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Anthony - fabulous Alien!
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Thanks alot Matthew i want to do another one soon. I want to plan the design out a little better when i do it i'm gonna pencil it first unlike this one. I really want to pay homage and respect to H.R. Giger
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My personal perfernce would be for a artist who uses brush and quill and feathers J.B.'s work
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IMO JB's inks on himself are -not- feathered in any way, or at least in the tradition of a brush.  He uses sharpies to ink with.  Although you -can- feather a bit with a sharpie, IMO his inks do not reflect that.
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i'm gonna pencil it first unlike this one
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YOU DIDN'T PENCIL THAT FIRST?  I had to re-read what you wrote above.  Wow dude.  That's all i can say when something like that just falls out of your pen.
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I thought he used a japanees brush pen.
When i was working at DC Comics Paul Kuberberg informed
me of his tools .
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yeah all i did was jusr drew a stick figure just to get the postion everything was penned as i went along. I 'm a huge horror fan movie and comics so i must have seen Alien hundreds of times it's all burned into my minds's eye :)
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http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5493& amp;KW=inking+sharpies

I had asked him awhile ago about what he uses.  Here's the jist of it:

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JB: Over the span of my career I have used many different tools, to achieve many different effects. When I first started with Charlton, I was using f fine point felt tip pens, not unlike the Sharpie pens I have been playing with recently -- tho with a blue base to the ink, which sometimes presented problems. I have also inked a lot with brush -- Windsor Newton Series 7, No 1 or 2. Much of my early inks on FANTASTIC FOUR were done with a Rapidograph pen, a tool to which I have also been known to return from time to time.

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I've read that most inkers don't like markers and have read where they have instructed people to not use them - the reason being that 1. Marker will fade over time

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JB: That depends on the marker used. Sharpies , for instance, are "permanent", meaning if one treats a piece drawn with a Sharpie with the proper respect -- not hanging it in direct sunlight, for instance -- it will last. I have a Neal Adams page from BRAVE AND BOLD that was drawn about 35 years ago, much of it with marker, and not a single line of it has faded or even reddened.

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2. That you can't get the same dynamic line you can get with a brush.

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JB: That depends on the artist. It is true that markers -- especially fine point, which are best for the kind of inking we're discussing here -- don't have much "give" and cannot be depended upon to produce line weight variation "automatically", as a brush does, but in my own case I tend to sweep back and forth across the same line several times, when penciling or inking with markers, and this puts in the necessary variation -- with, I might add, a degree of control not possible with a brush.

As always, it comes down to "your mileage may vary", but I think it is profoundly foolish for any professional to condemn the use of any tool based on his/her own experiences with that tool. The best advice is always "Find what works for you."

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I did read that Joe Rubenstein (?) sometimes uses a real
japanees caligraphy brush
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Well now i know. thanks buddy.
But now i see why his stuf looks muddy, its inked with a
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Edited by Anthony castrillo on 19 July 2005 at 9:37pm
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But now i see why his stuf looks muddy, its inked with a marker!!!
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On some pictures I would agree completely.

Your layout is looking magnificent!  I love to look at your step by step progression.  It helps me learn a lot!  Especially with body composition.

And be careful of that bow string...   :)
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Under the arm, right?
I was watching the OUTDOOR MAN Championships this past
weenend and dug those bows.
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Under the arm, right?
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Yes, especially in the pose you have above.  good 3 finger grip!
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