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like the sun, up on high
Related to yesterday's post, I realised that I watch two artists on youtube (one of whom was the one I was talking about in that post), and both of them talk a lot about their OCs and also they make a lot of fanart! Which. Most of the artists I watch on youtube don't do that! Kasey Golden does, and Doodle Date do (certainly fanart, less so OCs), but most of them don't do that for whatever reason or they don't create art with people in.
I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here, except that it's been cool seeing these two drawing their OCs? (And I've been watching them both for nearly a year now, so possibly it's taken this long for their influence to seep into my brain? WHO KNOWS).
Talking of artists I follow inspiring me to do stuff: I recently started following an artist on twitter who is from Bradford, which is where I went to uni. Anyway! She does comics and stuff (she's had a book published!) and she uses dip pens for some of her inking work (she also uses Pilot G-TEC-C4 pens sometimes and they're one of my faves). She has a G nib that she uses, and it made me think that I ought to get more practised with mine. I've got a Nikko, but I don't know what make hers is, as all G nibs look alike, it turns out!
I mean, I have neglected using my dip pen of late in part because I've been feeling uncreative and also wanting to do other stuff, like painting, and lino cutting. But I bought the G nib back around Xmas time because I read somewhere that it's what most manga artists use to ink comics and I wanted to give it a go, and see what I thought. Except that I haven't really done much with it since I got it.
So perhaps it is time to do some practice! If only I liked sitting at my desk, where all my pens and inks are! (I prefer curling up on my bed or a sofa/chair, but neither of those is really a good environment in which to have an open bottle of ink).
It's nice to feel inspired! Especially since I remember this time last year, and I was feeling so mushy and uninspired, and I didn't know what to do with myself. But now I want to make stuff! And it feels great!
I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here, except that it's been cool seeing these two drawing their OCs? (And I've been watching them both for nearly a year now, so possibly it's taken this long for their influence to seep into my brain? WHO KNOWS).
Talking of artists I follow inspiring me to do stuff: I recently started following an artist on twitter who is from Bradford, which is where I went to uni. Anyway! She does comics and stuff (she's had a book published!) and she uses dip pens for some of her inking work (she also uses Pilot G-TEC-C4 pens sometimes and they're one of my faves). She has a G nib that she uses, and it made me think that I ought to get more practised with mine. I've got a Nikko, but I don't know what make hers is, as all G nibs look alike, it turns out!
I mean, I have neglected using my dip pen of late in part because I've been feeling uncreative and also wanting to do other stuff, like painting, and lino cutting. But I bought the G nib back around Xmas time because I read somewhere that it's what most manga artists use to ink comics and I wanted to give it a go, and see what I thought. Except that I haven't really done much with it since I got it.
So perhaps it is time to do some practice! If only I liked sitting at my desk, where all my pens and inks are! (I prefer curling up on my bed or a sofa/chair, but neither of those is really a good environment in which to have an open bottle of ink).
It's nice to feel inspired! Especially since I remember this time last year, and I was feeling so mushy and uninspired, and I didn't know what to do with myself. But now I want to make stuff! And it feels great!
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