“I know nothing stays the same”
Decided to give paper and ink another turn. And this time it’s taken. Drawn a bunch of pages, I still haven’t got the full measure of my tools yet (and many of them were packed away two years ago when I moved and they haven’t come out of their packaging) but it’s nice to be drawing on paper again.
I had felt somewhat stagnant on the digital front, largely I knew the tricks I needed to get the results I wanted and that’s what I did, but it didn’t feel like there was any forward movement (plus as I’ve said many times, if you do a good page digitally you really miss having the thing in your hands, a print out isn’t the same at all)
I don’t know how long this return to paper will last, and honestly it’s been maybe six years since I last bought supplies (I would always over buy – 20 blocks of A3 paper, I think was my last purchase) and I suspect the prices of much that stuff has doubled or tripled in the time, so my first time buying new supplies is going to be very painful.
BUT the range of marks you can get – I was doing explosions using a dry brush and dabbing tissue paper on the page – means you’re constantly getting nice new accidental effects.
Feeling freshly in love with drawing. Which is nice.