Posted: 15 April 2014 at 10:46am | IP Logged | 1
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Sometimes working with new tools can be like learning to draw again.
For most of my drawing life it was a simple number 2 pencil that was my weapon of choice. Mechanical pencils,Non photo blue pencils and red pencils and a lightbox. All relatively new tools for me.
Oh sure in school once or twice but nothing since. Now I'm liking them very much. In some ways they are very helpful in speeding up my time. Which was why I decided to try and use them.
What I'm discovering thou is that in someways I have to change my drawing mechanics.
I love how clean my work is staying now thanks to doing the layouts in blue or red. Much less smearing. But I'm tending to do too much drawing with those. So that when I go over them with the Mechanical pencil. I'm essentially tracing. Which becomes tedious and boring. Now if I could do my finished art in the blue that would be great.
Again having never done that before. I don't know maybe it would be acceptable to submit blue pencils to an inker. Anyone who that might now if it is okay please let me know.
The mechanical pencil is another thing. I'm use to drawing using the side of the pencil. In order to get different gray tones. Can't really do that now. So all in all. I'm enjoying the new tools but like I mentioned in the title. Sometimes it feels like I'm learning to draw again.
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