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ARSENIC LULLABY INKING
CONTEST!
Download an image, ink it as best you can, and maybe win
some stuff!
I picked out some Arsenic Lullaby
illustrations of varying degrees of difficulty and each with
different challenges. You can play to your strong suits or try
something out of your normal skill set. I used a brush for
every line on these (except boarders) but you can use whatever
means you like as long as it is not digital.
Grand prize winner gets 3SBD! ( that's a crypto
currency for those of you who did not come here from Steemit)
AND
a two pages of original art . One that's done
and one
pencilled but not inked attempt at a page. Y'see, once
in a while a page just gets to far into my head and I redo
it a bunch of times...making subtle changes that probably
didn't really matter.
(my camera kinda sucks at
photographing penciled work, so here's a pic and a scan)
1 runners up will also get semi
finished original art. Pencilled but not fully inked attempt at a page)
All contestants will get
featured on our page and get a 10.00 off gift certificate to our
online store.
A "contestant" is defined as someone
putting an honest effort into it and completing a whole
illustration ( Don't think your going to just run a sharpie over
it for five minutes and get 10.00 off at our store.) you don't
have to be great, but you do have to try.
Below are some modified versions of recent work that you can
download and print out and ink yourself! Each has been dialed
back to non-photo blue so you can attempt to ink over the pre
drawn lines just like the pros do! ( the single images fit on a
standard letter size, the full page is larger and you'll need
11x14 or 11x17 paper. If you have the means to enlarge
or reduce the images, feel free to do so)
IF you don't have the
means of printing these out but still want to try, send me an
email and we can arrange it for me to send you the image on
bristol board ( no charge for that but I ain't paying shipping )
Deadline Nov.1st
send entries to
douglaspasz -at- arseniclullabies.com
approach this
however you like, but the job of the professional inker it not
to wildly change the image when inking by adding his own style.
The inks should more or less look like the style they were drawn
it. You don't have to do it that way, but you probably
won't win if you put your own spin on it. but hey, we're
just doing this for fun anyhow, so just have fun.
Some of
these lines may seem impossible...but they ain't. I did
every line here, free hand, with a brush. You don't have
to do it that way...and I really don't even recommend that (
there are a lot of lines here that it would have been smarter to
use a pen and straight edge...but I'm stubborn, and also to lazy
to go get a straight edge once I'm inking)
I have
an inking video up on youtube
VIDEO
HERE it is about using a brush,
but the techniques can be applied to pens as well. I may
put up another video this week.
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Arsenic Lullaby Ouija Board
I'm not
going to lie...this one's pretty tough. There are a lot of
straight lines and the lettering might be nerver wracking.
Just relax. Tackle one line at a time. Start with thee
types of lines you feel comfortable with. If small
curves are working for you, do all of those first, and
work your way up to the lines that are more of a
challange.
If
you ink this way (all of one type of line at a time)
make sure to refine the whole thing once you're
done...take a look at it make sure the line thicknesses
work together despite being drawn by type of line rather
than as a whole composition.
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Arsenic Lullaby "the Devil's
Digest" Voodoo Joe cover
This one has a lot of lines that
will be easy and a lot that will be tough. The maks and fetuses
are organtic and stray lines won't be noticed. The bottle
and chairs and countertop...those'll be tougher.
I started with the mask
on this because it's the central focus and if you get
that right...they rest is a visual after though. Unless
you really murder something else on the cover...people
will just see a cool looking mask.
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Arsenic Lullaby "the Devil's
Only Friend" Voodoo Joe cover
This one is a lot of work, BUT
there is a lot of romm for error. There is SO much going on,
visually, that little mistakes here and there just aren't going
to be noticed.
Also, because there is so
much going one and levels of depth and things obscuring
the complete view of other things...there aren't that
many really long lines to deal with.
This one is just a
marathon of getting a lot of short to small lines done
well...and just a few long nerve wracking ones. (that
head boad, for example , probably isn't going to be much
fun)
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EXPERT LEVEL
Arsenic Lullaby full page
This one runs the gambit, and
it's going to test your constancy and ability to get all the
panels working together...while still conveying the different
moods of the page and affect on the reader.
When I'm doing a page
(this may or may not be great advice) I jump around, do
all of one kind of line (like short curves) then all of
another kind. Attack the page as a whole and not panel
by panel. Just keep plugging away doing the lines you
are comfortable with. Build that confidence as you
go. By the time you get to the difficult things you'll
have a lot done and a good head of stream going.
This is complicated, BUT
there is a lot for the eye to take in. Minor
mistake aren't going to be very noticable.
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