Ballpen point training
A recent photo of my sketchbook, still training with ballpoint pen directly, a cruel training. But I am beginning to get a better ability to imagine perspective grids without tracing them, and I can even begin to plan full-page compositions. It takes a while to build these new skills, but they are worth it.
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puniko@mk.absturztau.be
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org this looks incredibly good tbh, especially considering this is with a ballpoint pen
★weirdmustard@toot.community
Your sketches are awesome.
★deerbard@mstdn.io
Great drawings!
★The high heels in mountainous terrain though hehehe
glowl@chaos.social
@deerbard they must be enchanted with "you never stumble"
★davidrevoy
@glowl @deerbard @sindarina Haha 😅, you are totally right about the high heels: it is definitely a bad choice I made while drawing, probably because my brain was already fried trying to resolve the pose, view angle and anatomy. I really have to pay more attention to that. Thanks for pointing it out!
(and enchanted high heels boots is actually a good idea for a joke on Pepper&Carrot about unpractical female RPG equipments. Thanks Glowl! I'll note it somewhere 😺)
6 ★glowl@chaos.social
@deerbard @sindarina glad to contribute fun ideas ^^
★wmd@chaos.social
@glowl @deerbard @sindarina heh, like a cursed/blessed item of sorts that gives you a big bonus at a price.
+2 bluff, but -2 on dexterity.
★sindarina@ngmx.com
Nice work! 🙂
One small niggle; high heels? In a forest environment? 🤔😄
2 ★lps@masto.1146.nohost.me
wow, so cool to see these!
★ntoyohito@comicscamp.club
★Traditional has a unique feeling doesn't it? 😃 You get more immersed into the things you're drawing 😊 At least that's me
davidrevoy
@ntoyohito 😺 Totally! I feel more 'real time' and absorbed by what I'm doing.
With digital, a part of my brain knows it's a zero risk game with all the possibility to edit and undo, and so I'm always tempted to watch something while drawing, and I pay less attention because the challenge is flat...
Also, all the generative AI things spoiled a bit my appreciation of digital painting (and that's bad) so being on the sketchbook become really my fav room in start 2024.
ntoyohito@comicscamp.club
Next step traditional sketching tutorials for us noobs who find digital a pain to get used to :P
Glad to see you're enjoying it so much! :D
★Gen-AI is a good tool but as expected it's been used so nastily that has ended up being an enraging thing really :/
SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social
Orange bics >>> Normal bics.
Cool drawing by the way. :)
★davidrevoy
@SrEstegosaurio Oh yes, totally! The Crystal Fine tends to blot less over the drawing here than the regular Crystal, and feels also firm and more sharp.
★I observed something, but I'm not sure if it is placebo yet; when my hand heat too much a pen, the ink become much more liquid and the fluidity and micro leaking happens more often. I'm experimenting right now with carrying a couple of similar pen in my bag to let them cool down. Maybe I'll find a ballpoint pen with a metal body.
theCamelCaseBandit@mastodon.art
yay goblin!
★cdutson@mstdn.social
holy shit these are fantastic. and these are TRAINING SKETCHES? Dang
★davidrevoy
@cdutson Thanks! Yes, but to be fully honest, that's the best double page I have over the last 20 of practice. 😅
Th3s3us@mastodon.art
@cdutson
Training with a ballpoint pen? OMG, It looks great, and it's extremely clean.
★gersande@silvan.cloud
Beautiful work. Honestly! All in ballpoint too! Very well done.
★oliviersaraja@mamot.fr
j’adore vraiment le style crayonné, et au Bic, c’est littéralement sublime. Bravo 😍
★davidrevoy
@oliviersaraja Merci
!
★JizzelEtBass@kolektiva.social
#IdkMan, this is cricket Amazing!
★EJJames@mastodon.sdf.org
love it! Ballpoint pen is underrated as a medium imho
★davidrevoy
@EJJames Thanks! I really like how convenient it is: doesn't smudge, doesn't need to be sharpened, takes long to use ink. Oh, and super cheap and easy to find everywhere! That's what I prefer. For sure, it has many advantages compare to other art tools.
AblatedSprocket@emacs.ch
Man, how are you able to get such light strokes with ball point?
★davidrevoy
@AblatedSprocket Thanks! I tilt it so only a fraction of the ballpoint scratch the paper. My paper also is not a super smooth one (Canson sketchbook, a little grain) so I guess it plays also to get 'ghost' lines sometimes.
eight@sakurajima.moe
Pen sketches are really appealing to look at. 😲
★yrdael@mastodon.art
I mostly draw directly with ballpoint pen but man, do you rock ! Incredible scenery.
★I'm slowly getting back to drawing.
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