Long time no post! Just a quick recent illo done in Painter. Again, deadlines were tight so I new going in I was gonna use a coloured canvas for this one - the rest of it is a subtle digital watercolour wash for the tones, and the main line art was done using a solid black 'scratchboard tool' pen.
The lines are quite varied in thickness, achieved by having the size of the brush be quite big, but using a light touch with the wacom where I could. There wasn't as much undoing and re-drawing as I thought there would be (my fingers are normally sitting on CTRL+Z) when doing the quick lines - I like to keep it looking fresh, but obviously taking advantage of the fact that I'm not drawing with real ink to keep redoing lines until I'm satisfied!
Ah, technology. At this rate I'll never learn the proper craft of inking...
Ok, so I felt like I was doodling comic art when I should be doing something else in my art class in school when I did this, but it was fun, dammit!
Quick sketch of an old man's face. Seems like he should almost be a vulcan, so maybe I'll add pointy ears and tweak his eyebrows a bit next time!
I had this random image of a shark's fin sticking out of a paddling pool/tub in my head yesterday, so viola! This morning's warm up sketch!
Ah, reminds me of my days watching 'Take Hart', the kids art show on tv back in the 80s, when I was a young 'un! Tony Hart always seemed to be doing these awesome sketches with pastel, chalk or charcoal on coloured paper - I'm still trying to get close to how good I remember those drawings were now!
I stumbled upon this great blog http://threemeninatub.blogspot.com/ and thought doing a 'warm up' sketch each day was a great way to get the juices flowing before you begin any major illustration work!
Quick sketch, using ink and watercolour (well, the 'Scratchboard Tool' and 'Broad Water Brush' in Painter!)
