All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 12 - Page 55

gakinme · #**811** 07-26-2012, 01:15 AM

Here's a quick doodle I did to compare 2 brands.

Left one is Prisma Arstix, Right one is Koh I Noor Progresso woodless pencil.

The right one maintains brightness of colors and character. The left one's neck, I blend it with an Artstix which for some reason has no color. I thought it might be some umber but there's no color at all and so I used it as a blender and it's flat! I put more of the color to deepen and the colors get muddier and muddier.

The right one doesn't have that problem at all.

No solvent on this page.

The Art Stix is a background colorant and not necessarily even because it's made curled in most of the 48 pc set I have. Koh I Noor Progresso is literally a sketching pencil for multi sized strokes and of great evenness in the lead itself. It feels like a pencil and works like a pencil and not clunky like a rectangular short stick, and therefore, it's much more controllable.

This one has solvent.

Top piece is Koh I Noor Woodless Progresso colored pencils and bottom piece is Prismacolor Art Stix.

The brown bushes has Copic marker blender, Shinhan marker blender, Grumbacher pre tested odorless thinner in 3 segments. And boat has thinner.

Prisma is blotchier since it's softer. Under solvent, Progresso retains character and color but Prisma seems a bit more of a mess. Prisma is harder to erase after solvent. Progresso is very erasable even after solvent.

joesmithrealname · #**812** 07-26-2012, 03:18 AM

hi and thank you all!

that lil' thing?

standard letter paper landscape.

space gets VERY TIGHT!

used to do it in color, man, that was tense!

gakinme · #**813** 07-28-2012, 08:52 PM

wow, that is a small space to squeeze so many things in, Joe.

This is an elk bone I picked up from the beach today idealized.

Koh I Noor Woodless Progresso pencil
Japanese brush pen
Fabriano Artist Journal 7x9 inch

This is an octopus I did last year with colored pencil on black and today I used 11x14 inch canvas board, acrylic and then Sennelier oil pastels.

gakinme · #**814** 07-29-2012, 04:41 PM

This would be the last time I use the Classic Cachet sketchbook for watercolor. It's really meant for dry media.

Daniel Smith watercolor

This lizard took forever. It was in the same sketchbook with Golden crackle paste which didn't do much.

Daniel Smith watercolor
Koh I Noor Progresso colored pencil
Derwent inktense and watercolor pencil
Aquastic Cretacolor
Mitsubishi Uniball pencil
It's still a mess.

Continuing with my elk bone.

Two left one is Daniel Smith watercolor. Pencil details.
The biggest one has Walnut ink, watercolor and pencil of various types.
Lower right is Mitsubishi Uni Pencil 4B

Stillman & Birn Delta 180 lb sketchbook 9x12 inch sketchbook

joesmithrealname · #**815** 07-29-2012, 05:00 PM

bluemanjacob · #**816** 07-29-2012, 05:28 PM

Joe, pretty cool. Buddha is shaping you.

Sandra, All nice sketches. For some reason the octopus caught my attention.
I found some articles on Japanese tenacle erotica. Perhaps you know about this already. At any rate, very neat indeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_erotica

My wife went out of town with her dragon boat team for the weekend. She is arriving tomorrow on her birthday. I made this card for her.
After I printed it I went back over the lines with a black gel pen for a little more definition.

CandAlArt · #**817** 07-29-2012, 10:27 PM

Jake- Great bday card!! She will love it. Cool Disney font too.

Sandra, Elk bone? Where does it fit, or am I confused that it is a real elk bone? Part of it looks like a vertebrae. Cool designs you created with it! And I enjoyed your lizard even if you thought it turned out a mess.

JoeSmith, I do not know what the fat man is doing to the unfortunate head, but I like the drawing!!

gakinme · #**818** 07-29-2012, 10:28 PM

Joe, that is hilarious. Buddha playing with clay! Very cute!!!

Jake, what a neat card for your wife. The dragon looks very cheery ready for the win. Did she win? And yes, yes, I saw that octopus before too. I'm not too happy with this octopus. I like my colored pencil piece much better on smoother paper.

Here are some experiments.

This piece is done entirely with Dr. Ph Martin Bombay India ink. Still very hard to get a smooth color. I assume one could use photoshop.

This one was for Oil pastel August Challenge.

I sketched the returned soldier twice to get proportions and background on Pentalic 70 lb sketchbook 5.5 x 8 inch.

New York background is based on a photo from wiki commons by David Moriaux.

Then I used Arches 140 lb watercolor paper cold press and Daniel Smith watercolor.

11x14 inch

Then added Sennelier oil pastels. This would be the last time I will use plain cold press paper for oil pastel. Very hard to control.

I think it would have been better if I just stick with colored pencil sketches and cartoons for elaborate subjects as such.

bluemanjacob · #**819** 07-29-2012, 11:41 PM

Thanks for your comments Sandra and Candace.
Sandra, the still life looks great like that. The man looks great, too. Maybe sometime in the future you could experiment with the hot press watercolor paper which is smooth? Maybe block the colors in dry brush watercolor, then finish the detail with colored pencil.
I would be interest to see the outcome if you do!

Just doing birthday cards today. there are 3 in August.
This one is for my sister in laws husband. They are Deadheads. It was just a pencil sketch, enhanced and colored with Photoshop.

gakinme · #**820** 07-30-2012, 12:58 AM

Ha, Jake, that one is so cute. It has a cute caption. You're getting very good with your birthday cards!!

Candace, right, elk bone is part transformed here and there.

The last doodles for the weekend. Just when I finally feel better after all these weeks. I managed to stay 3 hours alive without painkillers and the day has ended.

A not so fast doodle - continue with my New York City practice.

The last of the blue 0.5 mm pencil lead from Jetpen and a dying Japanese 0.3 blue fine point marker.

Pentalic 70 lb sketchbook 5.5 x 8 inch

Sanford China marker at the bottom with deep pink Prisma Artstic and Caran D'Ache Pablo colored pencil, blue and a Pitt Oil base black pencil. The last two has no problem going over waxy stuff at all.

As always, faces to end the week.