Actually, what you're looking at in the scan IS the original drawing. There's no B&W version; I just threw some 70% Cool Grey into the white areas and added some pale blue to the background, her eyes and her panties.
Three hours at a single sitting is nothing; I sometimes spend 8 hours working on a picture. I usually stop to eat when the grumbling from my gut gets annoying. I tend to get sorta hyper-focused and have been known to work on something for nearly 30 hours with few breaks.
Glad you liked the sketch! The full-color picture of Natasha oughta make you happy, then. It's far, far more detailed than the Val sketch.
--JMH
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Inkwell" <inkwell_01@...> wrote:
>
> Very nice sketch. But the scan doesn't show the detail in it
> too well. James drew some nice long slender whiskers on
> Val which is hard to view. The sexy pose around her shorts
> is also reduced by the scan; the detail is there but hard to
> view as well. (Contrast is gone. I think James was trying to
> show that the shorts were riding into her pussy and the
> gray-blue color high-light was to bring out the pussy lips for
> a 3D effect.)
>
> To view the line work print the sketch out in a black and white
> mode - you should see the long whiskers. There is a lot going
> on in the way of line work. I encourage anyone interested in
> drawing to cycle the sketch through a paint program like PhotoShop, or
> Paint Shop Pro, and experiment in viewing the line work using the
> different color (Brightness, Hue, Gamma, etc)
> and Edge image functions. You will find some interesting results. Study
> the line work. Some might like the results better than the original
> sketch. (Do a grey-scale and negative image to start with.)
>
> I would like to see the original sketch.
>
> Not bad for 3+ hours work on a test inking sketch.
> (3 hours straight? That's one cramped hand. ;O)
>
Received on Tue Mar 23 2010 - 00:27:46 CDT