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Illuminating the darkness
10 years ago
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I've been using the Blackwings exclusively for about a month now and okay, maybe they ARE making me a better artist.
Not due to any magical quality they possess beyond that they make a really nice dark line. I've been drawing with harder lighter pencils for quite a while. It's easy to fuss with things for a long while. My linework is often scratchy, like I've really more sculpted the drawing on the page than drawn it deliberately.
Nothing wrong with that method of working other than it's not as fast or as clean as I would like for animation. The blackwing goes on dark with even a fairly light touch. There's not a whole lot of room for fussing around. As a result I'm finding I'm doing work that feels a bit more bold and confident and there's a flow and liveliness that I feel gets lost when I'm more scratchy.
Of course, it also makes mistakes more obvious but then obvious mistakes make it easier to break them down and work on fixing them.
None of this should be surprising I guess. Changing tools for a while and focusing on the details of what makes one different from another seems to be a great way to reveal things about the artistic process to oneself in general.
Not due to any magical quality they possess beyond that they make a really nice dark line. I've been drawing with harder lighter pencils for quite a while. It's easy to fuss with things for a long while. My linework is often scratchy, like I've really more sculpted the drawing on the page than drawn it deliberately.
Nothing wrong with that method of working other than it's not as fast or as clean as I would like for animation. The blackwing goes on dark with even a fairly light touch. There's not a whole lot of room for fussing around. As a result I'm finding I'm doing work that feels a bit more bold and confident and there's a flow and liveliness that I feel gets lost when I'm more scratchy.
Of course, it also makes mistakes more obvious but then obvious mistakes make it easier to break them down and work on fixing them.
None of this should be surprising I guess. Changing tools for a while and focusing on the details of what makes one different from another seems to be a great way to reveal things about the artistic process to oneself in general.
