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Share your artwork v. BL's got talent

Everything Undead said is true!

You have to uplaod you art or pictures on other websites and then link to the image url.

Also if you have any photo are art pictures already on a website somewhere that you can view(like facebook or maybe a blog, or any other sharing website) and you can right-click any photo you want to use, then come to the thread and use the following code:

[COLOR="#800080"]yourlinkhere[/COLOR][/img ]

Only be sure to remove the space after the g on the last img. it should look like this:
 
^Neko I love your work, what medium do you use? I at least know your ink is classier than mine. how do you do it? sincerely, batman.
 
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I drew a foot?
 
muvolution said:
Batman, those pen drawings are pretty sick. You should experiment with ink washes inside them. Like a coloring book. For people on drugs.
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How do you suggest going about ink washes? Me and the pens have been with each other for a while now, and we're resistant to change.
 
You could get a metal quill pen and some very thin ink and do it thatway. It would be similar to what you already know.

But I really enjoy having 3 or 4 colors of a nice thick india ink and a ruling pen and doing pointillized color fills and such. Or taking a brush and using that same ink with water to get a thin but richly toned wash.
 
batmanplaybaseball said:
^Neko I love your work, what medium do you use? I at least know your ink is classier than mine. how do you do it? sincerely, batman.
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Thank you so much! I use a verity of mediums, but most the color you see in my work will be with watercolors. Most the stuff you see here will be a combo of pen, inks and watercolor. But there are plenty of occasions where i will used colored inks because once they dry they are alot more permanent than watercolors.

I always make sure i use pens that say they have permanent ink in them other wise they will run everywhere if you try to put a wash over it. I tend to draw with my pens or pencils first then will use color washes to help pop up my forms.

I think some simple color washes over some of your work would be really great looking. But the best way to find out is to try it. And keep trying. Find some old drawings you dont mind sacrificing to further your skills and get some watercolors and throw some color in there.

Just remember, when making a wash with a watercolor, the more water you add, the more transparent and therefor lighter in color your wash will look. I also recomend play with color mixing. Like never use a blue(or any color) straight out of the tube(or the watercolor cake in my case) try adding just a tiny pit of another color to your blue so that it changes the shade just a bit.

Good luck!<3
 
Nice.

I totally messed up a good drawing today. Then I kept messing it up until it was better than ever. I love when that happens.
 
^^ I call those "happy accidents" in my classroom!

Edit: I meant to tell you earlier too how much i love your drawings. I love the way your lines all ebb and flow, and the contrast between areas of busy detailed lines and the larger shapes that helps outline.
 
nekointheclouds said:
^^ I call those "happy accidents" in my classroom!

Edit: I meant to tell you earlier too how much i love your drawings. I love the way your lines all ebb and flow, and the contrast between areas of busy detailed lines and the larger shapes that helps outline.
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Thank you. I try to think of the negative(empty) space in a drawing as being as important as the positive(filled) space. Drawing to me is a lot like music and I often remember a quote from jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie, 'It's taken me all my life to lean what not to play'...


Edit: And another quote I like to keep in mind comes from Andy Warhol, 'I look at my canvas and I say, 'The space in that corner there needs a little blue,' and so I put my blue up there.'

It's so simple that it seems stupid but I think it perfectly describes working with art, and how it's a process of stepping back and looking at the whole thing for a moment and really feeling what the picture needs.
 
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Thanks. I was just telling Znegative in a PM how I got a new sketchbook yesterday. That series of drawings was done on 9x9 inch paper, (about 23x23cm). My new book is 14x17 inches, so it's about exactly three times larger. I drew up a really solid piece last night but the problem is I can't scan paper that large at home...


Oh yeah and the one thing I would change about that first drawing is that my pen was constantly running out of ink. But I couldn't switch to a new pen because it would have made an obvious change in the density of the lines. So the ink is uneven in some parts.
 
Welcome to Second Opinion, and the art thread! Your work is really great, do you work as an artist? That last piece reminds me of some of my illustration work I did when i did more editorial work! I look forward to seeing more!
 
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