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Published: 2004-07-04 08:40:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 248; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 25
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So this is how my Betty Page pic turned out. I am happy cause it doesn't suck. She nay be happy with this. I will probably scan a better version later but didn't want to assemble files right now. All your missing is that the glow around her trails off to the bottom left to imply she's flying from there.Related content
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I love Mr. Spooky. My boyfriend owns one
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oh! haha I didn't realise until now that you comented on my picture 
anyway thank you
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that'l be my next picture who would win in a fight Betty Page dressed as a fairy vs an aligator in a tutu!
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I'd say Ed Asner in a Mickey Mouse hat (and nothing else) would win that tussle...
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WOO!
I like it.
Legs, wings and dress..especially!
Cool, Vic. Nice. This is pen as in..black Bic?
Heather
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I remember, years ago, buying a few of these steel tipped, with some kind of stiff nibbed pens. I bet you mean those.
The thing I found--maybe this was early days; before all these pen marker things went nuts--was I couldn't hold the pen at a normal pencil angle to get it to stroke the way I wanted. Do you have that problem.
Now. Me using a Bic pen, Vic, is about as odd as me starting my writing gig with poems--I was notorious for not reading poems and I used mechanical pencils, if anything, for sketching.
The idea of using a pen--which I couldn't erase--seemed alien to me.
And yet (and I guess, again, this is due to my attitude about sketching right now; I just seem to go at it like a cat clawing on a carpet) I just draw these images..IN PEN..without a thot.
Weird, huh? As the last time I pursued any kind of drawing, I'd do tedious sketches of movie stars, which took hours. And I got real bored of that.
I like this 'sketch' mode I do. Even when I fill in the form like I did, with, say that, Neven character.
Can you angle these pens, Vic? Just like I do with my Bic? I use the Bic Clic ones. Bright plastic colors. Hard to find, these days. I found a bunch at Tiger Brand. Will have to go in search of more--or refills, eventually. Heh.
And I scan them in, blue. I could turn them black, in Photoshop. But I sorta like the way the blue looks, right now. You know?
Oh and what all do you need to know to be a colorist, Vic? I was trying to suggest colorist work to someone (I forget who, now). Tell me, in specifics, what all you do, for these colorist jobs.
And hey, Vic. What percentage of places still use trad art for comics? I was sussing out the Affinity Press forums (which seem real bogged down, that place, in some problems--dunno if that job will sort itself out or what--it was an unpaid one. I was trying it for job experience. Will see what happens) ) But I sense they don't do digicomics, they just do trad ones.
Tell me more about that, would you?
And I thot to note you this, but hey, do a tutorial on colorists, huh? Heh.
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Faber-Castle Ecco Pigment 0.8,0.5,0.2 and 0.1 that's refering to the tip width. I used the smallest ones most the only time I used the 0.8 was for the middle bits of the boots so I wouldn't have to spend as much time filling in all the black. Ian bought them for me I hear they cost about 3 bucks each.
Thanks very much I love using these fine tipped pens i allwayse feel weird when using pen because I can't put the fine detail in that I can with pencil and didn't actually know 0.1 nibs existed in an affordable variety
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That's some quality textured shading! The boots are especially fine — I'll have to try the shine effect out for myself...
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thanks!
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It's a highly effective technique, and all the better considering it wasn't planned!
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