Here’s today’s Christmas card idea.
Nib and ink with the lightbox and coloured on the computer.
Tag: lightbox
Penguin in a cloak
Update: You can now buy this cartoon on a t-shirt, hoodie, or sticker at RedBubble. How can you resist?
Here’s another drawing of a penguin in a cloak.
This one is interesting to me because of how I achieved it. First, I copied from a picture of a penguin I took at London zoo.
I sketched it in pencil and then sketched in the mask and cloak. Then I put it on the lightbox and drew the outline on a new sheet using a tria marker with the brush nib.
Then I scanned it and adjusted the levels to get the white paper white. I copied the layer and coloured it in, and put that coloured layer under the original scanned layer, using the Color Burn blending mode.
The nice thing for me is that I like this sort of look and I’m gradually working out how to achieve it. Gradually.
Rudolf takes a cold cure
Here’s another Christmas card idea.
What do you reckon?
Nibs (three of ’em!) and ink on Bristol board with the aid of a lightbox.
Update: I got some feedback that this was hard to understand, partly because of my appalling handwriting, partly because without colour it’s not immediately apparent that Rudolf doesn’t have a red nose, and partly because Rudolf guiding the sleigh is more a US thing than a UK thing. I’ve tried to address these a bit here (but the cultural differences are probably insurmountable).
Leaving card for Abi and Simon
My friends Abi and Simon are off to Japan for a year. I know them from taekwondo, so speculated they might try a Japanese martial art.
Nib and ink on Bristol Board, with the aid of the lightbox.
Penguins prefer fish
And here’s a bonus entry for today with more penguins!
Sarah said penguins aren’t expressive. I beg to differ.
This one was sketched very roughly in bits, then I used the light box (:-)) to ink it, scanned it and coloured in the grey on the computer.
Penguin in a cape
Here’s today’s cartoon.
I bought a lightbox to see if it would help me get around some frustrations I’ve been having recently. I’ve only used it this morning, but my first impressions are that it was well worth it.
For this cartoon I drew it in pencil on marker paper (because it’s thin) and then went over it in pen when I was happy with it. Then I put it on the lightbox with a bit of bristol board on top and inked it out. Then I used the bristol board inked picture as the base image and put another piece of paper on top to do the colouring in wash. It was far faster than erasing and quite easy, although it’s still not very easy to see through because the bristol board is quite thick. For the colouring, next time I think I’ll print out a scanned version – this should make it easier to see and reduce the stress of thinking my wash might go through the top layer to the inked layer. Fun!