Doseybat

[compilerbitch]

A pen drawing of Doseybat I did while we were on holiday in Cornwall. I'd been meaning to scan it for ages, but kept forgetting to take my sketch book into the lab.

Since some people expressed shock that I might occasionally draw something that *didn't* include a Fluffy, I thought it might be good to include this one.

(There will be Fluffies later though, so don't worry...)

Comments

[chard.livejournal.com]

Nice rendering! What materials did you use?

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

It's quite thick, good quality art paper with a calendared finish. Nothing special, just a cheap sketchbook really. I roughed it out very lightly with an 0.5mm propelling pencil, then used a selection of fibre tip technical drawing pens of various line thicknesses (0.8mm, 0.5mm, 0.2mm, 0.1mm, 0.05mm) to ink in the detail. I tend to use 0.8 for external edges, then thinner pens for progressively more internal edges down to a limit of about 0.2mm. All the shading, hair detail and cloth patterns were done with the 0.05mm pen.

I used my usual trick for preparing line art for the web, which was to scan it at high resolution (usually about 800dpi), threshhold it to get rid of any traces of paper texture or unerased pencil remnants and to make the blacks as solid as possible, cubic resample down to the final size, then a sharpen filter tweaked so the edges don't look soft, but aren't quite jagged either.

[chard.livejournal.com]

… used my usual trick for preparing line art for the web …

Yes, that's what I do with things like . More recently I've been experimenting with directly drawing in Photoshop, to produce things like . Have you tried that? What do you make of it?

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

They are both lovely drawings.

I have tried drawing with a graphics tablet, but never really got away with it. I tend to find that I like to use vector packages like Xara for technical illustration, and/or 3D packages like Lightwave for more heavy duty purposes, but I have a liking for ordinary pen and paper too.

Your photoshop drawing is interesting -- it has something about it that is difficult to pin down. It's definitely a drawing, but it doesn't look quite like pen. Very nice.