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Description Well professors and classmates both have been telling me for many a semester that I need to find a way to combine painting with my inkwork. Frankly I've never been able to connect my paining in my mind with efficient illustration, but they all seem convinced. My recent noir illustrations were an attempt at that....it didn't work out. So I'm biting the bullet and just painting on my inks.

This was an absolute pain to assemble in photoshop cause my scanner here is A) bad and B) small.

Breifly, my process, cause it was an experiment that happened to work out: did my inks on 1 ply bristol, scanned it, then soaked it for about a minute and then stapled it to homosote, and painted on it. Good for you, bristol!

I like this enough to keep experimenting with it, I think.

Also thank you to tir-ri who inspired me with [link] when I was frustrated and uninspired.
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Comments: 53

likelytodisaster [2011-07-15 16:30:45 +0000 UTC]

Elsie is the name of my aunt, and, awkwardly, the girl in the picture do remind me a picture of her in her youth days... Anyway, very nice drawing. You're awesome with poses and perspective, I wish I could draw something as natural as you do...

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Thisper [2011-04-03 01:23:11 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Lovely moment, mood, and lighting. You are very inspiring in illustration

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timetofrolic [2011-02-26 04:16:06 +0000 UTC]

This is ridiculously amazing. You are a master of inking! lovely colors as well, and Elsie's hair is wonderful.

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EllieTooMuch [2011-02-15 00:09:17 +0000 UTC]



whoa. love this!

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crimson-shine [2011-02-03 22:43:24 +0000 UTC]

Wow!

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DaisiesForMyLove [2011-01-28 03:35:12 +0000 UTC]

THIS REMINDS ME OF THAT SCENE FROM THE BOOK BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE. WHERE THE "WITCH" SHOW'S THEM HER TREE. BECAUSE SHE'S BLIND ALCOHOLIC, AND SHE HANGS ALL OF HER EMPTY BOTTLES ON THE TREE. /BRINGS BACK MEMORIES

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SweGrrl [2011-01-26 23:27:27 +0000 UTC]

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SaskiaDeKorte [2011-01-26 09:54:07 +0000 UTC]

well I think this looks fantastic :3

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Terror-and-Love [2011-01-18 19:33:56 +0000 UTC]

I am really enjoying your style

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KIRKparrish [2011-01-05 00:24:01 +0000 UTC]

dude your noir illustrations are badass. keep at em!

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nahrain [2011-01-01 22:03:57 +0000 UTC]

love it !good work talented.

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OrangePopFox [2010-12-31 00:18:01 +0000 UTC]

I would call this a successful attempt. Sounds like a hassle though, good luck with improving the process.

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ayuICHI [2010-12-23 21:58:58 +0000 UTC]

Awww so nice!

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HeliotropeRoots [2010-12-22 07:22:05 +0000 UTC]

This is really beautiful - I love how you've combined your wonderful inks with the painting

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explosive-toaster [2010-12-22 05:03:36 +0000 UTC]

This is really gorgeous, I like what you've done! The colors are just beautiful.

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INKNOSE [2010-12-21 23:06:03 +0000 UTC]

my favorite kind of illustration usually involves lines or "inks" which are bold and complete enough to stand on their own without color or painting... and I feel like you really have that down. but it would be cool to see a combination of the two, and I think you have found a nice balance in this piece!

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Lelpel [2010-12-21 21:51:47 +0000 UTC]

Briliant! Totally worth the pain.. well I guess that's easy for me to day...

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Mudora [2010-12-21 21:31:27 +0000 UTC]

Maybe it would work out better if you painted first, then inked it somehow... then again, I'm not sure if the ink would hold.

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tombancroft [2010-12-21 19:35:18 +0000 UTC]

This works great! I'd buy a graphic novel illustrated like this- by you! Go for it.

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portuguesemutt [2010-12-21 19:18:25 +0000 UTC]

All that hard work paid off. This is awesome.

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Sparry87 [2010-12-21 19:12:41 +0000 UTC]

I think you did a great work, but I want to comment that, you maybe should think about details next time. I hope I can describe it well, because my english is not well yet. your art is nice, but when I first time see the redhair girl, I think she got a black hat. because of the shadow from the rock behind her.
After that I could see that it was a shadow. Maybe you should remember it next time, so the another people should not misunderstanding somenthing in your art

When I first time see it, I think it was a pirate redhair girl, which was looking at glasses hanging on the trees
I like this art, the perspective, nature, linework, character. You did it all awesome

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Mizzy-chan [2010-12-21 17:06:30 +0000 UTC]

Ohh this process sounds interesting. What do you mean by soaking your Bristol? In water? does it just make the inks wash out? what did you paint in it with, acrylics?

and i love looking at all your painterly brush strokes.

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toerning In reply to Mizzy-chan [2010-12-21 18:47:29 +0000 UTC]

When you're using paper that isn't meant to take water, it gets really buckly and unmanageable. If you soak it uniformly in a bath and then staple it to a board all round the edges while it's still wet and then let it dry flat, it will dry in its stretched state so that when you use water-based medium on it it doesn't get all funky on you. I use a permanent ink so it only washed off in a few places, which was my hope. This makes it easier for me cause I can still use the lightbox to ink because I'm using a pretty thin paper (it's about the equivalent of drawing paper.) So I painted it with watercolor and gouache, as usual.

Hope that helps, and thanks!

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Mizzy-chan In reply to toerning [2010-12-21 19:16:57 +0000 UTC]

This really does help!
Thanks so much!!
I am so going to try this out over break!

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Alicemonstrinho [2010-12-21 16:17:01 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure you are gonna find a pleasant way on your ink and coloring style! This image here is awesome just like the way it is, in my opinion, so I think it's definetly working out

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Funnybumps [2010-12-21 15:45:30 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely beautiful, I love everything : the lines, the colors, the textures... Great great great work !

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flamehead23a [2010-12-21 14:50:36 +0000 UTC]

I know next to nothing about visual art, so I can't provide any helpful words of wisdom that could remedy your dilemma. Sorry.

what I CAN say is that this picture is hella awesome, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. Fantastic work, had as it may have been.

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salamanderFLAME [2010-12-21 13:23:31 +0000 UTC]

Cute.

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jan0sch [2010-12-21 12:32:10 +0000 UTC]

I really like it. Good work.

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Marmottegarou [2010-12-21 12:06:54 +0000 UTC]

very cool

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GreenSprite [2010-12-21 11:52:02 +0000 UTC]

Well damn, I could've sworn it's digital colour. Pretty textures!

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Dialogous [2010-12-21 11:51:45 +0000 UTC]

This mix looks pretty nice to me.

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Jubesfan [2010-12-21 11:01:22 +0000 UTC]

LOVE LOVE LOVE

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1Spoon-of-Turquoise [2010-12-21 09:34:28 +0000 UTC]

Love it! It seems like it's a story there. You should definitely continue your little experiment. And now you encoureged me to try the ink...I've been wanting to do that for a while and you just gave me a boost.

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Gromoptak [2010-12-21 08:57:15 +0000 UTC]

I love the colours here. It reminds me old "Thorgal" comics, you know it? Back to your picture- the dark wood , the bottles, I want to know more about it ! Misterious! That's why it's my favourite.

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KypFox [2010-12-21 08:23:08 +0000 UTC]

Stunning! I can't wait for more!

I couldn't agree with more!

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Red-SkyeArtiste [2010-12-21 06:49:11 +0000 UTC]

iiii like it!
lovely technique... keep at it!

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ThreeMode [2010-12-21 06:44:33 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE the shading, how it goes from a bright color to total black.

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destinylauritsen [2010-12-21 06:17:43 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful! I love the varied textures and the bottles look wonderfully luminous. In fact, this makes me want to go hang some bottles from my trees right now...

Awesome illustration!

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ZEBES [2010-12-21 04:11:56 +0000 UTC]

I think it looks pretty awesome and oldschool, you have a nice palette going on here, too (not saying it COULDN'T be better, I guess it still could), so I'd say it's a good experiment!

PS: I could SWEAR it was a picture of Goku when looking at the thumbnail... the dark area on top of her head looked jjust like Goku's hair!!

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No-Nami [2010-12-21 03:11:15 +0000 UTC]

This is wonderfully done. =O What sort of paint did you use?

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toerning In reply to No-Nami [2010-12-21 15:13:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I used watercolor and gouache

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nicholaskole [2010-12-21 03:10:08 +0000 UTC]

Wait; you think the noir pieces DIDN'T WORK OUT? YOU CRAZY!?

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toerning In reply to nicholaskole [2010-12-21 14:38:46 +0000 UTC]

haha no no let me rephrase- I think they're successful illustrations, but they didn't find a solution to the painting-and-ink thing; during my final critique with those, MJ brought it up again and that was the time that finally convinced me to do it. Don't worry, I'm quite fond of them!

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nicholaskole In reply to toerning [2010-12-21 15:10:04 +0000 UTC]

phew. Alright. cool.

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fox914 [2010-12-21 02:58:49 +0000 UTC]

*I* think it looks great!

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dobie [2010-12-21 02:37:23 +0000 UTC]

whoa, so you ... inked it and then digitally put the inks over top the painting when you were done? holy shit!!! thats so cool! i was looking at this forever trying to figure out how you painted over the inks without ruining it

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GreenSprite In reply to dobie [2010-12-21 11:52:51 +0000 UTC]

Ah, that explains it. I was wondering how come the paint didn't cover the inks. Smart indeed!

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SeraphL [2010-12-21 02:25:08 +0000 UTC]

Also I like the scene very much. With the coloured glass it somehow feels very Christmassy, and I wonder who put them there

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SeraphL [2010-12-21 02:24:02 +0000 UTC]

It's good! Don't give up (and dont you just hate it when other people are right, lol) All I would say for critique is that I wasn't sure if that black shadow above her head was her hair or not, it reads a bit like an afro. I had to readjust my eyes a bit before I spotted her actual hair.

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