I have a few of those pens, which I’d tried filling with water to deliberately wash the ink out of a line-drawing, turning it into shading, like I’d seen someone or another do on one of the hundred “sketches in a Moleskine” photo galleries. I didn’t have much success with that because, well, I don’t know what kind of paper to use anymore, so the drawings kept ending up as Rorschach blots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Searching around for good drawing pens yesterday (“best pen for cartooning”), I encountered repeated mentions of inking with a brush. Now, I’ve been reading about that since childhood, but I just never ‘got’ brushwork — I think because I like to be really controlled with my lines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Well, today I filled one of my wash-brushes with very black drawing ink and lost control.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
You know what? It was fun. And now I understand the beauty of the variable line — a look that, ironically, I’ve been trying to reproduce with felt-tips for years.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Lord, it was fun to draw this evening just for the hell of it! I feel ten again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I think I’ve been lost in being a business. Maybe I just want to have a job and not have to do anything extra in my spare time except create things for fun<\/em>. I mean, that’s what I’ve been saying <\/em>to people that they should do this whole while, but I’ve still been buying into that line that we have to produce things and sell them in vast numbers to count<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n To hell with that.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started drawing cartoons when I was in single-digits. In recent years, I only get around to it when it’s somebody’s birthday and I want to doodle something and make a card of it, but… I dunno. I kind of feel like doing it again. When I was at the alternative press fair in London, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}