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Traditional Art / Drawings / Illustration / Storybook

In the last couple of months, I've suffered enormously from art block. Mostly because I've gotten tired of digital. This is the first thing I've really done to get back on the horse, so to speak. I like black and white and I feel like I'm good at it, and this is a tentative piece to establish style. In my previous Demon Soul pass, I kind of went too far in eliminating line. But I realized I like it too much as an element to let go if it completely. A lot of my initial inspiration for the style was done by classic comic and old World of Darkness illustrations, especially Steve Prescott.
Having said all that, I had to rescue this digitally anyway. I ran afoul of the combination of masking fluid and bristol board trying to get spatter texture. I wish I'd run across this tutorial a lot sooner, so I'll definitely spread the word of warning: masking fluid hates bristol, and if you don't believe me, go here: [link]
I'm definitely open to hearing alternatives to bristol board, but I'm very attached to it as a medium. I visited an art store yesterday and considered art board , but I need transfer paper to use it, and it seems difficult to find board that isn't bent or stained. Still, I'd like to know if I should stick with masking fluid, find a different way to mask, or just resign myself to doing spatters in Photoshop.

~wadifahtook Jan 21, 2013

YES! This looks awesome despite masking fluid's attempt at being evil.

~RedVioletPanda Jan 20, 2013 Digital Artist

Oh, I know about bristol and masking fluids. Utterly destroyed a piece I was doing at the time and at first I thought it was because of the ink. Recently I tried using the Canson Fanboy series of marker paper, pretty good with the masking fluids, up to a point. You'll need to use markers rather than india ink if you are planning to use it, even then, use it sparingly (learned that the hard way). The marker paper itself is rather thick and can stand a lot of layer and stuff. I've also seen adhesive masks as an alternative to the latex fluids, and I'm thinking of getting it, though I've only seen it online and here: [link] . I don't know if Blick has it yet, but I'm interested in trying it out, since I am looking for an alternative to masking fluids. Don't know if it helps.

Great work on the splatter and outline design.

~Hfoursaur Jan 20, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

The only surface/medium that I have never had issues with when using alongside masking fluid is cold press watercolour paper with quite a bit of tooth, and even then my best experiences were always when I had soaked and streched the paper beforehand. My watercolour professor in college advised against using masking fluid with any surface that isn't good with water-based media. I'm sure there are other mediums out there, though! : (

*cajuncur Jan 20, 2013

Ooohhh pretty!

I definitely like your b/w stuff, like that comic with the dogs vs. wolves. Delicious contrast!

*wingsofdragons Jan 20, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

nice drawing

*wingsofdragons Jan 20, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

nice drawing

*wingsofdragons Jan 20, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

nice drawing

!neverthirst Jan 20, 2013

traditional media: Crescent illustration board (the smoothest you can find) is wonderful. Ever thought of an art projector maybe to transfer sketches???? there are different kinds so look carefully at the notes and reviews, there's a relatively cheap blue one (looks kiddie but has good reviews) on amazon. Otherwise, there's arches watercolor paper, which may take friskit well (masking fluid) or perhaps fredrix canvas paper???? (it's really nice and can be taped down too instead of having something stretched on a frame that you have to worry about warping, tearing etc.) anyway I'm just throwing ideas out there, please google and double check cause I don't use masking fluid but also want to see what fun effects you can get with it and have at least tried different papers that I can couch for being good depending on the medium (watercolor and gouache on arches = yum or watercolor with acrylic highlights I think is how I did that? I got into gouache later but I love that stuff. magenta box by "reeves" brand)

okay enough rambling....

speaking of black and white these look WAY fun: [link]

experiment experiment experiment, if you're in an art block do something new so you have no preconceived notions about how something "should" turn out.

*Furrama Jan 20, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Have you considered acrylics?

I'd personally keep to ink spattering in photoshop and hand ink everything else. I haaaaaaaate masking fluid.

*fenrirhound Jan 20, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

Masking board, digital is starting to grind on me a bit too

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