#rapidograph work

[haeusermann]

#art #drawing #original art #mixed media #zeichnung #artists on tumblr #ink #work in progress #rotring #rapidograph

[crognak]

sketching at work. #riseandgrind #dailydraw #dailypractice #dailydrawingchallenge #dailydrawings #dailysketch #dailydrawing #work #rapidograph #rapidographdrawing #instaart #dog #dogart #dogartwork #bat #batart #religiousart #catholicart #iconography #romanart #artifacts #hourglass #norest #sketchbook #sketchbookart #vase #bee #savethebees #beeart #rose (at Hendersonville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co43_NULrjE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#riseandgrind #dailydraw #dailypractice #dailydrawingchallenge #dailydrawings #dailysketch #dailydrawing #work #rapidograph #rapidographdrawing #instaart #dog #dogart #dogartwork #bat #batart #religiousart #catholicart #iconography #romanart #artifacts #hourglass #norest #sketchbook #sketchbookart #vase #bee #savethebees #beeart #rose

[anticmiscellaney]

as an aspiring comic artist looking to move from graphite and oil painting to more ink/inkwash/watercolor like you- could you explain your process a bit? any tips for beginners? i love your art and you're at the top of my inspiration list right now :,)

Thank you! I've been using ink and watercolour for a long time, and ink/inkwash is definitely my favourite medium. A key tip for getting started would be to know the different kinds of ink available because they all work differently. The three main ones are:

Dye-based ink - these have their uses, but they are not lightfast at all (fade quickly) and they act kinda weird. The colours are very vibrant, but they tend to dry very fast, not be waterproof (tricky for layering), and stain the paper. I use very few dye-based inks. Some ink brands look like they have a big colour range, but when you look at the boxes half of them say "dye based" - don't buy Higgins those.

Acrylic ink - think of this as very liquid acrylic paint. There are a lot of fancy options, many specialty kinds (metallics, pearls, neons), but they aren't going to give you the transparent inkwash look. It's good for drawing opaque lines over colour, and you can dilute it with water for a wash, but it gets chalky. Waterproof may vary (test it first), and it usually has a matte finish. White acrylic ink is well worth having as you can detail over solid black or tint it with coloured pigmented inks, and god knows I love using neons, but I treat acrylic ink like "effects" ink. It’s not my main drawing ink. Daler Rowney is good and widely available (pigment-based is not the same as pigmented ink, this is still acrylic ink), they have a few lines at different prices. Liquitex is decent.

Pigmented/India ink - this is my favourite kind of ink and probably what you want! Pigmented ink dilutes well (it’s a transparent medium like watercolour) and often has a glossier finish depending on shellac content, and it will say on the bottle if it’s waterproof (test that first). It’s good for brush or nib, good for layering, works nicely with watercolour and other types of ink, can be mixed to make new colours/tints...she’s got it all. If you’re in Australia, Art Spectrum is great, I stock up every time I’m back there. If you’re elsewhere, I recommend Speedball for black ink (Blick Black Cat in the US is good). Dr Martins Bombay India Ink has great colours and they’re usually affordable.

There are many brands and everyone has their preferences, and over time you will find your own. I have a mix of different types and brands, though probably fewer than you’d think. Get a small bottle in one or two colours and play around, see if you like it before investing in a set. Don’t buy fountain pen ink or Rapidograph ink for nib/brush, those are best suited to being used in specific types of pens.

The nibs I use are Hunt #512s. #102s (called crow quills) are popular and I like them too, but they are very sharp and will rip up your paper, and can be a little too flexible and hard to control. The #512 is a good all-rounder with a smooth line capable of variation, and I think they’re a solid choice for a beginner. These nibs and holders are cheap and widely available. I don’t buy expensive watercolour brushes because ink will wreck them a lot faster than watercolour will. What you want to look for is the fibers holding a point - the brush should not have bedhead.

My only real advice to someone looking to try watercolours is to not buy the cheapest shittiest kind. You know from oil painting that all paints are not created equal and bad paint is going to frustrate you, especially when you’re starting out. I started with one of these twelve years ago and I still use it in conjunction with other sets I’ve built myself, I just refill the pans from (better quality) tubes when they get low. They last a long time. So do bottles of ink.

I’d like to do a process post, but I’m not sure what would be interesting or helpful to you, and I use ink/watercolour/gouache in a lot of different ways. If there’s a specific piece you liked the look of, I’m happy to demonstrate that method, or I can just go through my favourite approach.

As for comics...the best advice I can give you is pretty general.

Anatomy is a rewarding life-long study, but what really counts for narrative art, over technical accuracy, is GESTURE, EXPRESSION, and BODY LANGUAGE. Look at people. Look at how they move, look at their faces, look at their hands, listen to how they talk. In comics, you are the director and the actors.

Environments are a bonus character in your story and can add a lot of depth and atmosphere! Understanding perspective will make using them a lot easier.

Do not start with your graphic novel idea, start with a short story (under eight pages) and finish it. Finish it. Fucking finish it. Then do some more, getting longer over time. The best idea you never do is worth less to your progress than the worst finished piece.

There aren’t a lot of books that dig into the nuts and bolts of sequential storytelling for artists in a way I like. Filmmaking books are handy, but they’re dealing in moving images and don’t have to worry about page design. There are some good “how to make comics” books (the two Will Esiner did are my favourites), but as a genre it can be very hit or miss. I always look at what the writer/artist has made to see if I want to listen to their instructions - if you hate their art and think the graphic novel they made sucks, don’t buy their how-to book.

Bob McLeod, one of my teachers, gave us all this list:

These rules aren’t inflexible, but they cover the big issues.

For actual storytelling advice, the best one I have read was Directing The Story by Francis Glebas. It’s aimed at storyboard artists, which I was, but it discusses visual storytelling and explains how to approach it and the reasoning behind choices in a way that is useful for anyone making sequential art.

#replied #process stuff

[collonelatom]

do you use a technical pen (e.g. isograph/rapidograph/etc)? asking because your line thickness/quality is very consistent

The pens I use are pretty standard, 0.1's by Edding, Sakura or Faber-Castell, nothing too fancy. Whatever works, works

[jpivblog]

i was so graciously bequeathed a set of fancy rapidograph technical pens from my friend but the most precious and desired Tiny Nib Size (.25) had some ancient goopy ink in it. and so, i engaged in the trials of the Technical Pen Cleaning Process. also i didn't have fancy syringe adapter to use to unblock the pen tip, so i poked a hole through a rubber band with a pushpin in order to make a watertight seal between the pen and my syringe in order to lightly force water through the tip... and guess what!

it worked! hurray! fancy pen restored!

#pivstuff #this is great because i recently found out all my tiny micron-esque pens are old and worn out 😒

[focsle]

Not sure if anyone asked you this, so if someone did I apologise, but how did you get the hang of inking?

This is going to maybe sound pat, but lots of practice. I’ve drawn hundreds of comic pages over the years and, if we break them down into panels, that’s thousands of individual drawings…which gives me a lot of opportunities to work on the skill, and I’m always still learning!

Going to Weather is digital, but it’s the first comic I’ve done where I wasn’t inking traditionally. Everything I’m doing in it now is translated from how I work with traditional inks. I’d recommend practicing with traditional ink because it gives you the opportunity to try out all kinds of different tools to find what sings to you: crow quill pens, microns, rapidographs, brushes, dip pens, etc. The Winsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky brush is a really nice one for inking, though quite pricey. And my absolutely favorite inking tool are Japanese G-pen nibs, particularly the Zebra brand. They’re really stable and have a great line variation for a nib. I’m ride or die for Zebra G Pens--super versatile tool. But everyone has their favorites.

Practice textures! My favorite professor had many-a-mantra, but one of them was ‘it looks like this, it feels like this’, thinking that as you’re rendering something, render it with intention. The bark on a tree is going to look different from a knight’s armor, or someone’s hair, or a wheat field. Think about how you could best convey what something feels like through your linework.

Also practice different kinds of shading. Try some straight linework with nothing but the line weight to imply light, some stippling, some hatching, some ink washes, some stark black and white chiaroscuro. Try experimenting with how you might render different colors, using just the black ink. It can help you find the ways you like rendering things, and help your brain process light and tone with something that’s just black and white. I learned a lot while having to render sunrises in greyscale for GTW, for instance.

And also look at the work of other artists! It’s helpful to see how others use the medium to do what I mentioned above. I’m most inspired by 19th century engravings, ranging from illustrations to just like…drawings of furniture in the Sears catalogues of Olde before photography did it all. And some artists I personally find very inspirational and masters of the kind of inking style that appeals to me are Bernie Wrightson, Charles Dana Gibson, Rockwell Kent, Henry Clarke, Aubrey Beardsley, and Edward Gorey.

Happy inking!

#asks #anonymous

[bonyfish]

9 18 26

i'm assuming these are for the weirdly specific artist ask meme (tho i am happy to accept questions from the other weirdly specific ask meme i reblogged!), so:

9: What are your file name conventions? Pretty descriptive, and I don't usually save a whole lot of versions of a given file, now that I have cloud backup with a 30-day file history. I have folders for each year, which is nice because I can use the simplest name for whatever I'm drawing without worrying if I already named something, like, catboys.clip a year ago.

18: An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken. This is a tough one because I mostly work digitally now, and also I am very bad at estimating things in general. Certainly I broke a ton of pencils and charcoal when I was in art school. If computers count as art supplies: I am on my fifth consecutive Surface Pro 5 because Things Kept Happening just barely within the warranty windows for each one and they're fiddly exotic creatures that are practically impossible to repair. I also got a rapidograph pen in college that I tragically did not clean properly and it gummed up beyond repair.

26: What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended? This is a really good question!! The first one that comes to mind is my original lumberjack pinup guy drawing, which some folks on tumblr at the time thought looked like a particular guy from a web series I'd never heard of. it got a lot more notes than any of my other art at the time, but I was quite uncomfortable with people thinking I'd drawn slightly suggestive pinup art of a real human stranger, so that was a fun emotional rollercoaster.

A slightly more fun one is the numerous people who got at least a chapter into my webcomic before realizing that the two lead characters were both women and gay for each other.

#replies #weirdly specific artist ask meme #bunclover

[virtualmemoriespodcast]

Episode 571 - Ed Subitzky

The great cartoonist and humorist Ed Subitzky gets his long-delayed due with the new collection, POOR HELPLESS COMICS! (New York Review Comics). We talk about Ed's amazing career at National Lampoon, how he developed his "can't draw' style after taking a cartooning class with RO Blechman & Charles Blackman A DOZEN TIMES, how the Rapidograph became his Excalibur, and why this collection includes some of his favorite prose pieces alongside all the comics. We get into how he began experimenting with the form & structure of comics, his lifelong curiosities for science and philosophy and how he wound up getting published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, his longtime career writing direct marketing pieces, and how it took preparing this book and looking back at his work for him to realize his comics were really funny. • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

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#podcast #books

[ashleybravin]

Salt shaker postcard. This one requires a bit of a backstory. When I first started working with my mentor before art school, he used tell me that whenever I hit a block or felt like I had run out of things to draw, that there is always something to draw, and that I should get out of my head and just reach for a salt shaker and draw it. He would insist that there are always salt shakers sitting around in restaurants and cafes, and that the practice of drawing the same common thing over and over again would make something new and spark new ideas. Salt shakers became the symbol of problem solving between he and I, both of us regularly saying “there’s always salt shakers” when things got tough. Ever since I moved away, and for years now, my mentor and I have been mailing each other drawings of salt shakers in our letters, and on our envelopes ever since. 🧂 accessibility: A photo of a watercolor postcard with a drawing of a salt shaker in grey marker and red pencil and black ink. A collection of markers and pencils are scattered about it, as is a salt shaker, and a deck of post cards. #StoryTime #KohINoor #Rapidograph #RapidographPen #PrismacolorPen #PrismacolorMarker #AlcoholMarker #Drawing #Art #ArtistsOfInstagram #ArtInsta #ArtGram #DailyArt #Fabriano @kohinoorusa @prismacolor @fabriano1264 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYViuQLbpA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#storytime #kohinoor #rapidograph #rapidographpen #prismacolorpen #prismacolormarker #alcoholmarker #drawing #art #artistsofinstagram #artinsta #artgram #dailyart #fabriano

[karen-chin]

finally not greeted by bursting ink… yeah… well… no more ink left, that works I guess

Drawn on 20220724

Photo – Rotring Rapidograph 0.1mm + Watercolor on Moleskine Watercolour Album Large Art Plus

#animals #cow #watercolor #drawing #daily

[doctor-garceau]

Former Weapon of Choice by Tina & Joe Via Flickr: Rapidograph pens. A guy in work was going to get rid of them. I couldn't stand to see them go in the trash. I used to use them for all of my illustrations. It must be at least ten years since I put ink in one. Willceau Site | Willceau Illo News

#technical #pen #ink #Koh-i-noor #flickr

[bogdansavchenko]

«Вечір лоскоче» 2023р "Evening Tickles" 2023

туш, пензель, перо, ... ink, brush, pen, …

Формат А3, A3 format

I will duplicate my thoughts in English if I have the opportunity.

Робота зроблена взимку. В думках у мене були спогади про літо, рибалку, річку. Як це часто буває у мене робота була намальована без підготовчого малюнку чи ескізу чи навіть задуму. Часто я вигадую собі якусь технічну задачу, а далі дістаю з підсвідомості сюжет який мене турбує в даний момент. Стосовно технічної задачі то я спробував новий пензлик та намагався оволодіти ним, але при цьому я використовував і інші інструменти наприклад перо і рапідограф. Коли ти імпровізуєш прям по ходу того як малюєш треба вирішувати багато естетичних та художніх задач і в ніякому разі не можна робити помилки в композиції. Для цього треба мати певний досвід та бажано виконувати певні вправи які допомагають с цим. Можливо я колись розкажу про це також. Із за такого пітходу часто робота перетворюється в експеремент результат якого не відоми аж не тільки коли робота стає закінчиною. але і часто коли проходить час і з'являються ще схожі роботи і є змога проаналізувати її в одному ряду подібних чи не дуже аналогів.

Щось я тут вже багато пишу. Є ще що сказати тож залишу на на наступну публікацію.

The work was made in winter. In my mind I had memories of summer, fishing, the river. As is often the case with me, the work was painted without a preparatory drawing or sketch or even a plan. Often I come up with a technical task, and then I pull out the subject that concerns me at the moment from my subconscious. As for the technical task, I tried a new brush and tried to master it, but I also used other tools, such as a pen and a rapidograph. When you improvise while you are painting, you have to solve many aesthetic and artistic problems and you can't make mistakes in the composition. To do this, you need to have some experience and preferably do some exercises that help you with this. Perhaps I will talk about this someday. Because of this approach, the work often turns into an experiment, the result of which is unknown not only when the work is finished, but often when time passes and similar works appear, and they can be analysed in the same row. similar or not so similar analogues.

I have written a lot here. I have more to say, so I will leave it for the next post.

#traditional painting #landscape #ink #art #graphics #illustration #no ai art

[artemiss-moonchild]

no but two of my rapidographs stopped working when they worked just fine this afternoon 😭😭

#and they had to be the two i'll need the most to finish my projects #now i have to struggle all night with the one needle size that i have still working #and i'll have to go to uni tomorrow to buy new ones #can i just cry myself to sleep and hope i just don't wake up in the morning

[octosette]

My boss recently asked me if I’d be interested in showing some of my work @jackshardwareandfarm. I’ll be rotating through pieces monthly and as they sell. DM for pricing! . #drawing #linedrawing #symmetrical #indiaink #rapidograph #radialsymmetry #symmetry #geometric #geometricart #hardwarestore #octosette (at Jack's Hardware and Farm Supply) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce9p0R7pKg9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#drawing #linedrawing #symmetrical #indiaink #rapidograph #radialsymmetry #symmetry #geometric #geometricart #hardwarestore #octosette

[raquellejac]

#wip ! This is from a comic I’m working on titled “Pillow Talk” to be printed in the upcoming issue of @bubbles_zine ! ••••• #itaintmebabe #bobdylan #theturtles #comics #comix #undergroundcomics #undergroundcomix #inkdrawing #autobiographicalart #autobiographicalcomics #raquellejac #raquellejacqueline #rapidograph #rapidographpen #zines #zine #workinprogress https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdn1vFsryFn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wip #itaintmebabe #bobdylan #theturtles #comics #comix #undergroundcomics #undergroundcomix #inkdrawing #autobiographicalart #autobiographicalcomics #raquellejac #raquellejacqueline #rapidograph #rapidographpen #zines #zine #workinprogress

[haeusermann]

#art #drawing #work in progress #ink #rapidograph