Flaming ArtistThis drawing was done with
Prismacolors. I painted the background with off-white acrylic paint.
Prismacolor was my favorite media for working in color before I went to art college. I
still have a soft spot in my heart for them. I like being able to layer colors
and achieve subtle effects with them. Unlike watercolor, they are extremely
forgiving. They don’t demand commitment.
FINLAND! Land of Tom and the
best educational system in Europe (according to Wikipedia).
This photograph of the
pediment of Helsinki’s House of Estates has been modified only slightly; those
18th century dudes had pretty bulgy codpieces. I guess Tom came from
good genetic stock.
I used
Prismacolors and judiciously applied White-out correction pen.
Today’s drawing is a riff on yesterday’s drawing (done
on October 4, 2012). Once again, I was using the dreaded Tombo brush pens. I
like this drawing, however (as opposed to the drawing I posted on October 9).
I’m not sure why I like it better. The dick is nice. The two shades of muted
cool gray are pleasant. I had an art teacher who opined that drawing in any color other that black was
cheating, in so far as any other color adds interest or entertainment value to
the drawing. Perhaps he was right.
Another ballpoint pen
sketch, inspired by the previous day’s embossment. To see what I mean,
superimpose this drawing on that from October 3rd. Or take my word
for it.
Another
vaguely Picasso-esque drawing.
Yet again, ballpoint pen. No dicks this time around. I
was inspired by the previous day’s drawing, also in ballpoint pen, which had
subtly embossed the paper underneath, the paper I used for this day’s sketch. I
studied the abstract shapes of the embossment, letting them suggest what they
would, coming up with this depiction of a macho merman. If he had a dick, I’m
sure it would be impressive.
This was limned quickly,
with no preparatory under-drawing, using ballpoint pen. No corrections were
made; I left the “mistakes” as a signifier of spontaneity.
Unlike Tuesday’s posting of
a sketch made on September 29, 2012, I like this drawing’s crudity. It sort of
reminds me of Picasso’s post-cubist etchings, or of Matisse at his more
realistic.
I
speak of the artist who drew this almost as he were a person other than myself;
I didn’t really control what came out onto paper from the pen. My choice was in
accepting it as “good”.
So I’m revisiting
yesterday’s drawing, trying to correct the “mistake” therein. I traced the
drawing scan in Photoshop, then scanned in a blank page of the American Express
Date Book to use as a BG, for the sake of consistency.
I find it weird, drawing in
Photoshop. I spend 8+ hours a day at my job (storyboarding on “Bob’ Burgers”)
drawing in the ToonBoom Storyboard Pro 4.1 program, which is vector based. Line remain “live”; I
can click on a line and resize it or distort it, or simply delete it. I don’t know if this is possible with Photoshop
(I’m pretty inexperienced in it), so I find using it somewhat frustrating.
Sketched lightly with pencil, “inked” with Tombo brush
pens, touched up slightly with white out pen. This is an example, to my mind of
simply crude, instead of pleasingly spontaneous and muscularly gestural.
Perhaps it’s the fault of the media; brush pens lack the flexibility and
subtlety of a sable brush dipped in ink. Or maybe it’s just… you can’t knock it
out of the park every time. Oh well.One problem is that the
guy’s hand is too small; It should be at least as large as the dick.
This one was drawn from life, using pencil and Tombo
brush pens. You can tell it’s from life because the model moved after I had
started drawing— notice the preliminary pencil sketch in the upper part of
the image, covered over somewhat by the purple-gray Tombo brush pen color.
I like this one; I like the gestural, abstract quality of the drawing and
the color shapes. I think it would look good painted large, on canvas, in
acrylic. This sketch was done in acrylic, using colors left over from whatever
I was working on at the time.
