More from Inktober Week 3
MP: Coral
Let's begin with MP's lovely response to the prompt 'Coral'. MP has used an internet reference of red coral for colour, shape and inspiration. I will let her describe her process:
'I used Canson 300 GSM hot pressed paper with an underdrawing in HB graphite pencil and used a brush to apply the ink. I then wanted to bring some more structure to the coral by using the ink with a dip pen, however I found this rather tricky as the ink didn’t flow very well. I used Sennelier inks in scarlet, cobalt, turquoise, light yellow and violet and mixed them to get the colours I wanted.'
You have coped well with the Sennelier inks. They can take a bit of practice as they are a gum shellac based ink and tend to be rather viscous. As well, they dry quickly which can sometimes cause clogging in a nib if you do not work fast enough. But they have a wonderful intesity of colour and great lightfastness.
I love the colours you have used and mixing the different hues has given a good result. The 'watery' background works well. Your composition is pleasing and this is a nice work. Well done.
Monika: Sleep
Considered one of the most influential children's book illustrators of his generation, Walter Crane created some wonderful works that have been beloved by readers for decades. Monika has chosed to use his 'Sleeping Beauty' drawing to inspire her. She has used her A5 visual diary and a black fineliner pen. The original Crane work is highly detailed but Monika wanted to simplify it and feature Beauty keeping the Prince in the background. Originaly Monika was going to do the Prince in more crosshatched detail but felt it would be too overwhelming and so did a light outline of the Prince instead. Because Monika was working with only one weight of fineliner too much linework in the background could have created a conflict with the main feature - the Beauty. If I was going to do this drawing in this way, I would try and have pens with thin and thick nibs. Using a thicker nib on the foreground images bring them to the front and create emphasis. The thin nib is used on background images and the thinner lines cause those shapes to remain of less importance. This technique is commonly used in Graphic Novels (or comic books) in it's simplest form.
Monika has used thicker lines a bit in the Beauty and the result Monika has acheived is pleasing. I like the focus on the Beauty and how the Prince is secondary. Might I suggest study of fabric folds? Look at some Durer works or Rembrant drawings. You have achieved a good result with the medium using only a fineliner - don't be hesitant to experiement a bit more with line thickness and hatching. Another very good study, Monika.
Don: Outpost
Don has chosen a interesting subject this week, Mawson's Hut in the Antartic. He has sketched it in the Windsor Newton 120gsm visual art diary using a mix of Copic and Staedtler pens - 0.03, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2. A few liberties were taken with some of the details, but overall the form is good and the perspective is right. Drawing snow is 'interesting' to do in ink, but Don has worked out how to effectively show by allowing the positive shapes of the buildings to create the negative (white) space of the snow. Perspecitve shapes are not bad - tumble down buildings are very forgiving! Good line work in the buildings - as I said to Monika above, don't be too hesitant about experimenting more with shading and crosshatching, especially in the shadow sides of the hut.
The place looks cold. And the addition of the King Penguin reinforces this. Good job, Don.
'Outpost: Mawson's Hut, Antartica' by Don
KM: Coral
Like Monika above, KM found the prompt Coral an interesting one to draw. She has used a variety of different mediums as well as ink to create a very striking work. This is drawn on a blue paper (unknown brand or weight) with a combination of Faber Castell red, blue and purple pens as well as Derwent yellow, brown and green, as well as white and brown pastel pencils! Now all those mediums really shouldn't work this well together... or that is what I would have thought... but KM is not afraid to experiment and push the mediums and see what they all do when mixed up. And the result is a fabulous drawing!
The compostion is nicely balanced with good positive and negative use of the space. The soft coral fronds 'feel' like they are waving in the ocean current. The soft fronds contrast well with the solid, rock-like anchor of the harder coral. Picking out the white highlights of the hard coral with white pastel adds some drama to the drawing and is very effective. This is a really good work KM, congratulations!
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