Using ink to create sketches was a bit of a daunting trial as I hadn’t used this kind of medium before for sketching purposes. I did some minor experiments beforehand to get the gist of how the ink handles and how much I would need to water it down to get certain tones and such. It was also a bit of a trial keeping a steady hand with the paint brush. As much as I aimed for this to be free and gestural, naturally I couldn’t be too free or else I could layer too much ink on or splash ink on places I didn’t want to.
With the sketches, I mainly gave
the main body forms an outline with thicker, darker ink and then went over the
shadows with a wash of lighter ink, layering it at times to get additional
darker tones. I used a thin paint brush for the majority of the work as that
would give mw better control. I feel as though I could’ve added more variation
to my line weight with the ink to create some more interesting shape design. In
future that’d be something I’d look to improve on.
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