1. I experimented with ink and fine liners because fine liners has always been a strength for me, so I figured throw in both something I'm strong at and something I haven't really ever tried before. Here's the result. You can definitely tell which is my strength and which I am new at, however I think it works well. A lot of artists have always combined ink and pen work because the ink typically makes the pen work 'pop', which this definitely did. The only annoying part, is that you have to concentrate so hard on keeping everything neat because it is very easy for the ink to run into the pen work consequently ruining the piece you have done. None the less, I think it worked quite well and it looks really aesthetically pleasing and should definitely be something I try on a much larger scale.
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| My little veggies. This is technique that Dave suggested; I'd never really thought of the technique as something you can experiment with, but here it is. A lot of water on paper, which then you add ink to very quickly and the differences you can do with colours is really fun because they run into each other and make their own colours and/or run into each other and dry flat and with a line of colour. It's a technique you can really get a finished piece from without using it specifically. My veggies worked well with the technique. |
More experimental work with ink/watercolour. Watercolour is interesting because you can work into it with any colour and it blends really nicely. The spider guy I created on the left worked well; I love how the paints sit on the water colour paper and the way the dried so flat. This somewhat creates the feel of what a neo-traditional tattoo does because of the faded yet flat, colour effect. On the right is a bunch of automatic, very quick doodles with water colour and ink.
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| Heres a little automatic water colour painting I have done. The leaves are my favourite to do with watercolour because the paint can be made lighter or darker and when added onto a dry painting, it dried a lot darker and sits well and creates a darker effect to make the painting less 'flat'. This experiment was to see how well watercolour sits and builds, which definitely worked out in my favour. |
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| Graphic makers are interesting when you've been working with paint, because they work as if you're smudging with water on the shiny side of the sheet. This is the result when working from a reference photo of my tortoise, flower and a pair of antlers. The colours work super well and add shape and form - consequently leave the over-all image looking bright but having shadow. The only thing I dislike greatly, is how working with graphic markers is soo easy to smudge - because you forget that you're working with something that smudges so easily because when it's paint you are aware due to the wet brush. |
Finally, this is a very quick automatic sketch using graphic markers before realising that I really just don't want to use them. The little man worked interestingly because I wondered how the bright markers would work with th darker markers. It works, but it is quite unsightly and just isn't my thing. The other doodles really just didn't work very well, leaving me with a negative feeling when using graphic markers.
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