tracing, revivification and travel

elise — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:42:00 +0000

I have three things to say.
1. I love my lightbox. (Thank you Peter, lightbox-maker.)
2. I am gratefully much less dead now.
3. I will be in Sydney this weekend for ASA madness (Barbara Jefferis Award, AGM and Colin Simpson Memorial lecture – being given by the eloquent Shaun Tan) stretching from Friday evening till Sunday. So if you’re coming too please say hi! I’ll be scarpering Sunday afternoon to get to a friend’s wedding reception back in Melbourne. Which means frocking up on the plane as I’ll be doing one of those romantic comedy dashes from taxi to plane to taxi and bursting in through the doors of the venue… all much less stressful when you’re just a guest and not a romantic lead.

Pirates today. So… roughs on the lightbox, drawing paper on top, 6H pencil doing a light trace ready for the final ink wash and nib treatment. Ahh the nib. I can see I’ll be collecting more of these. Who sells lovely nibs?? More fine/interesting ones for drawing than fat square ones for calligraphy. And feathers… are feathers actually good to draw with?

And here’s a picture of course. Another rough from the Pirate book.

the nib bears fruit

elise — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:47:29 +0000

And here’s what the nib did… It was lovely to use. I found that varying the pressure gave the most beautiful lines. It looks almost like brushwork.

This is one of the possible dinkusses (dinki?) to go in the Bloodflower novel, for which I just finished the maps.

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tracing, revivification and travel

the nib bears fruit