Yesterday and today, I brushed at least one of the images – p4 today “At the Barbershop” and p4 yesterday “The Uruguayan Soccer Team”. The one for today worked a lot better. Ink goes on quickly and for the most part the ink goes on very evenly. I’m going to start using pens only to crosshatch and add small details. I really like how the brushed lines feel and can see how they become an emotional part of the art compared with pens where lines are simply boarders. The interesting thing about today’s strip is that the brushed image only took a little longer than the pen-drawn image “Woot!!!”. This was also the case yesterday. Actually, the brushed image yesterday went much faster than the pen-drawn image. Both were fast and so that was nice, but if I can keep this up, I hope to be able to brush everything. Quality is the main reason. Pen-drawn the line quality takes too long.
I think I might go back to photo-safe blue mechanical-pencils soon. I had to re-ink several lines after erasing. The next step will be to do everything on bristol. Not yet, I still have to work on my handwriting (I am working on it, but I’m not satisfied with how the handwriting works - it takes as long to tighten-up handwritten text as does to do anything else, so I have to perfect it before I try to put it in the strip (maybe dip pens?)).
