+Gifts
My fiance and our best friend Ian's birthdays land on the same day so I was set to prepare a pair of gifts for them. They are both writers so I thought I'd customize a journal for each of them.
Here's Ryan's:
It features his 'Or Maybe Not' persona, writing more scrips for the comic. Which I will work on... I swear!
And Ian's journal:
It's a metaphorical portrait of a character of his from a story we are working on. I used colored pencil, ink and white gel pen for both journals.
While working on both journals I sketched out thumbnails trying to figure out what I wanted to draw on them and how. I ended up with a few sketches as a result of this that I ended up liking on their own.
+Pen Tests
During my weekly movie night with my friends I also did some inking pen tests.
This one is of Theolyn from my Alencia stories. I used a new ballpoint pen I picked up earlier this week. It's nice to work with but it does not take to pencil very well. This will probably stay a sketching pen.
I also did some brush pen tests to show myself that if I did Alencia's stories inked with a brush pen how it would look. Here's what I came up with.
Next I will do some actual comic pages inked with brush pen for a final test. I am pleased with the look so far. I can get lots of detail, line weight variation and contrast. (And that little rabbit at the bottom is Reach's rabbit Clover.)I didn't want to stretch this page too long so I'll be posting the best of my latest Dr. Sketchy's sketches later. Also, if I can't think of blog titles I may just stick to metal song titles from my Pandora station.
Back to work for me!
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