Mh. I'm glad you like the picture! However, it's not something I'd ever give to print, for several reasons, some subjective, and some of them objective. I'll try to explain my thoughts a bit...
Objective problems of the technique: - The white lines don't work! They're smeary, blotty, and, worst of all, sometimes broke off and I had to start anew. I guess this was a problem of the white pen I used, which usually works fine but apparently didn't like this particular paper. It's visible especially on the grass when lines suddenly terminate more or less randomly. That's not supposed to happen! - Not visible in the picture, but the black ink lines took forever to dry. I had to stop working several times so I wouldn't smear the whole picture. Very annoying for something that's supposed to be a sketching technique. - Also not visible: the nib made horrible scratchy sounds while drawing. *shudders* (- Very visible but not the fault of the technique itself: my pen strokes are horrible due to lack of practice. LOL)
Subjective: - I'm still intensely uncomfortable with anything that isn't the "clear", detailed, tidy style of my watercolor paintings. I usually think in terms of color areas, not lines, so line work is clearly not my strong suit. - Ironically, I like the broad strokes better on the smaller format than at this scale, for the same reason: it's more suited to my style of thinking if the "lines" are so broad compared to the overall image size that they turn back into "areas". This might mean that detailed drawings are impossible, just areas of light and dark, but the resulting sketches will actually be more useful to me if I one day decide to make a "real" artwork from them.
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Date: 2018-10-03 05:55 pm (UTC)Objective problems of the technique:
- The white lines don't work! They're smeary, blotty, and, worst of all, sometimes broke off and I had to start anew. I guess this was a problem of the white pen I used, which usually works fine but apparently didn't like this particular paper. It's visible especially on the grass when lines suddenly terminate more or less randomly. That's not supposed to happen!
- Not visible in the picture, but the black ink lines took forever to dry. I had to stop working several times so I wouldn't smear the whole picture. Very annoying for something that's supposed to be a sketching technique.
- Also not visible: the nib made horrible scratchy sounds while drawing. *shudders*
(- Very visible but not the fault of the technique itself: my pen strokes are horrible due to lack of practice. LOL)
Subjective:
- I'm still intensely uncomfortable with anything that isn't the "clear", detailed, tidy style of my watercolor paintings. I usually think in terms of color areas, not lines, so line work is clearly not my strong suit.
- Ironically, I like the broad strokes better on the smaller format than at this scale, for the same reason: it's more suited to my style of thinking if the "lines" are so broad compared to the overall image size that they turn back into "areas". This might mean that detailed drawings are impossible, just areas of light and dark, but the resulting sketches will actually be more useful to me if I one day decide to make a "real" artwork from them.