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Description
WIPs for an officially licensed Star Wars sketch card (2.5" x 3.5") created for Topps' Masterwork 2018 trading card set.
Copic marker and ink
Copic marker and ink
Image size
2048x2048px 1.21 MB
Date Taken
May 21, 2018, 5:44:55 PM
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Hi BikerScout! I've watched you for a while now and been admiring your art for years. You're an absolute master at what you do and your work is breathtaking.
I've just recently gotten into traditional media, mostly been a digital artist since 2007. Been trying to do Inktober but life enjoys throwing obstacles in my way. However, what I've managed to produce has mostly been with the Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens, which I bought because I cannot get Copics where I am. Now, with some small amount of ingenuity I've managed to figure out how to use them to almost match what you can do with Copics, in a really roundabout way. But I've only been using them seriously since the start of Oc(Ink)tober. What I really do is paint with the ink itself. Which ends up looking rather a lot like your lovely rendering of the Emperor here. (Is he by any chance shouting 'Unlimited Power!'?)
So... since I'm mostly figuring things out as I go, may I ask what paper you would recommend? I've been using 300g/m watercolour paper because the way I'm working is essentially very similar to watercolour. I have asked for Bristol, having never used it, and can't seem to find it. I actually have a good collection of Faber-Castell supplies as it's all I can reliably find here. So I have PITT brush pens, Polychromos and Albrecht-Durer pencils, and some misc gouache, watercolour and Promarkers. I also made a brush pen for myself by filling a waterbrush with India ink. Your videos on Youtube and your art have already given me ideas about how to use them all together.
Anyway, TLDR, do you have any advice for working with ink in washes and on what paper would be best?
Thanks for your time!
I've just recently gotten into traditional media, mostly been a digital artist since 2007. Been trying to do Inktober but life enjoys throwing obstacles in my way. However, what I've managed to produce has mostly been with the Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens, which I bought because I cannot get Copics where I am. Now, with some small amount of ingenuity I've managed to figure out how to use them to almost match what you can do with Copics, in a really roundabout way. But I've only been using them seriously since the start of Oc(Ink)tober. What I really do is paint with the ink itself. Which ends up looking rather a lot like your lovely rendering of the Emperor here. (Is he by any chance shouting 'Unlimited Power!'?)
So... since I'm mostly figuring things out as I go, may I ask what paper you would recommend? I've been using 300g/m watercolour paper because the way I'm working is essentially very similar to watercolour. I have asked for Bristol, having never used it, and can't seem to find it. I actually have a good collection of Faber-Castell supplies as it's all I can reliably find here. So I have PITT brush pens, Polychromos and Albrecht-Durer pencils, and some misc gouache, watercolour and Promarkers. I also made a brush pen for myself by filling a waterbrush with India ink. Your videos on Youtube and your art have already given me ideas about how to use them all together.
Anyway, TLDR, do you have any advice for working with ink in washes and on what paper would be best?
Thanks for your time!