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This picture I did a horrible job with, I'm only keeping it as a reminder of some lessons I learned. It really does feel like a trial to see how much I can get wrong when I think back about how it ended up like this...

I started with this drawing I had done digitally some time ago. If I had any marks for shading they weren't available as I wanted to ink and color it using traditional means. I printed it and started thinking through light and shadow and putting down some pencil marks to work from.

Because I don't have very good pressure control I decided to ink this entirely with a brush pen, as it would force me to be more aware of how hard I'm pushing. So far so good, this might be a bizarre workflow but at least there's some sort of logic behind this bumbling.

The inking was a little rough and uneven, but I was slowly getting used to changing pressure as I worked. However the pencil marks needed to go. First lesson: the ink in pigma microns takes longer to dry than it does to cap the pen and grab an eraser. The pencil marks vanished but in their place I had all manner of ink streaks from erasing.

So the inks looked bad, I could still use it to practice marker coloring with after all It would be hard to make things worse right? Second lesson: Even after spreading pigma ink around with an eraser it still needs to dry, this will take longer then uncapping a marker. More ink streaks appeared and I had to spend a while cleaning the tips of some of my markers.

When I'm mixing marker colors I try to do it when they are wet as I think it lets the colors blend together better. To do this I leave the markers I'll be using uncapped and quickly switch them to apply layers on parts of the drawing. Third lesson: Double check the colors you'll be blending with, either by reading the name or testing it on scrap paper, your blended colors won't be what you want when you go by the inaccurate colors on the label and essentially mix random colors together. His skin doesn't look awful in this scanned version, but in person he looks very unnatural.

Much like that shark picture I think I learned some stuff with this, even though I butchered it along the way. I will have to print out another copy and try this again.

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This picture I did a horrible job with, I'm only keeping it as a reminder of some lessons I learned. It really does feel like a trial to see how much I can get wrong when I think back about how it ended up like this...

I started with this drawing I had done digitally some time ago. If I had any marks for shading they weren't available as I wanted to ink and color it using traditional means. I printed it and started thinking through light and shadow and putting down some pencil marks to work from.

Because I don't have very good pressure control I decided to ink this entirely with a brush pen, as it would force me to be more aware of how hard I'm pushing. So far so good, this might be a bizarre workflow but at least there's some sort of logic behind this bumbling.

The inking was a little rough and uneven, but I was slowly getting used to changing pressure as I worked. However the pencil marks needed to go. First lesson: the ink in pigma microns takes longer to dry than it does to cap the pen and grab an eraser. The pencil marks vanished but in their place I had all manner of ink streaks from erasing.

So the inks looked bad, I could still use it to practice marker coloring with after all It would be hard to make things worse right? Second lesson: Even after spreading pigma ink around with an eraser it still needs to dry, this will take longer then uncapping a marker. More ink streaks appeared and I had to spend a while cleaning the tips of some of my markers.

When I'm mixing marker colors I try to do it when they are wet as I think it lets the colors blend together better. To do this I leave the markers I'll be using uncapped and quickly switch them to apply layers on parts of the drawing. Third lesson: Double check the colors you'll be blending with, either by reading the name or testing it on scrap paper, your blended colors won't be what you want when you go by the inaccurate colors on the label and essentially mix random colors together. His skin doesn't look awful in this scanned version, but in person he looks very unnatural.

Much like that shark picture I think I learned some stuff with this, even though I butchered it along the way. I will have to print out another copy and try this again.