John W. Allie - Airborne Cactus » ink http://johnwallie.com John W. Allie's personal corner of the internet Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Illustration: King Lear http://johnwallie.com/2011/01/07/illustration-king-lear/ http://johnwallie.com/2011/01/07/illustration-king-lear/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:58:23 +0000 custodian http://johnwallie.com/wpmu/mainblog/?p=250 For purposes of practice and portfolio-expanding (and my interest in projects like Picture Book Report), I have challenged myself to create an illustration for every book I read this year. The first book I finished was my re-read of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Thus:

King Lear

Ink and watercolor with minor digital modification.

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inktest

The characters are inked with a nylon brush, the background with a nib pen, and the cross-hatching with a pigment liner marker. I tend to be kind of sloppy with a brush, so I probably will just use a nib for characters in the future. I’m planning to start doing all my crosshatching with markers, though, as that might potentially make my nibs last longer. (Whether Sunrise will begin to use extensive crosshatching remains to be seen.)

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