Spamboo Diddley Bow & Cocoamp pg 123 2-9-2010 - Other Crafts

C Chongolio Member The Coast of Kauai Joined: Oct 02, 2002 Posts: 2765	C Chongolio Posted posted on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 8:19 PM Mahalo LLT for the stoke! I am still trying to get the hang of gouache and still struggling with getting an opaque highlight that doesn't blur my pen brush strokes. I will have to give the Chiaroscuro approach a try some time. It''s been a trip using the dark blue pens for my dark line as opposed to my usual black outline everything approach. I checked out Mark Marek's site and dug the loose and raw style that he has. (but the site itself was a little too loosy goosy for my navigationally challenged brain.) His style reminds me a lot of Gary Panter. I am trying more and more to approach my sketches and studyies with a looser hand and then tighting up on my paintings but I am such a nit picker even when I am just doodlin' around town. That is one of the many things I admire about your studies; the controlled looseness they all have. Here is another scan of a rough pencil logo comp I did for a client. (I will post an pic of the actual logo through the various stages if I get the O.K. to do so from the client.) After he picked one of the other comps I had given him to develop into his logo, I went in one night with the tombo pens and colored this one up one time. Here is the The Bean Doctor: Just tombo brush pens in a sketch pad.

Mahalo LLT for the stoke! I am still trying to get the hang of gouache and still struggling with getting an opaque highlight that doesn't blur my pen brush strokes. I will have to give the Chiaroscuro approach a try some time. It''s been a trip using the dark blue pens for my dark line as opposed to my usual black outline everything approach.

I checked out Mark Marek's site and dug the loose and raw style that he has. (but the site itself was a little too loosy goosy for my navigationally challenged brain.) His style reminds me a lot of Gary Panter. I am trying more and more to approach my sketches and studyies with a looser hand and then tighting up on my paintings but I am such a nit picker even when I am just doodlin' around town. That is one of the many things I admire about your studies; the controlled looseness they all have.

Here is another scan of a rough pencil logo comp I did for a client. (I will post an pic of the actual logo through the various stages if I get the O.K. to do so from the client.) After he picked one of the other comps I had given him to develop into his logo, I went in one night with the tombo pens and colored this one up one time. Here is the The Bean Doctor:

Just tombo brush pens in a sketch pad.

Post #397530 by Chongolio on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 8:19 PM