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I've been meaning to start sketching and drawing again. I picked up some art supplies at Michael's back in the beginning of the summer but hadn't done anything with them. (The last time I intended to do some art, two years ago I think, I did a few sketches with halfway decent pencils and have no idea where they've gotten to since.) Inktober is a good excuse to start.
The Day 1 prompt was "Ring" so I (and, I'm sure, many others) went cinematic. I tweeted out a snapshot; maybe I'll put together a gallery of better-quality images later on. I did a still from the movie and used a Strathmore mixed media pad, 2H Faber Castell for sketching/blocking, and Pitt artist pens. I mostly wanted to experiment with the different tips. The foreground is S, the grass and some of the underbrush is F, underbrush is M and the trees, plus Samara's hair, are B. The stone texture is an old standby doodle for me. I'm not sure I should've used the brush for the trees, but they got covered anyway. As always, I am wary of overdoing the cross-hatching, à la The Drawing of the Dark. I'm not fond of the grass; I still need to work on the whole foreground-dark, background-light thing. I should've left a little more space around Samara's head---it gets a bit lost in the cross-hatching giving the well depth---but I do like the brush pen for that application.
The Day 1 prompt was "Ring" so I (and, I'm sure, many others) went cinematic. I tweeted out a snapshot; maybe I'll put together a gallery of better-quality images later on. I did a still from the movie and used a Strathmore mixed media pad, 2H Faber Castell for sketching/blocking, and Pitt artist pens. I mostly wanted to experiment with the different tips. The foreground is S, the grass and some of the underbrush is F, underbrush is M and the trees, plus Samara's hair, are B. The stone texture is an old standby doodle for me. I'm not sure I should've used the brush for the trees, but they got covered anyway. As always, I am wary of overdoing the cross-hatching, à la The Drawing of the Dark. I'm not fond of the grass; I still need to work on the whole foreground-dark, background-light thing. I should've left a little more space around Samara's head---it gets a bit lost in the cross-hatching giving the well depth---but I do like the brush pen for that application.
