--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Scrapper Black Dragon
<scrapperbd_at_y...> wrote:
>
> --- Siegl <ceoazt_at_y...> wrote:
> > the scanner didn't render the beauty of the lead lines,
> > and I have
> > been forced to accentuate the shadows, so the pages seem
> > a little dirty...
> Painfully aware of this problem, especially since I tend to
> do quite a lot of erasing that in turn tends to dirty up
> the page. Using a putty eraser helps minimise the issues.
> Maybe someone who sketches in the 'red' pencil can tell us
> if it eliminates this problem of page grubbiness as well as
> scanning better?
Mmmmh, I've never tried this, but it COULD be a solution... Only if
I find a red lead pencil that fits my lineart and taste... Because
the classic lead pencil got a "soul" (a result on paper) that's
impossible to replace by any other tool for me.
The problem here is to scan in shades of grey : it always make this
dirty effect (at least for me, but I've seen quite a few other pics
that got the same problem), although the sheet is perfectly
white !!!! When I clean the lines with a ballpen, there is no
problem because it's so dark, I can lighten the result until
the "dirt" is washed away, the lines are still visible. But here,
the lead lines are almost of the same kind as the "dirt", so if I
lighten it, everything is washed away !!!!!! T_T
>
> > Oh, last thing, as there was no more room on the group
> > once again, i
> > have been forced to delete two of my previous uploads :
> Yeah, sorry about that... Don't know if JMH has got those
> as yet, so may have to co-ordinate to get them onto the web
> page. Gives you a change to add the missing line from the
> wheel rim. :-)
Ha ha ha, you still remember this ? :D
Well, yes, if uploading again or mailing this pic is required, I may
correct this... ^^
>
> > I can only access the web on some weekends.
> Explains why you've been 'quiet' of late.
Not really, in fact, if you look well, I react from times to times
to some uploads (Jim's for most, but also my friend Civasco lately),
but as for drawing, I just don't take a pen and put lines on paper,
looking for what will happen. I need a clear idea first, and when I
say a "clear idea", that means a situation that pleases me, that
means also it won't be just a girl-on-girl thing you can see
everywhere, or a naughty close-up (doesn't mean that I don't
appreciate those !!!)... No, it MUST be really related to their name
(see my skunkworks pun, the pic in which I drew the Blackbird), to
their temper (the easy_riders pic where I gave each girl the vehicle
I thought would match them best) or at least to their nature (all
the skunk crossovers I did with ZZ for example), or that really
deserves them in some way (those last pics which are classic in
their composition, but in which I tried something new, portraying
them quickly as an artist would do with a real model). Those ideas
are hard to get, because they must really mean something for me at
the moment I am about to draw them (not to mention I'm not in the
mood for drawing every day, far from it). So I'm mostly lurking the
rest of the time... ^^''
> Starting a new
> job on Monday (after three months of no job) is mostly
> likely going to change my net usage!
Well, I guess so !!!! I'm very glad you found a new job "so fast"
(plus you seemed very stressed the last time you told us about the
loss of your old one), I had to wait a year to find this one...
>
> Great to see you churning out some fan art! At least you
> were kind to Jim in making him a fairly fit fellow and not
> some flabby fan-boy figure! :-D
Well, I just drew him the way he drew himself in the skunkworks
stories ! It's somehow a bad side I got in my art, I try to stick at
max to the original designs.
> We haven't seen any
> fanart of Jim as the porcupine yet from memory...
Just as I said above : I first wanted to draw him this way, but as
we never saw him in such a state in the skunkworks stories...
>
> Other than Natasha being one of my favourite characters,
> there is something particularly appealing about the Natasha
> pic you uploaded. Appreciation of 'fine female figures'?
> :-P
Weeeeeell, Natasha is indeed the character who is the less close to
the original in these uploads, I don't know how it happened, and I
can't point the finger on what's "wrong" with her (it's probably the
entire shape and details), but that's certainly giving her a new
look that's at least interesting, yes...
>
> Scrapper, Black Dragon, who should see if he can finish
> another pic today before going to his new job tomorrow.
>
Good luck with your new job, my friend !!! ^^
Received on Sun Nov 06 2005 - 01:33:39 CST