Been having a play with the video camera today and, as I’ve been asked often about my inking process I thought I’d put one or two inking demos together. This birdie was was doodled for that purpose, I’ll be putting the video up on youtube in a day or two, but here’s how he looked when I’d finished, I definately tipped my hat in Arthur Rackham’s direction for this (and make absolutely no apologies for it)… Happy weekend everyone!
A newish image from my files, I’m really enjoying the monochrome stuff just lately and sepia is the new black. Lots of fun…..
I usually use a few different sized drawing pens to ink my work and aim at getting a ‘brush’ or ‘mapping nib’ look about it. Recently though, I’ve begun to play with mapping nibs and brushes to save time and save having to use three different sized tips (mostly a .005, .1 and .3 sized tip). I’ve also been playing with sepia ink, it gives a more organic look and feel to the organic nature of my drawings… I inked this one last night, very much in the Victorian book illustration vein (in case nobody’s noticed, Mr. Rackham is my hero…)….
Another drawing of the very beautiful Grace, who has much of the Pre Raphaelite ideal about her (Waterhouse would have loved her), I’ve made a couple of drawings based on her photos and would love to work on a full painting in the near future. More images of Grace can be found here:
http://sidhe-etain.deviantart.com
Used my ‘warming up’ time this morning to add some inks to yesterdays doodle, tipping my hat to the illustrators of the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ here, so much to be learned from the past, my heroes include, Arthur Rackham, William Heath Robinson, Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogany, and of course, modern masters such as Charles Vess, Alan lee, David Wyatt, all superb illustrators and masters of the inked line …
