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Published: 2015-03-17 05:24:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 918; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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Next page: spacedogs introIf you're new to Spacedogs, here's a link to Chapter 1
© vince andrews 2014 - 2015
Technical pens, concentrated watercolor, watercolor, inkwash, and gouache on Arches hotpress block. I'm not completely happy with the skin tones, but it was a fun experiment and all in all I'm pretty happy with it
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Concentrated watercolor? What is that? Do you mean dye? (i.e. Doc P.H. Martin's "colored inks" - which are not inks, but dyes)
The rocks are nicely rendered, but the sand looks like you dicked with it too much. With water color, as you know, one can't make many passes. If you don't get what you want with the first and second, it's a bust.
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Yeah I think they're also called dyes, you can do a lot more passes with them. It was my first time messing with them and I've got more to learn. The sand came out a little off, and there were some other things that bugged me but all in all I like them. Always good to try new tools.
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. . . and as far as passes, you have to be very particular about how you lay in dyes. they build in layers, so one pass. Like anything else, you can keep a stroke alive if you keep a wet edge. But once you wipe it flat and dry, once the bead is gone, a noticeable layering effect will result. So, I guess the tip would be to keep a wet edge. Which sounds like a dirty double entendre that might come from the mouth of one of these guys. XD
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yeah I've done quite a bit of inkwash which is very similar as far as technique goes, the only difference i've noticed is the colors can start to separate if you over work them
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just did a coloring demo. He posted it in his journal this week.
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Yeah. Dyes. I have no idea why they call them watercolors. Water color is a suspension of pigment in water. A dye is a solution; there are no particles in it.
You can cut these with water up to 50 percent, which is better than using them concentrated from the bottle. Gray Morrow did some beautiful work with them - Orion, for one. I have a set from when his wife and I went to Kubert's back in 2002, or thereabouts. I have yet to use them for anything since it was at that time that I set my sights on mastering ink (the black kind - which like water color is a suspension, but of carbon, instead of pigment - lol).
All the illustrators from the Silver age and back colored with dyes when they colored for comics. You're following the right footsteps. Good luck with them. Wish I could give you some better pointers.
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thanks! they're fun, if you still have the old set you should mess around with them a little
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Indeed; I do have them. I'll get to them one of these days. For now it's digital. XD
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Nice! Awesome work in this cover! Loving Mickey's improvised parasol.
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Me too, they're Gravity Boots that he jacked from his old job at Earth Watch. He was supposed to turn them in at the end of his shift but there was quite a bit of confusion going on and no one asked, so he decided to keep them.
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Ah. You never know if they can come in handy one moment or another. Not being able to use them could actually become a running gag ...
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hmmm, you've given me an idea, I'll have to see if i can squeeze it into chapter 4... thanks!
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Looking forward to seeing how it'll fit in. Glad to have been of ... Inspiration ...
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Awesome! Love the colors. Time to invest in some shorts and flipflops.
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thanks! yup, and some sunscreen
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