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Steven Queen
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Posted: 15 June 2023 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I sketched something simple to practice inking with a dip pen and mapping nib


Someday I'll work up the courage to butcher some of Mr. Byrne's fine pencils with it.  I apologize in advance. :)



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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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Nice inking. It has an old "traditional" flavor from those
newspapers back in the early 1900's...
Would be really interested in looking what it would look
like on JB's pencils...
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Posted: 19 June 2023 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Thank you Didier.  That's exactly the look I'm targeting. Something between the early 20th century faux wood-cut look and what folks like Gary Gianni are also doing in ink today.

The key (I think...still learning!) is focusing on contour inking half-tones and partial shadow in B&W without the advantage or regularity of zip-tone or the like.

My fear with tackling JB's work is that it would distort it in a fundamental way as I inevitably would be putting much more ink down to accentuate the lighting, and I'm not sure it would resonate with the super-clean lines he's laid down.  Odds are, he (and his fans) would not appreciate the heavy-handedness of it all.  He's much, much closer to Neil Adams and the polished photorealism style of the 1960's (which I cannot pull off) than this olde-time, Prince Valiant stuff.  It would likely clash.

Dare I say (without offending) that your excellent style and where I am trying to land have more in common?


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Thank you for the kind words, Steven. I think it could
bring something interesting. Maybe you could try
something along the line of the Romitas' portrait Joe
Rubinstein posted recently on Facebook... Maybe it could
be a simplification for the faces that could help you
keep some of JB's style...

As for my illustration, well, yeah, I kinda agree with
you. I try to see if I can draw more realistic than what
I usually do, as I come from a more "Big nose French
Belgian " old school of comics.
I need to work on some characters...
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It sounds like we are in a similar boat.

Here's an attempt to ink a gal --- something I've cowardly avoided for the most part



The original pencil sketch was on a rough mixed-media paper that I bought on sale and am really regretting.  I could not get the pencils to resolve beyond a smudgy/blurry mess so I thought I'd try the dip pen.  Even then, it then took a lot of digital surgery to fix many features, especially the face.  I don't really much like the result (very amateur looking...I shouldn't post it, burning would be better), but in my defense I'm a babe-in-the-woods when it comes to ink and I've done a whole lot worse in the past.  So...progress?

My "Kirby Krackle" looks like "coco puffs" or some kind of moth infestation. Oy!  Who knew it was so hard to pull off?

I now need to research "Big Nose French Belgian" comics! You aren't talking Moebius, are you? :)


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Some sketches I drew recently, to practice drawing women.

It turns out that spending your teen years exclusively drawing male superheroes can breed bad habits in drawing-- like not being able to draw women properly. Who knew!



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Out of frustration over that last piece, I regressed to smudgey-pencil photo-copying.  Now I must do penance in ink.




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Another attempt --- still off.  Some artist, when asked what the hardest things to draw replied: "The other eye."

Truth.




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True dat! I have a strong tendency to draw one eye bigger than the other.
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Agree. Or drawing the other eye in perspective. One of
these days, I'll get it right.
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