Sunday, 1 June 2008

Art: Severus (G)

Sunday, 1 June 2008 04:02 pm
sigune: (Jeanne Kefer)
I've made a new tag for "train art" :-). I only ever seem to get pictures done on the train these days... It's very quiet on the art front. The problem is that I have a few ideas for more complicated pictures, but I don't seem to get them right when I sit down and try to sketch. So here is a very simple Snape portrait that I made in the meantime.

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My train pictures are always in pencils. The train really shakes too much for me to be able to ink, and though I have entertained the idea of taking my watercolours with me (I have one of these tiny travelling kits), I dismissed the idea because it still takes a whole set-up with water bowls and tissues and something to protect the surface on which I am working. That, and there is the same shaking problem, of course. So, pencils.

Pencils can really get you lovely results on their own, so there is no reason to think that they should only be used for sketching the basis of pictures that will get another finishing. But personally I am not quite happy with the results I tend to get. With pencils, as with most other media, I just lack technique. I need to exercise and learn. One thing I have had to admit to myself while doing the Snape picture below is that for pencils, I am really better off with paper that is a bit grainier than the very smooth stuff I usually prefer. Smoothness is great for my inks, but for pencils? Naw.

Anyway: here is what I drew last Friday: Severus )

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