Another page in the life of...

Hmm...It's been a while, hasn't it? Perhaps I should set a specific day to update on. Maybe that would get me updating more consistently...

Have a page out of my sketchbook. Done with pencil and grey markers (which I've found has a really nice effect on brown paper)

She's a little long (face, legs, torso...everything really), but I really like the effect of the marker. *Ahem* I think the effect of the marker on the brown paper works well.

Process Contiued

Two posts in three days? Unheard of!

Anyway! Today was a beautiful day of 8 inches of snow and no class, so you all get another post.

So! The second step! Inking the bottle. This is fundamentally different from the watch because it relies much more on the form of the bottle and on the lighting than on specific things on the bottle itself. Inking the glass bottle is something that's a little bit more fluid and allows for more flexibility because other that the outline, it's all up to me to decide how my bottle is going to look as a (fake) 3D object.

The first image is the base outline that I did prior to taking photos. You can see my pencil sketch underneath the ink where I'm giving myself an idea of where I want to draw my lines to define the form. The sketch is rather loose.

In the second image I've followed my sketch and placed outlines in the basic spots to show the thickness of the glass, as well as the base of the bottle.

The third image you can see where I've added lines to form the top of the bottle, to show it stepping up to the neck. I've also thicked the outlines to show which side of the bottle is in shadow as well as to give more dimension to the glass. Having lines all one thickness on an image makes for a very boring image.

In the fourth image I've thickened a few lines a bit more to show form, but I've also added some hatching to indicate form and shadows.

The last image is the finished product, everything hatched, shaded, and inked.

Process

That ink project from my last post is still continuing, and I think I'll keep posting as it goes along. I'm actually having a lot of fun with this project, I've a newfound love for ink and watercolor. Except my ink isn't waterproof, sadly. But that's workable.

I also, for some random reason, decided to take pictures while I was working on one of the drawings. So these pictures to the left are an example of how I ink. The preliminary pencil sketches are already laid down, and I've already got certain things outlined at the beginning, so the inking process I'm showing you is for the clock face and the inside of the glass bottle.

The first image shows the drawing with most things outlined, as well as my tools: a plasic film canister for water (these things come in awfully handy for so many things because they're airtight. I use them for paint storage, water, safety pin storage, and all kinds of things. Save 'em if you got 'em), a bottle Pelikan black ink, a scrap of fabric I use to wipe my pen nib on to dry it after cleaning it, and my trusty pen (The nib is a Hunt Globe bowl pointed nib, or so it says). The second image is a close up of the face of the pocket watch. I already have the main parts outlined, so what's left is the detail.

In the third image I've started inking the details. First I went in and inked the arrows which point to the hours/numerals. This way, even if I get off my pencil sketch, I still have a point of reference. You can also see how I go about inking, first outlining, and then filling in.

The 4th image is mainly just progress, but also shows that I turn my paper while I ink, keeping my hand out of the wet ink as well as allowing me to drag the pen properly to get different thicknesses of line.

The 5th image is just more progress, getting further along and finishing up the numerals.

The 6th and last image for today is the final pocket watch. I've finished the numerals, put in the tic-marks for the minutes, and added shadows along the edges of the watch to show the dimesions of it. Another way I did that, was to thicken the lines, you can see this along the bottom of the watch, where the base is thicker to mimic the shadow you'd see at the bottom of an object.

Next post: inking the bottle and the final product.