Today I developed yesterday’s more incomplete sketch. I started this sketch out with the modded Carbon pen but finished it with my trusty spoon nib dip pen and my bottle of thick, traditional Japanese Sumi ink, using the Tachikawa pen here and there. (I suspect the Tachikawa pen will be mentioned a lot on this […]
Sometimes the pen and ink fever just grips me and I end up staying away from pencils or digital tools for months at a time. This feels like one of those times. It’s not that I don’t love graphite or my Apple Pencil; it’s just that there’s something so special about the feeling of running […]
As always, while sketching in ink I prefer to keep it fast, loose, and without any kind of pencil underdrawing or erasing. Ink is the least forgiving of all sketching mediums, especially if you don’t like to pencil in a sketch before taking up the pen. I find the feeling of running a steel nib […]
I’ve been running low on inspiration, so have decided to focus on a broader range of subjects and techniques to keep myself interested. Although I generally enjoy figure drawing, and whilst doing sessions from time to time is excellent practice, I find it a very uninspiring activity when there’s not much else going on in […]
Things have been getting a little more disciplined and routine on the drawing front now, thanks in large part due to the storyboarding mentorship that started earlier in the month. What I really like about this mentorship is that it’s a full year long, with modules spaced out over the twelve months. This means that […]
I usually don’t like messing with the default brushes in Clip Studio Paint because they’re already so good, but every so often you come across a limitation with one of the stock brushes, like a fixed angle, that make you wish it performed just a bit more like the tools you’re more accustomed to. I’ve […]
Just more stuff I’ve been working on. So much of the early thumb-nailing and roughs are pencil on paper, and I have such a mediocre phone camera, and such laziness when it comes to actually using my very capable scanner, that I end up never digitally consolidating these sketches unless they’re going to be developed. […]
Page one of the graphic project Old Stones is complete, at least for now. What I discovered trying to refine my rough sketches into a graphic illustration was that I really, really suck at colour and lighting. Especially since the two are so intertwined, it becomes extremely frustrating trying to guess and make colour passes […]
This is really my first real attempt at sequential art outside of commercial storyboards (I didn’t really work on sequential frames as a storyboard artist back in the studio; it was a huge team of artists pulling everything together). This is the first time I have almost complete creative freedom, reigned in only by the […]
Yesterday I tried a short charcoal sketch in Procreate using Lane Brown’s Charcoal master pack, and over an hour passed and I just couldn’t stop playing. Below is the result of that trial run. Probably the best thing about these brushes is that they give me access to virtual versions of really high quality tools […]
