Week 20/Week 1 Inktober continued...
MP: Blades
Guess whos been doing a bit of gardening this week? MP pulled up some grass and drew it from life using a nib pen with Amsterdam Black Acryic ink on Canson 220 paper. She has added a bit of olive green watercolor pencil washed to add some green hues to the drawing. Additionally, the shadows are created with diluted ink and brushed in with a great result.
This is a very good drawing MP! The composition is great and the way you have used the shadow and line is effective. The addtion of the tangled root system works well and is mirrored by the one right blade that is dried off and reflects the squiggles of the roots. Nice work!
Don: Whisp
Don tells me he tried a few of the prompts before settling on Whisp. He has used black Uniball 0.1 and 0.2 fineliner in a Windsor Newton A5 drawing pad to create this portrait of a young woman with a whisp of hair across her face.
I think this is a great interpretation of the prompt. As well, the facial features and proportions are quite good. The mouth especially is well drawn. Don has also captured the piercing, slightly confronting gaze in the eyes well. The hair is quite stylistic and translates to 'whisp'. I am not sure that the squiggle lines was the best way to add tone to the skin. But this is difficult to do if you have never tried it before. There are some different techniqes - one is pointilism which we have discussed before and is tedious - another is using contour lines. A great video I have used before HERE demonstrates this and is well worth a look.
In spite of my reservations about the skin tone, the more I look at this work the more it engages me.
Silke: Bulky
Silke has embraced the entire INKTOBER concept and is doing a drawaing a day. You can all her works on her Instagram page HERE, but she has selected 'Bulky' to show on my blog. She has picked up a heap of new ink related art supplies she is experimenting with. For this drawing she has used a new Handbook watercolor book which is a lovely 200gsm cold press paper. She has drawn with a fineliner, and a black brush pen she bought in Japan and a grey Ecoline brushpen.
This a really fun drawing and it expresses the theme 'Bulky' in a excellent way. I love the way the large figure is pressed up against the confines of the page border, squeezing his smaller friends. Keep up the good work Silke - I will enjoy watching your Instagram page.
Jean
Windsor & Newton ink with a nib pen on 300gsm hot press was Jean's choice of media this week, and 'Whisp' was her theme. She tells me she found it hard to get contrast and fine lines and even used the back of her nib to try and get very fine lines. She has asked me about her technique and isn't quite happy with the result - which has me a bit flabberghasted! I LOVE this technique Jean has used and really enjoy this result. Perhaps it is a bit dark in some places, but overall it works really well. It has a very graphic and design feel to the work that I think is very successful.
If Jean wanted to, she could remove some of the excess and thin some lines by using a very sharp scalpel blade and carefull scratching linework back. This is most successfully done on a hot press or bristol board, but you do need to be gentle and very careful and lightly scrape the ink only to avoid digging holes into the paper. Also, you can't really draw over that section again because the surface will be roughed up. I don't think it is really needed in this drawing, but if you wanted to try it see how it works on the leaves first. Personally, I think it is a great drawing.
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