There she goes, my beautiful world
Jumping ahead several layers, now there’s more tone and the appearance of contour. The nib of the pen still needs more contrast to make it look shiny. By now, I’ve stopped using the 0.13mm pen exclusively and have begun making some layers with the 0.18mm pen.
There are two issues with continuing to use the finer pen. First is the fact that the more ink goes down on the page, the less blank space … Read the rest
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/06hastings.html?_r=1&em
A surprising and cogent argument. I’m not sure I agree that raising taxes is the right idea (closing loopholes would be a better start), but he has struck an underlying truth about the attitudes about wealth that our society would be better off without. Thought-provoking in any case.… Read the rest
These are now pasted into my sketchbook, but are not actually sketchbook work, but drafts. I’ve mentioned this before, but often what I do when I’m not certain how to proceed with a drawing is to place vellum over the pencil drawing and take different approaches at rendering the section in ink. Sometimes these come out as almost fully-realized drawings and other times I’ll work only on one the area of the drawing. Sometimes I’ll rough out some ideas crudely … Read the rest
Here you can see that after additional layers the hatching begins to take on a smoother appearance. I’m deepening up some areas to give shape, but it’s a process that will have to develop over time. The blown-out highlight areas still look like painted-on stripes and there’s little reflective detail, but you can see where it’s going. The main surface of the nib still has only two layers of hatching.… Read the rest
Here’s a pen from my sketchbook, drawn at least partially with a brush. It’s a lousy photo, but basically I’m still at work as midnight approaches. I made a commitment to post a drawing every day, so at 11:59pm a digital photo of an old pen from my sketchbook will have to do!… Read the rest
Especially because of all the work I’ve been doing in Drupal, I’ve switched most of my development efforts away from Perl solutions and started working mostly with PHP. The «Perl versus PHP» flamewars on the Internet are all over the place and usually full of nonsense. I really don’t want to add to that. In fact, I’m pretty pleased with PHP. The language has come a long way since it’s days as PHP/FI. I’ve come to appreciate its variable scoping … Read the rest
This is how I got started with the series of pen and ink drawings of pens and ink bottles. I’m not even sure what it was at first that intrigued me, but it’s not that difficult to figure out. I love my pens and these were good exercises in texture and reflection with a variety of surfaces. There were challenges with these drawings, but they are sketchbook pieces, so I didn’t want to take them too seriously.
My sketchbook is … Read the rest
This is the first in a series of posts which will show the progression of a pen and ink drawing on my drawing table. I intend to upload a scan each day, although I will likely skip days on this piece while I show other work being done. This scan in particular was made about two weeks ago. For some days I have multiple scans to show steps of the process, so this will not be seen in real time, … Read the rest
This Illustrator file was too big and complex to be rendered into a high-resolution raster by either Illustrator or Photoshop. Here GIMP’s Ghostscript interpreter was brought in for the job, which it did handily in less than an hour. Illustrator flat-out refused to export the 500,000-endpoint vector file at the resolution I needed, and Photoshop kept one of my eight processor cores working at 100% for more than two days before I gave up and gave … Read the rest