Illustration Friday challenge: Book.
I did this drawing in about 15 minutes using traditional pen and ink fountain pens. I decided to invert the general practice of reading by transplanting the head to the hands and vice-versa.
I don’t think the black background added too much to the drawing.
I use a pentel aquash watercolor brush pen that I have filled with ink for the bigger spots.
Perhaps it would have been better to have left it out. Oh well.
Hope you enjoy.
Just a quick sketch of a dragonfly that I scanned and then inked in Corel Painter. I used the scratchboard tool under the pen category.
I like how it gives me thin and thick lines, much like a brush or fountain pen.
Dinosaur on a bicycle ink wash.
When I first started working with pen and ink, I used to color all my illustrations with ink, instead of watercolor. I had never used watercolor before, and for years I played with washes of ink.
Now I’m just on a small role, taking some Dr. Martin inks, diluting them with water and seeing what I could create.
Noting says fun than doing ink washes of dinosaurs, so this is the second in a series, until I get bored, of distracting projects that are too much fun.
Scanner may not pickup the color and gradations exactly, but it is pretty close.
Hope you enjoy.
I was recently inspired to play with a ink wash after seeing some beautiful work from a fellow artist. I took some Walnut ink that was sitting with my supplies, pulled out a sheet of hot press watercolor paper and began to play with the brush.
I am pretty happy with the work, though I wish the line work was a little thinner. It has been some time since I have done a complete work in brush that wasn’t digital.
I mixed a small bit of black ink to try to darken certain sections and to give it depth.
The subject is for the SCBWI bulletin, which has to do with book reviews.
The best compliment is that my son wants it on his wall.
https://stepheningram.com/2012/09/dinosaur/
Pen and ink illustration on Borden and Riley Paris Bleedproof Paper for Pens.
This is one of my favorite mediums to work. I have found that the Broden and Riley paper is the best to work with, though I do use hot press if I intend to watercolor the picture.
This is another sample for my art group of an illustration that I am going to submit to the SCBWI bulletin. I like the detail and I think mermaids are a pretty hot commodity, since everyone is getting tired of vampires.
One of my favorite dinosaurs with the coolest weapon. The stegosaurus, one of most unique dinosaurs that ever lived.
Sketched in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and then rendered in Corel Painter 12 using the pen and ink tool and Cintiq 21ux.
One of my favorite posters I created. Completely rendered in Corel Painter.
Working on a image to submit to the SCBWI bulletin with my art group.
Wanted to draw a young girl that seemed to dress a little different from the regular mainstream.
Decided to do this completely in traditional pen and ink. I did an underlying drawing in pencil, inked on top, erased and scanned.
