Strength of Twenty Men - ink wash
Strength of Twenty Men
ink wash on watercolor paper, 4/11/08
When I reduced the pen and ink version of this drawing in size, the linework became difficult to read. I admit, I’m still trying to figure out the optimal rendering technique with pen and ink when working at smaller sizes, say 3″ x 5″. Obviously the 19th and early 20th century illustrators mastered this, so I probably just need to study up on them some more.
Here’s an ink wash instead. I really like the way the inks look as a color scan, so, even though they’ll be printed in grayscale, I’m going to post them here in color.
I haven’t done this in awhile, so let me know what you think. Thanks!
I like this even better than the pen and ink. There’s a beautiful quality to your painting style. A smoothness like butter. I like the paleness of the background contrasting with the strong foreground.
Like butter? Barbara Streisand-like butter? Thanks, Angela. Real-life painting is fun, refreshingly so over digital. I’m beginning to understand the excitement you had when you got out the gouache again.