some new style choices ~

so the one on the left is pen and colored pencil ~ some interesting shading/color things happen there. i like that picture in particular (it's C. Sharp ~ hahahaha okay i never got that joke until now). other pictures in the same vein didn't fare as well though, so i feel sketchy about it.

the one on the right is a variety of pens and gouache ~ it has that thick-rind look with the softer details and then just a slight wash of color. i like it! dunno how consistent i can make it work, but for a first run, it's kinda interesting. certainly very very clean, which is not like me at all (i tend to prefer the scritchy scratchy sketchy stuff). but it reminds me of certain foreign comics, the look of which i tend to like very much. i'm gonna play with it some more.

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progress ~

so i scribbled a handful of the "usual suspects" and i'm finding this style very quick and forgiving ~ two major plusses. these aren't the best picts in the world, but they are literally thirty-second sketches and yet with the crisp lines, they look like they took a great deal more effort. anyway, the point isn't to make the pictures look like they were more work than they were ~ the point is to make less work!



it's also worth noting that this scan is larger than the actual image (hence some of the wonky lines) ~ these were drawn on business cards and so are about two-thirds this size in real life.

and here's the kicker: portraits are easy. i can doodle faces all day long. it's when i have to draw other things that i get into trouble. i guess the next test is to actually do a sequence and see if i can make it work.

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