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  2009

  Nov 6
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  Nikira

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  Sketch of Inna. I used ArtPen Rotring, filled ink converter with J.Herbin ink. May be I should try to color it in Photoshop?
  tags: ink | pocket moleskine | sepia | sketch
   

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  trebor61 8:04 am on November 6, 2009 | #

  Lovely work, Nikira. Do you have details of this type of ink? I always find, when I load up my Rotring pens with coloured inks they clog up.

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  bjax 8:14 am on November 6, 2009 | #

  Beautiful, direct, spontanteous. I really admire people who can draw this way. Have fun coloring it in Photoshop, but I sort of feel that it cheapens the result (and it’s what I do for a living!).

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  ziza 8:36 am on November 6, 2009 | #

  Nice one!
  Bob, why don’t you use Rotring coloured ink? It shouldn’t clog!

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  ziza 9:18 am on November 6, 2009 | #

  Nikira, by all means colour it in Photoshop, but only if you have Bijou toolbar available there…
  However I tend to agree with Bjax about cheapening the result, but there’s no harm in it since original in the Moly remains the same!

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  roseindigo 12:19 pm on November 6, 2009 | #

  I’d like to see the results both ways, in Photoshop and with the Bijou. But it’s also a lovely portrait of a lovely young woman just as it is.

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  Nikira 10:47 pm on November 6, 2009 | #

  Thank you.
  @Bob, it is my first time I used converter, I always used cartridges with ArtPen. I love browns, sepia ink. Which one is safe for Rotring?
  @Ziza, never saw Rotring bottle of ink.
  @bjax, please, can you give me quick advise how to color in photoshop, just a schema?

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  andrew spanoudakis 8:08 am on November 7, 2009 | #

  Nikira… wonderful spontaneous feel to the drawing, agree with Bjax. And thank you Bob and Ziza… now I need to look up Bijou and Rotring. Please post the psd version , if you do it.

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  Nikira 9:05 am on November 7, 2009 | #

  @Andrew
  Look into forums,I started new topic about Art materials, i’ll post more info after I come back.

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  bjax 4:56 pm on November 7, 2009 | #

  very briefly, make a new layer with blending set to darken. This protects the original scan. Beg borrow or steal the use of a Wacom tablet. Play with the different brushes and get into the options of the brush palette for different effects… just have fun and experiment!

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  Nikira 7:08 am on November 8, 2009 | #

  Thank you Bjax. I got the Wacom and even Painter 11. tried to add some color yesterday. look http://nikiraart.blogspot.com/2009/11/scarfgreen.html
  I have hard time to blend. I used opacity to make it softer. Palette of colors is stiff and too plain compare to real palette.

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