Hi!
After a two year long break, my vacation is finally over for now.
I decided to do this blog again, but instead of using it as an online album, I would rather show my fails and processes. Perhaps also share some insights into how I think while I make, and make mistakes. I think my comment section is open for everyone, but if you have some difficulties, please send me an e-mail at:
artalamex@gmail.com
It would be really nice to read any feedback! I'm not the most active SNS user, but I'll try to update this blog once a month. And sometimes whenever.
First thing of the day:
Summer drawing.
The drawing started this June. I got my hands some new sheets of paper from Canson called "The Wall". The paper is bleed-proof deluxe, and super for any messy ink-based shenanigans. It's thick and smooth. My pens came from Uni and where a variety of sizes. Also a Uni-brush pen.
I started doing fast aggressive, thick lines across the sheet, then I added thinner lines. Flow was key here. Some of the first thicker lines got some small adjustments to match this flow. I stopped when I couldn't see any benefit from adding more lines.
Then scanned in 600 dpi (bitmap), and saved it as an RGB-color image.
In Photoshop I always put the original scan as the first layer (from the bottom) just in case I get lost and need a reference. The second layer is a color to set the mood, and so I pick colors to accomodate this early vibe. Then follows two identical layers where only the isolated linework is (strek is "line" in norwegian).
Layer 3 I use for coloring and the top layer (#4) is just the lines, in case my coloring gets out of hand and it bleeds over and diffuse the linework, I always have crisp lines.
Just make the background layer all black!
For now it looks like this. You can still see a lot of background mood-color. My next steps is to finish coloring this, and in the process discover new gaps I've made in the lines (GAWD!). Then I think I will make several attempts at color-adjustments with the genius ctrl+U. It's a quick vibe-checker!
I definitely see you here when I'm done. :-)
Jørgen
