Extatic about new discovery
I suppose it's not really a discovery, on a world scale, but it is in my little drawing universe.
In order to solve the "How to manage to BOTH colour something AND keep the original drawing as much as possible" -problem my kiddy book teacher put me in, I started experimenting.
As said before, pastel, my favourite medium, was no option as it resulted in too big drawings. :(
The painting techniques I had until then killed the pencil lines. I could repaint over them, but it took away all spontaneity, and the lines were too tick for my tastes. It looked and felt mechanic.
Jan studies a lot lately, so I've had plenty of time to make regular pencil sketches. I photograph them, and then I resolve to experiment on them, even if total ruin of a hard-work sketch is likely to occur.
One of the experiments consisted in watercolouring a finished drawing while attempting to keep the underlying pencil lines visible.
This was the result (It's a Warhammer character some of you know btw):
As you can see, the result was bad: the pencil lines were drowned AND the colours fade, as a result of my attempt to keep them subdued.
I was a little sad, and tried to redraw in pencil over it. It didn't quite help. So I started the real experiment: I tested a stylus (stift) and then a regular bic-pen, and then, chinese ink, believing all three would lead to similar results.
One of the tests:
The stift (first on the left) really sucked: it was thick, made boringly equal lines and violettish instead of black. The black bic allowed for a lot of freedom of movement, and nuances. However, it was way too light.. The pen-and-chines-ink thing was orgastic. It combined the thinnest lines I've ever drawed with the blackest black and plenty of possibilities for nuances. (Too bad the drawing itself was the worst out of three, but so be it)
I couldn't hold myself and made some direct sketches to see how I could use it best.
This thing is much smaller irl
Funny thing is: Jan thinks that this is a girl, while I was conviced it was a guy.
I filled in Carlotta like this:
In my opinion, it is much, much better than how I finished previous watercolour paintings:
I'm planning to test a lot more, (chinese ink is such a pleasure) so see you soon with my new experiments!
In order to solve the "How to manage to BOTH colour something AND keep the original drawing as much as possible" -problem my kiddy book teacher put me in, I started experimenting.
As said before, pastel, my favourite medium, was no option as it resulted in too big drawings. :(
The painting techniques I had until then killed the pencil lines. I could repaint over them, but it took away all spontaneity, and the lines were too tick for my tastes. It looked and felt mechanic.
Jan studies a lot lately, so I've had plenty of time to make regular pencil sketches. I photograph them, and then I resolve to experiment on them, even if total ruin of a hard-work sketch is likely to occur.
One of the experiments consisted in watercolouring a finished drawing while attempting to keep the underlying pencil lines visible.
This was the result (It's a Warhammer character some of you know btw):
As you can see, the result was bad: the pencil lines were drowned AND the colours fade, as a result of my attempt to keep them subdued.
I was a little sad, and tried to redraw in pencil over it. It didn't quite help. So I started the real experiment: I tested a stylus (stift) and then a regular bic-pen, and then, chinese ink, believing all three would lead to similar results.
One of the tests:
The stift (first on the left) really sucked: it was thick, made boringly equal lines and violettish instead of black. The black bic allowed for a lot of freedom of movement, and nuances. However, it was way too light.. The pen-and-chines-ink thing was orgastic. It combined the thinnest lines I've ever drawed with the blackest black and plenty of possibilities for nuances. (Too bad the drawing itself was the worst out of three, but so be it)
I couldn't hold myself and made some direct sketches to see how I could use it best.
This thing is much smaller irl
Funny thing is: Jan thinks that this is a girl, while I was conviced it was a guy.
I filled in Carlotta like this:
In my opinion, it is much, much better than how I finished previous watercolour paintings:
I'm planning to test a lot more, (chinese ink is such a pleasure) so see you soon with my new experiments!