I posted on Facebook that this years Inktober had been the most beneficial to me artistically. I've spent the last two years jumping from digital platform to digital platform. Going back to pencil, ink and watercolors was such a huge help. I went back to my ipad and picked up the stylus and it felt amazing. It's like going old school for a bit sharpened my pencil to a nice fine point. I think my style got a little more defined.
Here's a few things from Inktober with some commentary.
I evidently like to draw things on a flat plain when sketching. I don't find I have this problem when I'm drawing digitally. With pencil however I am much more comfortable on a level plain.
I like watercolors that layer very well. I know some don't, I don't like those. Gotta be able to put layer over layer. I'll be getting watercolor specific paper next year also. The Mixed Media paper was a bit of a mix for me. Easy on the inking but much harder to control the color.
Make sure your things work together. I used a pen that pretty much dissolved when introduced to water. It made getting color on this one pretty hard. You can see it on the bottom of the side window where it blew out. Also the exhaust wasn't suppose to be as dark as it turned out. That was all a result of the pen bleeding so badly. I only used the pen on this one drawing and only cause I hadn't used it before and wanted to try it out. Big mistake.
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