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| Pencil, Shmencil | Mar 15, 2014 10:29 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Thanks to everyone who came to my art show opening reception! With all the friends and family who showed up it turned into a pretty fun hangout. : ) Thanks also to the management of Leilani on Greenwood (102nd & Greenwood Avenue North in Seattle—my hypercolorful A* prints and other things will be there through the end of the month) for providing security and some tasty calorie-packed refreshments! : d
And it was actually almost a total coincidence that refreshments are a visible theme in today's A* page! (Just how much *did* I have brownies on the brain while I was painting this? : o) In pencil it looked kinda like this Instagram shot
and I decided to try painting without a big wet-on-wet "underpainting" phase to start with, so I could just do mostly -on-dry painting to keep some sharp white areas and so forth. That went all right and I was all set to upload it looking like this
when for some reason (I guess one thing was that I was flipping through the recent pages to compare the color balance and I'm kinda starting to like the fully-painted look I had in page 71, where I didn't leave much pencil behind) I decided to see what would happen if I got rid of the lines. So after much tidying up with an eraser and white ink and a dab of watercolor here and there, we ended up with the final version of today's page. Slightly messier than it would have been if I'd had the idea from the start, but I think maybe it was a good way to go. Also I was kind of happy to see—perhaps I'm just optimistically imagining this : oo—that there are some of those overlapping, almost polygonal layers of transparent colors coming together to build up the figure in interesting ways between the shoulder blades there and in the hair above them, like the similar but much more extensive and nicer structures I pointed out a while back in Bill Sienkiewicz's inspiring "Kelby" watercolor painting. So! I gotta figure out where those came from and try to do more of them. I think maybe it came from just kind of going at it freely with multiple colors and not worrying about keeping them segregated or something silly.
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Thanks to everyone who voted for A* in Comic Mix's March Madness webcomic tournament seeding round a few days back! I only gave you guys one day's notice—or half a day's notice, probably—and we still *nearly* made it into the tournament with our last-minute voting burst! So that was pretty cool. : ) (And now we don't have to worry about stressful "vs" matchups and more vote-offs, which is probably just as well. ; )
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