. I'd thought I was going to use a different inking marker--maybe a Kuretake Disposable, or a Copic Multiliner--but the Tikky turned out to be the only one whose ink flow could keep up when doing rapid sketching. I was pretty hard on the Tikky in my Supermassive Black Pen Round-Up back in May, and it's true that it is too "wet" for slow, fine detail work, or feathering, but darned if it isn't the only micro-tip art marker I know of that'll maintain a real solid line when working quickly.
 
 
 
 
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