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It's Mario! But what devastatingly interesting piece of trivia am I about to reveal about this particular Mario, you might well be asking yourself. Here it is:

This wasn't supposed to happen. I was just doing some sketching after a bit of a New Super Mario Bros. session and I did a quite rough sketch of Mario in light blue pencil, as is my wont. I then went over it in normal pencil with in mind scanning it and maybe splashing some colour on. You can find that original sketch in my scraps folder, or gallery, or whatever it is.

But then as I was sitting looking at it on the computer today I had a sudden funny idea. Do you like the inking on this one? I think it looks all snazzy being inked in colour like that, and doesn't really stand out as being any more badly inked than my usual drawings. And that's significant because I expected it would.

For you see, the way I draw things is I pencil them in light blue first, and then usually ink or neat-pencil right over the top of that. I'm rubbish at tracing on another sheet, especially since the glass of our home made light box is currently cracked clean in two after Abby drew some Nemesis Fleet a little too carefully. So as you can see I require the light blue mechanical pencil to draw at all, because it doesn't show up on the scanner when you scan in sheer black & white, so I can ink right over the top and face no problems later.

Except I didn't anticipate the discontinuation of the pencil. Now I can't buy any more leads, and my supplies (while still rather generous) will run out one day. I've recently been worrying about what I'll do when that day comes. It seemed for a while to be the death knell of my ability to draw and a solution was frantically sought. But no longer! This Mario drawing represents the turning point from whence I can relax, safe in the knowledge that there is Another Way.

This picture is inked entirely digitally, in Photoshop. It took me about as long to do as it would to ink normally, using exactly the same techniques, except now there's an undo button and a pixel-perfect eraser. The answer has finally come! There will come a day when the blue lead runs out, but then I can just pencil in black and ink digitally. It is the future!!

Mario is ushering in the future with his fire flower and his pudgy face. I like Mario.

Description
It's Mario! But what devastatingly interesting piece of trivia am I about to reveal about this particular Mario, you might well be asking yourself. Here it is:

This wasn't supposed to happen. I was just doing some sketching after a bit of a New Super Mario Bros. session and I did a quite rough sketch of Mario in light blue pencil, as is my wont. I then went over it in normal pencil with in mind scanning it and maybe splashing some colour on. You can find that original sketch in my scraps folder, or gallery, or whatever it is.

But then as I was sitting looking at it on the computer today I had a sudden funny idea. Do you like the inking on this one? I think it looks all snazzy being inked in colour like that, and doesn't really stand out as being any more badly inked than my usual drawings. And that's significant because I expected it would.

For you see, the way I draw things is I pencil them in light blue first, and then usually ink or neat-pencil right over the top of that. I'm rubbish at tracing on another sheet, especially since the glass of our home made light box is currently cracked clean in two after Abby drew some Nemesis Fleet a little too carefully. So as you can see I require the light blue mechanical pencil to draw at all, because it doesn't show up on the scanner when you scan in sheer black & white, so I can ink right over the top and face no problems later.

Except I didn't anticipate the discontinuation of the pencil. Now I can't buy any more leads, and my supplies (while still rather generous) will run out one day. I've recently been worrying about what I'll do when that day comes. It seemed for a while to be the death knell of my ability to draw and a solution was frantically sought. But no longer! This Mario drawing represents the turning point from whence I can relax, safe in the knowledge that there is Another Way.

This picture is inked entirely digitally, in Photoshop. It took me about as long to do as it would to ink normally, using exactly the same techniques, except now there's an undo button and a pixel-perfect eraser. The answer has finally come! There will come a day when the blue lead runs out, but then I can just pencil in black and ink digitally. It is the future!!

Mario is ushering in the future with his fire flower and his pudgy face. I like Mario.