drawing and nattering

[rivendellrose]

Stuck in my writing again, but for once the drawing end of things is going well for more than a day at a stretch... so that's good! What's bad is that it means that I a) spent $27 on new pens last night, because I realized I was short on shades and hues of blue and I needed them for my current project, and b) stayed up late last night completely ignoring the episodes of Coupling that maymargaret and I were theoretically watching while I beat my brains over how to BLEND DAMN IT with these stupid pens, because even with a fistful of new pens I apparently don't have enough gradations of color, despite now owning most of the "blue" spectrum sold by the brand I use. Alas.

The project is going well, though. I am embarrassingly obsessed over it, given that it's nothing but a character sketch of Abe from Hellboy, and that I already realized that I managed to give the poor bastard a slightly hump-back all the way back in the line-drawing stage, and now am not able to fix it. Might be able to tweak it in Photoshop later, though... hmm.... I'm also getting the vague notion I should have saved a line-art-only version, so that I could try doing all the coloring in PS, and see how it compared with my pen work (and also because I like looking at different stages of my work, so that I can improve on it later if possible), but... alas. Too late to go back now. I hope to have it decently finished (ie, enough for me to post pictures) tomorrow. And I wish there were more/better pictures out there. Whine, whine, whine... ;)

I did find this while I was hunting for more drawing references. "Abe" and Neil Gaiman. Like both of them weren't cute enough on their own...

As miss_arel said after the movie, this film is no help for those of us who are cursed with a bit of a xeno-kink. Ahem.

I swear, there are things in my head other than this stupid drawing... but I'm not sure what they are.

Listening to "The Golden Bird" by Elizabeth Peters at work, and quite enjoying it. Good book. I really do like mystery novels, just so long as they happen to focus on one of my obsessions... and archaeological mysteries definitely qualify!

Also, there was Random Greek Food in the break room today, so I am full of gyros and baklava. Yay. ♥

Comments

[caeline.livejournal.com]

What brand do you use? sometimes the paper is more relevant to blending than the actual pens are. You need paper that won't absorb the colours too fast. I don't use markers, but Briggs Riley makes some cheap paper. :)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I use Prismacolor pens, and.... yeah, I've noticed the paper thing, but I keep forgetting do actually *do* something about it. I have a pad of good, thick paper that's actually intended for pens, but I always end up drawing something on my regular sketch pad and then going "oh, hey, I should color that"... and just doing it on that paper, which absorbs the colors really fast.

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Hey sweety, any news from the Doctor about the heart monitor or ultrasound results yet?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I already told you all I'm going to get from the ultrasound. I'll email you later about the rest.