sketches in red

The sketching in red continues, this pencil that I'm using is wonderful and I like it a lot!

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New chapter and sketches in red...!

I thumbnailed this chapter when the last chapter took a short break, between clean up and inking. So the thumbnailing of chapter 5 is done! Yesterday I enlarged the sketches with a red pencil, and that is also done! What I'm up to at the moment is to give the red sketches another pass, and thus beginning the clean up, so in a manner of speaking the clean up is begun! When I thumbnailed it I found out that this chapter will be a tad longer, actually the longest yet!

Since my last mistake of using an unerasable blue pencil, this time I'm using a pencil that is much more erasable and since I like to have the ability to erase parts of my drawings, I like this one. It's a Prismacolor Col-Erase tuscan red. It might be hard to find but if you see it, try it out! I can truly recommend it.
The only fault with it is that it's not a mechanical pencil... But I'm such a mechanical pencil-guy, as I've probably written before, it's so easy and fast, just to click the pencil and you can continue to draw instead of finding that sharpener and use it and then go back to where your were and continue and a few minutes later finding that sharpener again and so on, and so on. Boy is this an industrial state problem or what...!?

As I've written above, I'm going over the red penciled pages ones more, and why do I do that? Well, I'm doing that to lighten the burden of the clean up, I find the clean up to be a bit tedious, if I'm not in a clean up groove off course... a couple of chapters ago I found out that if I make quite detailed red- or blue sketches, the clean up goes much more smoothly. And it also gets me to work the pages more, to give them another look. The first pass is very loose and the second pass is more detailed, see below. So what's left is just to go over them ones more, with a mechanical pencil(!), and work out the quirks!

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Chapter 4 is done!

Yep! It's true, the chapter is finally done! Have a look!

http://www.pilgrimserien.blogspot.se/

At the moment we are more than halfway through the storyline. If my memory serves me right I wrote something like, it would only take a month to do this chapter... You might say that I jinxed it, big time... so therefore I won't write when the next chapter will be done, but I will continue to write about the progress here on the blog!

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Inking done?

Yesterday I finished inking the pages, today I'm going to have a second look at them to see what I've missed. I'm quite surprised how the inking, that used to be so hard before, now goes swimmingly. Granted off course that I'm not a fancy inker, my inking style is what you would call, the style of tracing. To quote the film Chasing Amy (I think).

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Erasing blue sketches...or not?

The clean up is proceeding nicely, as I've written before the blue pencil that I used for this chapter is very hard to erase. It really sticks, we're talking about ink-stickiness here. I'm not kidding! If I run out of ink or inkpens I can use this blue pencil with the same result!

Here it is in all it's glory:

I'm not saying that it is a bad pencil, I think it has many qualities, but if you are a draughtsman that sometimes fancy using your eraser from time to time, then maybe this pencil is not for you. On the other hand if you are an artist that very seldom use your eraser, then this pencil is for you!

Take care!