Last night Rik and I went to somnialcat's place to hang out. We watched some "Firefly" and "Repo Man". I doodled while watching the movie
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(The last one, with the red, was done after I came home; I didn't have the red pen on me when we were out.)
Near the beginning of this swath of stuff, left out of the scanning, is a bit of text with an ornate frame: "Lignee Clairé". I quite probably spelt it wrong. It's French for "clear line", and is the usual term for a certain style of cartooning, epitomized by stuff like Tintin: very simple lines, no line weight at all. Clear lines that just show edges rather than showing weight or differentiating objects. And that's where the combination of these pens and the small sketchbook took me.
The exact word for it would have to be "ligne claire", but what you'd already written was already similar enough for anyone who doesn't want to get finicky, and you get bonus points for even knowing about it - I didn't - nevermind actually drawing in it. :>
It's all scribbly! I feel like I should have done more scribbling in this batch, but I was drawing pretty much everything with this slow, methodical hand.
I think i understand why cartooning from the seventies looks the way it does. Combine the proper chemicals with sudden widespread availability of fine-line pens, and you get this. Really.
and it's interesting to watch myself draw with parts of my brain shut off.
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Near the beginning of this swath of stuff, left out of the scanning, is a bit of text with an ornate frame: "Lignee Clairé". I quite probably spelt it wrong. It's French for "clear line", and is the usual term for a certain style of cartooning, epitomized by stuff like Tintin: very simple lines, no line weight at all. Clear lines that just show edges rather than showing weight or differentiating objects. And that's where the combination of these pens and the small sketchbook took me.
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We begin with the dance of the dead
Blackened! in the end
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and it's interesting to watch myself draw with parts of my brain shut off.
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