Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Hippocampe




I love drawing with a brush - While I do illustration on a long period, emptying space thinking of something else (and that's good too), with brush I just need to be very concentrated for a short time (maybe half an hour including sketch). I think it's also more alive cause of hazardous details coming.

I did this one on A3 paper after an hippocampe picture

This other one was done same way (A2 paper)


7 comments:

crippaXXXalmqvist said...

very nice drawings there, romuald.
you're good!
and yes, they got life, alright..

Gaspard Pitiot said...

I don't draw any preliminary sketch anymore which implies that I have to cut bits of paper to correct the mistakes which I really don't like. Maybe I should do. I'm a bone idle.

alkbazz said...

Thanx Crippa (well I doesn't mean that's alive, that's how I feel it during the process)

Gaspard : most of the time I sketch silhouette very quickly, just to know where I'll draw heads & stuff. Sometimes (like for hippocampe) I draw sketch on a paper and then I start painting on another paper. I rarely use correction.

Gaspard Pitiot said...

I corect because I don't have to be pleased.I probably would not make much mistakes if I had just a quick silhouette but I basically almost finish each part before going further in the scene I'm trying to draw and this way I ensure I don't know everything that may happen on the picture, the risk of failing is high, eventually the waist of time is real, and I also probably expect more relations to take place in the picture (which is often not happening) ; for example, if I have just a head I don't know how to position the body and if I still have to add an arm I don't know where to put it. That the way I drew this gray picture for example : http://gaiihin.blogspot.com/2010/05/grigri-2.html At the moment I can't do otherwise, if I follow a precise and global visual idea about what to do I loose my temper and I immediately try to escape from it by doing absurd shapes and complacently experimenting abstract, funny, trash, esthetical and extremely scornful ways to draw... and then I realize It's weak. Well, I don't draw much. I draw again. I almost didn't draw during two years.

alkbazz said...

I understand that very well, first because I can see it in your work, second because I draw like that 15-20 years ago. I do sometimes still, I like the way getting in detail without sketch could bring the forms to something strange & difformed. I cannot find example on internet but this one maybe is approaching that way http://alkbazz.free.fr/IMG/jpg/regarde.jpg & or those http://alkbazz.free.fr/spip.php?article82 - I like how faces goes wrong if you don't follow a sketch.

But, I consider like something different doing an artwork & doing an illustration for something special - here hippocampe is for a gig poster, so I need to do something clear & easy for audience (that's what guy ask), you know managing composition. Even for free artwork I often think first the shape & global composition and then I empty it with different kind of strikes/brushstrokes etc

I don't know, everything seems good to me !

Gaspard Pitiot said...

I made preliminary sketches for 99,9% of my comics. I think I sould do some for my ink drawings again. (very nice, those drawings you linked me to).

alkbazz said...

ah yours is simply wonderful, reminds me a bit of Ludovic Levasseur