Sunday, March 6, 2022

Original Art Sundays No. 293: Sharp Invitations: Curt, p.31

 Here we go with a new page.

When we left our heroine, Curt was being nice. Who's taking odds on that continuing?

Notes:

This shows the emotional turmoil of being with an abuser. Here it's taking its toll. Things are all right, then they're not, for no apparent reason, and you're told it's your fault. We had one good night after I failed to have myself committed, then it got worse again almost immediately. Trans issues appear on this page as a matter of course.

There are 3 actions on this page. He leaves without a reason. I look out into the rain. I arrive at a conclusion. We'll see the result next week.

Layout considerations: still loving the ink wash for backgrounds and flexing my muscles, using it as a rain device. The head shot coming out of silhouette in the text heavy panel has just a hint of dry brush work, something else I love to play with.

This will need to be rescanned. For the moment, it serves. I need to get some pages together and spend a day rescanning, possibly over spring break next week.

We'll see. I treated myself to a new brush this week, and I'm pretty pleased with it!

Tools:

  • Canson Bristol Board
  • Lead holder and #3B leads
  • Ticonderoga 2B pencil
  • Tech pencil
  • Kneadable eraser and Faber Castell dust free eraser
  • Nib and holder
  • Brushes: Blick 6 round synthetic, Richeson 777 Kolinsky (the new one!), beat up ancient Grumbacher no. 4, tight spot for corrections
  • Micron Numbers .02, .03, .05, .08 and brush tip
  • FW Artists Acrylic White and Dr. Martin's Black Star Matte Ink

Next: Things get bad, really bad. Sorry, but they do.