#materials and techniques

[mashazart]

blade runner-inspired thing for class

[tonyrodriguezillustrator]

Digital color application demo for my students. We went from Graphite, to pen and ink, to water color, the digital color here. 

[dumperooforaberoo]

"remains"

9x12 watercolor paper

coffee, bleach

2022

materials and techniques 1, plate two: bleach art // 10/6 /22

erasure study

[dumperooforaberoo]

materials and techniques 1, plate one: frottage (shell study) // 9/28/22

[paintingorbust]

Encaustic Painting

c. 2019, encaustic on wood panel

Class assignment from Painting: Materials and Techniques

[creativiteaparty]

Handle With Repair

This is made with pressed flowers in between broken glass and plexiglass painted with watercolor and acrylic. The broken glass was unintentional at first, but I was like, hey, I can work with this! Looks just like my life! Ha!

[terribleterribleterrible]

I've gotten a good few questions about materials I use. I feel real self-conscious about answering because I feel I don't know what I'm doing half the time. But here are some pictures of my horribly-lit desk and a few of them.

I mostly work at 6x9" for comics. I've been mostly using smooth bristol but lately vellum has been growing on me.

I use the shit out of an ames guide (for lettering. I have a ways to go until I'm much good at lettering) and plastic T-square. A lot of my early inking is done with Faber-Castell Pitt pens, but I tend to fill in blacks with Speedball black waterproof ink and brushes and correct a lot of mistakes with Speedball white. I really like fancy watercolors but my palette is quite limited. I mostly use Winsor & Newton products because they're a good price for something so rich in pigment, but Grumbacher is pretty good too, and sometimes preferable if you're going for something a little lighter.

The order in the top image is: Neutral tint, ivory black, payne's gray, davy's gray, sepia, burnt sienna, cadmium red deep (my favorite color) cadmium red, aureolin, hooker's green, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, dioxazine purple. Soon I'm probably gonna be hitting up the shops to expand my palette and make my life a little easier. Right now there's a lot of color mixing involved, which is technically what you're supposed to do but maybe a little much effort when you're coloring a 30+ page comic. Clem's pants are always straight up davy's gray with a little ivory black thrown in, for example.

Some of my brushes are badly damaged because I tend to paint dry and do a lot of scrubbing. I sort of have designated brushes for different techniques and abuse, and I'm really fond of filberts and cat's tongues. But I also use rounds a lot.

I use gouache a lot for more vibrant colors/opacity and in particular I use white gouache with white ink to get smoke effects in some of my stuff. I dunno! That's just some stuff I use. I also have a W&N field watercolor kit that I love to pieces.

Hope that helped those who were wondering! I am not a watercolor expert. I could talk for hours about oil painting, and especially color mixing w/r/t oils, but even then I feel a little self-conscious.

Oh yeah, my penciling is mostly done with a kneaded eraser, stick eraser, and mechanical pencil. Pretty simple stuff there.