determination and headless horses
I am Most Resolute; and this being the case, I'm going to stick progress updates here.. that way, they're staring me in the face (rawr) and I have to keep right on doing something about them!
From here down is pretty much just process nerdery; and unless you're into that sort of thing like I am, you're welcome to, you know, not read it.
In the upper-right is the original sketch; to the left is the sketch cropped to a 4:5 aspect ratio in Photoshop, dragged into Illustrator and scaled to 16" x 20", then printed out in tiles. To the right is where I've used blue Chacopaper to transfer it to a piece of Claybord. (Man, I wish they'd leave the damn 'a' in there, that annoys me no end. Bord. Gah.) Now I am working back over the transferred sketch with several types of pencil, trying to decide which gives the line quality that I want. So far I like the Graphitints the best, but they're water-soluble, and will proably go Everywhere when I try to seal this thing, to say nothing of paint over it.
Don't know about the blue Chacopaper yet, either. On the plus side, it can't be erased, although water will remove it. On the negative side, it can't be erased, although water will remove it. Hrm. I'm afraid that I'll be stuck with it once I've sealed this thing to keep the Graphitint from running away.
I could use some of my lovely, wonderful, delicious oil-based colored pencils, however they don't erase well at all.
Hrrrmph.
From here down is pretty much just process nerdery; and unless you're into that sort of thing like I am, you're welcome to, you know, not read it.
In the upper-right is the original sketch; to the left is the sketch cropped to a 4:5 aspect ratio in Photoshop, dragged into Illustrator and scaled to 16" x 20", then printed out in tiles. To the right is where I've used blue Chacopaper to transfer it to a piece of Claybord. (Man, I wish they'd leave the damn 'a' in there, that annoys me no end. Bord. Gah.) Now I am working back over the transferred sketch with several types of pencil, trying to decide which gives the line quality that I want. So far I like the Graphitints the best, but they're water-soluble, and will proably go Everywhere when I try to seal this thing, to say nothing of paint over it.
Don't know about the blue Chacopaper yet, either. On the plus side, it can't be erased, although water will remove it. On the negative side, it can't be erased, although water will remove it. Hrm. I'm afraid that I'll be stuck with it once I've sealed this thing to keep the Graphitint from running away.
I could use some of my lovely, wonderful, delicious oil-based colored pencils, however they don't erase well at all.
Hrrrmph.