I am slack on my blog posts, but rest assured I am pumping out the art to kick off 2013! These are about 1/3 of the drawings for Scary School book 3 by Derek Taylor Kent. Due to hit the shelf this summer, so I better keep the ball point pen moving!
Hey Scott do you always use ball pen? It is a favourite of mine, so just curious as to your methods, do you pencil first? Often I come up with something good and then struggle with how to transfer it, or bring it into a more completed piece.. and have several tomes of ball pen on smooth recycled paper, thats the best!! Anyway. .
Hey Curt! I don't always use ballpoint, but do love it. These are done with Parker ballpoints, which I understand survive better than most drug-store ball points. I understand your plight about transfering the drawing. Here is what I do. I do a dirty thumbnail, I scan it into the computer, I clean-up the thumbnail in p-shop THEN I lighten it almost till you can't see the drawing any more and print that badboy on strathmore 500 bristol (I tint it to the cyan.) Then I do my final ballpoint on top of that. I will try to do a post about it today.
Great.. thanks Scott. Appreciate that, helps to still be working on your original piece as it were printed out very lightly.. I am not too clued up on different surfaces, and how I would print on anything as firm as a 'board' I am yet to figure out.. do you have your own printer? I went to my local printing place to inquire about printing on 240gsm watercolour paper and they needed me to bring them a sample of it to see, which I havent yet done. . I must try to source a good stationary outlet, but you know, not sure there is anything like that around, so possibly online would be my best bet.. Thanks again and keep it rolling. Enjoying it!
Hey Scott do you always use ball pen? It is a favourite of mine, so just curious as to your methods, do you pencil first? Often I come up with something good and then struggle with how to transfer it, or bring it into a more completed piece.. and have several tomes of ball pen on smooth recycled paper, thats the best!!
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Hey Curt! I don't always use ballpoint, but do love it. These are done with Parker ballpoints, which I understand survive better than most drug-store ball points. I understand your plight about transfering the drawing. Here is what I do. I do a dirty thumbnail, I scan it into the computer, I clean-up the thumbnail in p-shop THEN I lighten it almost till you can't see the drawing any more and print that badboy on strathmore 500 bristol (I tint it to the cyan.) Then I do my final ballpoint on top of that. I will try to do a post about it today.
DeleteGreat.. thanks Scott. Appreciate that, helps to still be working on your original piece as it were printed out very lightly.. I am not too clued up on different surfaces, and how I would print on anything as firm as a 'board' I am yet to figure out.. do you have your own printer? I went to my local printing place to inquire about printing on 240gsm watercolour paper and they needed me to bring them a sample of it to see, which I havent yet done. . I must try to source a good stationary outlet, but you know, not sure there is anything like that around, so possibly online would be my best bet.. Thanks again and keep it rolling. Enjoying it!
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