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Art: Class Rules (G)
Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:59 pmHee. I can try, can't I, to post a picture a day? I have enough material, though it's not all equally finished - in the sense of having got beyond the sketch stage. I have been dreaming about my Gawain Project a lot, and have done quite a few ballpoint pen sketches.
Somehow I have suddenly started liking the ballpoint pen as a drawing utensil. Maybe it is because I can't erase the ink. Whatever I draw with it is spontaneous and keeps a kind of ... lack of artifice? unstudied-ness? ... something like that. I am also trying - but this is really very difficult for me - to become more fluent in my line work. When I draw, I lack confidence (a lot), and every line consists of small traits that I smoothe out afterwards. That is not how it should be. A good line is firm and bold.
Do you know that I am incapable of drawing the basic of basics - a straight line? How stupid is that?
It has become quite an automatism with me to use small traits. So I am trying to remedy that. With the ballpoint pen, I have also rediscovered my Moleskine booklets. Their lightly tinted paper really didn't give great results with pencils, especially as I never apply a lot of pressure to my pencil when drawing - again, lack of confidence. Ballpoint ink, however, shows up nicely. And guess what: it's scan-friendly too! :D
So nowadays I am not going anywhere without a ballpoint pen and a tiny Moleskine cahier - light, small, and so satisfying :-).
All this is a kind of run-up to the fact that the picture I am posting today is drawn with a ballpoint pen. It's a bit of a departure from the pictures you are used to from me, because - well, I didn't do a pencil sketch, but threw this Snape straight onto the paper. There are a few help lines there that I didn't Photoshop away, and on the whole the picture is just not as clean as when I pencil and ink. But it's very spontaneous, and I'm surprisingly pleased with it. One thing I am not entirely sure about is the combination of blue ballpoint pen inking (the only pen I really like for drawing happens to be blue) and ... watercolour.
Well, I guess you can judge for yourselves :-).
(I hope the unusually large preview doesn't cause anyone trouble; I just wanted to show some of the detail...)
( Class Rules )
Somehow I have suddenly started liking the ballpoint pen as a drawing utensil. Maybe it is because I can't erase the ink. Whatever I draw with it is spontaneous and keeps a kind of ... lack of artifice? unstudied-ness? ... something like that. I am also trying - but this is really very difficult for me - to become more fluent in my line work. When I draw, I lack confidence (a lot), and every line consists of small traits that I smoothe out afterwards. That is not how it should be. A good line is firm and bold.
Do you know that I am incapable of drawing the basic of basics - a straight line? How stupid is that?
It has become quite an automatism with me to use small traits. So I am trying to remedy that. With the ballpoint pen, I have also rediscovered my Moleskine booklets. Their lightly tinted paper really didn't give great results with pencils, especially as I never apply a lot of pressure to my pencil when drawing - again, lack of confidence. Ballpoint ink, however, shows up nicely. And guess what: it's scan-friendly too! :D
So nowadays I am not going anywhere without a ballpoint pen and a tiny Moleskine cahier - light, small, and so satisfying :-).
All this is a kind of run-up to the fact that the picture I am posting today is drawn with a ballpoint pen. It's a bit of a departure from the pictures you are used to from me, because - well, I didn't do a pencil sketch, but threw this Snape straight onto the paper. There are a few help lines there that I didn't Photoshop away, and on the whole the picture is just not as clean as when I pencil and ink. But it's very spontaneous, and I'm surprisingly pleased with it. One thing I am not entirely sure about is the combination of blue ballpoint pen inking (the only pen I really like for drawing happens to be blue) and ... watercolour.
Well, I guess you can judge for yourselves :-).
(I hope the unusually large preview doesn't cause anyone trouble; I just wanted to show some of the detail...)
( Class Rules )
