Early morning inking
Ninja May 4th, 2007
I didn’t go to bed ’til about 4am, so I did an ink sketch of Penguin. I finished the rest of it during my lunch break.
I ink in bed. I prop a pad of paper on my knees, and I’m good to go. Here, I decided to use sumi paper. I work pretty loosely and then add detail.
I wanted the focus to be on his eyes and hair, so I didn’t shade in the rest of the piece and left it as basic, gestural lines. Since I saturated the paper with so much ink for the hair, the paper started to buckle a bit. I ran it through the xyron so I could mount it to some bristol board, but it came out all wrinkled. Fortunately, Penguin likes it; he says it gives the paper character. I’m just annoyed at myself for being so careless. I should have used 3M repositionable mount and then burnished out the wrinkles.
Here’s a close up of his eye. I think I captured his eyebrows really well!
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