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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 21, 2017 14:07:39 GMT -5
thanks so much!  and now, an undead victim of the Crimean Wars...  over 90% nib-work Do you have a favourite nib? I tried a Hunt 102 for a while but it's so fine that the art becomes very art to reproduce if it has to be reduced. I always go back to the Speedball C-6. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 21, 2017 14:08:32 GMT -5
That's really nice... really nice! |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 22, 2017 1:32:19 GMT -5
fave nibs: hunt 100, 104, 22, and 'elf globe'. these days also a modified fountain pen. i must stress that western inks have gone downhill in the past 10 years as bemoaned by PCR and others, so i reccomend going with 'sailor' brand from japan, fab stuff! and thx for the compiments on the last piece; it was done with a 1988 tombo brand brush pen dipped in sailor-ink i also dig your work, very very much |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 22, 2017 1:59:21 GMT -5
thanks so much! Do you have a favourite nib? I tried a Hunt 102 for a while but it's so fine that the art becomes very art to reproduce if it has to be reduced. I always go back to the Speedball C-6. i used to enjoy the Speedball C-6, as it gave a very 'Gil Kane' style line. the 102 was a bit too 'scritchy' for me, and demanded a board with a 'stiffer' coating; example - 1990's dc interior board vs 1990's marvel board, and god help you if you used it on comico or dark horse boards, lol. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 22, 2017 4:51:07 GMT -5
Jean Giraud letters with a brush. *faints* As does another of my favourite, artists Jamie Smart: |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 22, 2017 6:50:24 GMT -5
fave nibs: hunt 100, 104, 22, and 'elf globe'. these days also a modified fountain pen. i must stress that western inks have gone downhill in the past 10 years as bemoaned by PCR and others, so i reccomend going with 'sailor' brand from japan. I wasn't just imagining it, then... Although I finally found a brand of ink that's satisfactiry (Pebeo india ink), many of the ones I got over the past ten years are depressingly grey... and don't get me started on pre-filled pen brushes. Grey ink that gets erased away! |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 24, 2017 1:07:38 GMT -5
Pebeo is fab,and yes on the erasure woes!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 26, 2017 9:07:13 GMT -5
fantasy piece, unfinished, Pitt brush pen only  |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 27, 2017 16:59:51 GMT -5
Hence why few millenials (in the USA) bother to train themselves to ink with a brush. Reading through a pile of modern American comics today I was reminded of this post. It seems that few millenials bother to learn to draw any more, let alone ink. Most of the art was obviously photoreferenced - rendered from posed, or sourced images collaged together - and then (sometimes very skilfully and slickly) traced. Wally Wood would have been proud. I prefer my comics drawn. |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 30, 2017 7:15:52 GMT -5
Hence why few millenials (in the USA) bother to train themselves to ink with a brush. Reading through a pile of modern American comics today I was reminded of this post. It seems that few millenials bother to learn to draw any more, let alone ink. Most of the art was obviously photoreferenced - rendered from posed, or sourced images collaged together - and then (sometimes very skilfully and slickly) traced. Wally Wood would have been proud. I prefer my comics drawn. sadly true. i fear 'inking' (meaning no wacom wan - - ge) is destined to die, exceptb in boutique comics and b/w comics. |
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