These non-repro pencils confuse me. They show up if you scan them into Photoshop, surely..? Or can you get special voodoo ones nowadays?
They show up in scans yeah. Though it is easier to isolate them from pencils or inks, their real usefulness is debatable, which is why they've pretty much disappeared from everywhere but a few online retailers. I like the way they feel and I like the way they look. I feel happier sketching out forms in continuous line, quickly and with minimal thought using them whereas pencil makes me get all anal to early on. My best pages work when I know my layouts and then just attack the page with as little other baggage as possible. Because they're nice and light, they encourage me to do that.
Loving the new Edith and Hilda strip. Found it a week or so ago and that was a nice surprise. Quite bloody impressed that it's done straight from the tablet. I just don't think of mine like that yet. It's a tool for colouring and minor touch-ups in my brain. I've tried a bit, but my inability to make a consistently good line irritates me, and makes me feel like I'm having a frying-pan spit infinite miniscule drops of boiling fat at me. So I shy away.
Suedey - I hadn't meant to neglect the thread, just got horribly caught up with work and such, and it got away from me somewhat.
Well I've only been posting pictures really, which isn't so much what the thread is about. Same reason, I've not properly e-mailed you back in a while. But I think we'll agree to both be a bit shit at that.
The non-repros I use are from Paper People, mainly because I'm a cheeky swine and they were the ones I was swiping from the studio when I first started using them. The only problem I have with them is that by nature, they're a bit waxy and they tend to clog up any pen I've used that has a fibrous tip. That's really bloody annoying. Ball tip and brush are fine though.
I have to say though man, I've seen some of them before, but I'm really loving your nature stuff there. Like a lot. There's very much feeling of a place, a time and a mood that could change at any moment. I could go on with artsy-fartsy rationalisation, but I've not been drinking free red-wine so I'll just say that they totally jump at me. They show a different aspect to you that's not in your other stuff I know (not that they should be in the other stuff. It's just I know that stuff a lot better).
Oh, and...
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