"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson and art

[lantairvlea]

Two more books down. I really need to sit down at my computer and cancel this Audible subscription because I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it from my phone in the app

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monochrome

[pigshitpoet]

have you tried using watercolor pencils?
they can be the best of both worlds when you get used to them
you draw with them like coloring pencils
and when you wet them with a brush they turn to watercolour washes
you can then build layers using both techniques for quite a dynamic effect
also using eraser techniques you can cut back into them
or dipping the tips in water make them fright and high contrast like marker pens
staedtler makes some

mind you i've seen people who can do amazing things with prismacolor
or faber castel pencil crayons for sharp realistic results
high realism

anyway, i like your drawing

RE: monochrome

[lantairvlea]

Thank you!

It has been a long time since I last picked up watercolor pencils. I recently acquired a larger set of them to play with, but haven't had the mind and the moment to put them to use just yet.

I think the paper I was working with lacked tooth to really take in the pencils as much as I would like it to, but it did well enough for the exercise. We'll see how it holds up to further experimentation as I draw samples for the rest of the color schemes.

RE: monochrome

[pigshitpoet]

use a good all purpose smooth vellum finish that can take wet media,
so, like a good graphic design pad, heavy weight, ie. 120lb is best
some people like textured surfaces for more painterly results
but for articulation and detail, smooth vellum is best
that doesn't mean bristol, nor clay polished mediums which are for ink
it's more related to charcoal drawing and watercolour for the wc pencils

i also use a separate note sketch to test colours and techniques like a library to work from
after a year it becomes a formidable tool and records colour schemes and how you did them
so you can repeat the techniques when you want them

a good thing is to make an art date with yourself to go at it
like a regular time every week for starters
then add time as you feel necessary

and don't forget to feed the horses
LOL

[geminiwench]

That's the thing about some of the really great novels that became folklore through so many retellings... is we THINK we know the story because we're familiar with the retellings... but how often the depth of the original story (which is what made it so powerful and creative that it became popular for retelling) is lost in translation. Some of those stories are so DEEP in their original form... and the content we got via osmosis through culture has the framework *right* but so many of the meaningful details are simply not carried through.