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Woverine, Wolverine, Wolverineby *RichardPace

Cartoons & Comics / Traditional Media / Comics / Other

The one thing that I really like to take away from drawing these sketch cards is how much fun it is to draw in an area larger than 2.5x3.5". Slapping those three cards side-by-side made the drawing seem suddenly huge in comparison. So broad an expanse it was that I chose to ink the thing with brush and ink. When done I realised I never tested the ink under my trusty Copics.
Oops.
I was thinking that a combination of fixative and transparent gesso might be something to bring in here (Bill Sienkiewicz put me on to that at last year's Toronto FanExpo), but decided to leave it alone for a bit and had a tea. Coming back to it I decided that I needed to let the inking stand on it's own and started considering just toning the background. I obviously went for the bleeding-eye red, but I considered darker and more neutral colours initially.

One of the really nice things about drawing characters like Wolverine is that they let you go to places that trigger an immediate response in the viewer.

=urban-barbarian Jun 29, 2010

Awesome cards!!! Someone[s] is lucky as hell out there!!!

*RichardPace Jun 29, 2010 Professional General Artist

Thanks, Dan!

Well, they said they were really happy with them, so I'm satisfied, too.

~davidyardin Jun 27, 2010 Professional

You've definitely captured Wolverine's visceral nature. Love the foreshortening and the line work too.

*RichardPace Jun 28, 2010 Professional General Artist

Thanks -- my Windsor Newton gave up its ghost inking that. It was an aged brush and on it's last legs anyway, but I'm still sad to see the old boy go.

I don't do enough inking to justify a deep stock of brushes, especially with the failure rate of new W&N, but I do love it when I get the chance.

~davidyardin Jul 4, 2010 Professional

Yeah the W&N brushes... I seem to be going through a lot lately. Nobody makes anything like they used to anymore (said in my old man's voice).

*RichardPace Jul 4, 2010 Professional General Artist

I've been hearing good things about the W&N sable/synthetic blends, but it's usually of the "almost as good, lasts as long but much cheaper variety" not that they last as long as the brushes I could get in the 80s and early 90s.

Heavy sigh. . . .

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