#used india inks for this one!

[inkz123]

A random fox guy character! I have no idea what his name is wahaha-

#my art stuff #used india inks for this one! #i wish colored inks were so much more available here #jarred acrylic alcohol or india inks #u can make so much shades with just a small set of 12 colors #vs getting like dozens or even hundreds of markers for example #tho markers have the convenience of less potential mess with water and brushes #travelling around with so much markers vs a couple small sealed vials of ink #its much easier to bring around that way haha #aahh im rambling😅😅😅 #uhhh #traditional #my oc art #sorta? #maybe hmm hmm

[theokusgallery]

I'll scan this better tomorrow if I remember to do so, but it looks good, so you get that version now

#couldnt sleep so i did some watercolors #made with one of those fancy pens you dip in chinese/india ink ! #i hadnt used it in YEARS #im really happy with the face for once #omori #drawing #art #arsenic #traditonal #omori basil #watercolor

[naranj1ta]

The ink and colored pencil version of the Raturine panel of my comic is complete and I'm SO HYPED TO CLEAN IT UP AND MAKE IT LOOK PRETTY ON PROCREATE

Belatedly realized I don't want to stream tomorrow bc I want to watch the VAs pull for Aventurine lol so I'm actually gonna stream the actual comic process TODAY (April 16th) at 4PM CT as a pre-aventurine release good luck ritual at https://www.twitch.tv/naranjita_sumo

#fanart #honkai star rail #hsr #raturine #dr ratio #aventurine #this is India ink and prismacolors ! I'd been using poscas bc it's more control but I'm loving the smoothness of the black on this #ive been informed that people use #aventio #as their ship tag #raturine still number one to ME

[jules-of-the-sea]

hiya everypony! i drew zagreus a few days ago and thought it was pretty good! have a nice day!

#zagreus #hades game #stuff i drew #<- this is my art tag now #fuck you i make the rules around here #and that’s the rules #i used dip pens and india inks on this isn’t that cool #and a white gel pen i suppose #also a brush for some of the washes i suppose #skin hair clothes background etcetera #the ush #oh right i still haven’t beaten elysium 😔 #one day i will #soon.

[in---earnest]

What For?

I study. I study for my future. I study for my parents. For myself.

I study. And I study decently well. I work hard. And I bear the fruits of it.

I study. And I read. And I sketch and write and work and apply and am rejected and apply again. And what is it for?

It’s not for my parents. It’s sort of for me. But it’s mostly for my future.

I have a fantasy. It is not realistic, as most fantasies are. But oh, I have a fantasy, and it is one that I will be punished for voicing.

I fantasise that one day I will meet a girl. A girl with honest eyes, a girl with a genuine smile. Whose hair I could run my hands through. Whose waist I could put my arm around. Whose weight I could sink into. Whose words I could wrap around me, a comforting weight.

My fantasy is simple. To be somewhere, somewhere, somewhere I can say I love a girl and know I can have a future with her. Somewhere, somehow, sometime, I can spend my life with her. Or a few months. Or a few years. The luxury of loving who I want to love. Is that such a terrible amount to ask?

Why do you demonise me? Why do you tell me I should be grateful? Should I be fucking grateful that I have told all of five people and only two have kept my dignity? Should I be fucking grateful that I’m not a criminal as of five years ago? Should I fall to my knees and pathetically plead for you to give me rights, give me respect, give me a promise?

Give me a promise; one that you won’t break, won’t go back on, won’t consider unreasonable?

I must fight to exist! I am told that my living body is enough of a blessing, when I can never breathe a word of my desires. I am told my alternatives are some sort of concession on your part.

What harm am I doing to your precious democracy, your caricature of diversity, your farce of a progressive agenda? What harm does it do to you, every minute I die inside because I know I may likely marry someone I will never want to touch.

What is it? Tell me.

What does it feel like?

Is it a knife in your back, poison in your veins, a slit through your throat? Because you know as well as I do, your sadism knows no bounds. My people. Your people. The people who have turned and will turn on you. They met their ends the very same way, correct? You let them meet their ends in the very same way.

You acknowledge our existence only to call us a problem. A box of knickknacks in your attic. They’ll look nice on display, don’t you think? Oh dear, they’re so dirty with dust, coated with cobwebs, disgusting, disgusting, disgusting. A problem for another day, don’t you think? A problem for another lifetime.

Oh yes, you think i’m a problem. Of course, you think i’m a problem.

#i live in conservative india and im bi-romantic that's all there is to say about that #spilled ink #writing #poetry #queer #bisexual #writeblr #lqbtq #guys it sucks so much i have my finals. my BOARDS. and they're going pretty damn well #but the knowledge that im not even motivated by my future studies i just want to live somewhere i can be safe #that's so concerning and kind of dystopic to me #i hate it so much. the way the politicians talk about us #one of them called us “filth” like last week #man im not even hindu but even i know the very gods you worship fit our modern understanding of lgbtq+ #like give me break #stop telling me that i should be grateful I won't be taken to prison for liking a woman #i deserve the space i take up as much as the next person #stop telling us otherwise

[pansyfemme]

contreversial art supply opinion but i genuinly hate how popular fineliners are as inking tools when there are so many options out there. also. i think micron is a vastly overated brand. theyre ok? but the ink quality always gets me its so. faded and kind of shiny? the colored ones r ok but the black ones… once u compare them to jet black ink fineliners like the neopiko ones theres rlly no going back

#neopiko also has the perfect tip range imo #i will say. i love the micron graphic ones bc its sometimes hard to find decent chisel nib inkers #but yeah. i use fineliners occasionally? but i just think theyre overused when other inking tools arent any more expensive #a bottle of india ink and a brush will last you a looooong time and you will learn so much abt control and variation that the ultracontroled #line of a fineliner just cant do. i use them occasionally for details but i prefer not too bc i just think monolines look. a little boring #tbh…. #i HAVE seen good inking with fineliners and i envy it always but i just think you really need to lean into the tool if u use it and i dont #see that being done always. dont ever take ur mediums for granted- learn their strengths! #the ultracontrol of a fineliner can be really excellent but that same preciseness can sometimes backfire

[sofarsogoodsowhat]

sorry if i'm wrong but i've heard india ink isn't safe to use?

no you’re probably right it’s way safer to like be normal about it and either use actual tattoo ink or get shit done by someone that knows what they’re doing but i mean i haven’t had any issues with it

#i gave myself like 40something stick n pokes with india ink and the only time i ever even thought one was infected it ended up being fine so #like. idk! it’s safe ENOUGH that id use it on myself or like a friend that doesn’t care as much but i wouldnt use it on like someone who’s #paying for it or someone who thinks their body would react weird yknow #it’s good enough for starting out/when you can’t afford professional shit that’s the whole reason i did it #MAN I FUCKIN #DID THAT SHIT WHERE YOU SPLIT OPEN A PEN AND SQUEEZE THE INK OUTTA THE THING #IT WAS AN INDIA INK PEN BUT STILL

[bmpmp3]

these ocs are really developed for ocs who don’t have names KJFLDSJHKDL

my witch woman and her friend from work~ she doesnt have a lot of friends ‘cause she has trouble expressing her emotions but these two ended up in a cubicle together and her coworker doesn’t mind talking about different species of frogs with her so they’re pals

#art #ocs #oc art #traditional art #watercolour #i desperately need to name these guys. witch woman. coworker. the cat man. all NAMELESS #because im a cruel cruel oc creator.....developing everything but leaving them all unnamed hjkfdldfhKSDLS #also unrelated but i recently had to get some new india ink cause my old bottle finally gave out #(it was nearly 8 years old and only had a few mls left so one day i opened it and it was completely separated and dried out RIP) #and like so i used to use speedball india ink all the time but then switched to kuretake because the speedball bottle is evil #(it WILL mysteriously splatter ink everywhere while also drying the cap to the body) #and like i think those inks are basically super comparable like straight up almost the same #(its india ink so i mean. theres not much to mess up there BUT i have had some really shitty india inks before!!) #(hated the demco stuff cause it didn't flow well on dip pens (too slippery?) and both demco and higgins was too gray) #(i need my india ink to be BLACK like WHY would i want dark gray india ink when i can get the same dark gray from markers) #(i use dip pens and india ink BECAUSE i want the waterproof darkness only carbon water and shellac can provide hejfdkslflhjfkdls) #but now that my kuretake ran out and buying it rn would be super hard (i was very lucky and was able to get it for like 9 bucks years ago) #(but now i'd have to pay like thrice the price and wait super long orz) so i went back to speedball despite their wretched bottles #and now that im using it again after so long using kuretake i am noticing some interesting subtle differences #like i said theyre both just as good. speedballs bottle sucks. kuretake is a bit thick sometimes. pros and cons lol #but interestingly i forgot about how speedball dries so like. convex? like they both dry shiny (thats da shellac baby!!!!) but kuretake goes #like pretty flat? while speedball feels more raised and ever so slightly more shiny? ive also noticed the watercolor like slides off it #maybe speedball has way more shellac? its not bad its actually kinda nice. bottle still sucks tho. hopefuly i can transfer it to another LOL #anyway this has been. impromptu ink reviews with your host bmpmp3 thank u and goodnight

[notwhelmedyet]

A Fire Shall Be Woken, by Ealcynn. A pair of bindings using the K118 structure, one as a gift for the author and one to keep.

Chapter page illustrations are by Alphonse Mucha, all other illustrations are hand-drawn.

I hope to make a long post later explaining the process in more depth & another to document all my mistakes, but here's the basics.

New techniques learned: Paper marbling, edge marbling, uncial calligraphy, making paste papers, drawing on bookcloth, making paste-filled cloth, fold-out maps

I began work on this project in early September and am completing the finishing touches this week.

Structures:

Binding: K118 tightback

Endpapers: Simple cloth-joined endpapers

Map fold: Turkish map fold

Materials:

Sewing supports: linen tapes

Thread: 30/3 linen thread

Spine lining: Medium weight kozo tissue bonded to linen fabric

Interior paper: Hammermill Ivory, 11x17, hand-cut to 8.5x11

Endpapers: Blick sulphite paper hand-marbled, with masked stenciled silhouettes created with freezer paper

Adhesives: Jade PVA, wheat starch paste, wheat flour paste

Covers: Davey board, laminated full thickness to half thickness

Cover fabric: Studio E shot cottons in Jungle and Emerald; filled with wheat starch paste

Cover decorations: Speedball india ink and Dr. Ph. Martin's calligraphy ink in Copperplate Gold

Inks for maps and illustrations: Speedball black india ink and a selection of watercolors thickened with gum arabic

Dip pens used for calligraphy: Combination of Brause calligraphy nibs and Leonardt tape nibs

Dip pens used for illustration: Nikko G pointed pen nib

Typesetting:

Typesetting program: Scribus 1.5.5

Body font: Coelacanth in 10 pt caption weight

Headings, titles, chapter titles, drop caps: Hand lettered uncial calligraphy, scanned

Illustrations and References:

Frames on colophon, copyright, author's notes and title page: Hand drawn, with inspiration taken from the vellucent bindings of Cedric Chivers

Frames that illustrate each chapter start: Alphonse Mucha from Cloches de Noël et de Pâques

Cover illustrations: Referenced from a photograph of an European beech tree found on iNaturalist.org

Maps of Imladris: Hand drafted with inspiration from the maps of Barbara Strachey, and Daniel Reeve

Map of Eriador: Traced from a map by Karen Wynn Fonstad, with edits made to coordinate with the geography of the fic

Frames on maps: Referenced from a drawing by Alphonse Mucha that @zhalfirin found for me

Special Thank Yous:

To the tightback council of problem-solvers in the Renegade server: Zhalfirin, Eka, @spockandawe who helped figure out many issues with the structure and technique

To the marbling experts in the Renegade server: Marissa, Aether, AGlance, Jenny, Catz, Badgertide, Rhi, and everyone else who helped me figure out beginnner marbling

To Spock for finding the K118 structure and introducing it to the server!

And to Bruce Levy, who discovered the method and shared his discoveries freely with the bookbinding and conservation world.

#bookbinding #Fanbinding #mine #bookbinding adventures #thank you to everyone i consider this a group effort #it has been 10000 years and I have loved every step #except for sanding. nasty nasty sanding. ew. #fic recs

[helenmask]

I had someone ask on Bluesky how I work, so I thought I’d share this here too. I sketching (and shade) in graphite, ink with microns, (for large areas of black I use India ink) all of this is done on smooth Bristol (because I am rough with paper) then I scan everything and color digitally. Coloring digitally allows me to do different color versions. I sometimes make the entire image on one piece of paper but if I plan to mirror, or adjust anything (or animate) I work in sections.

#art nouveau #helen mask #alphonse mucha

[bailsebub]

Diamonds in the trees / Pentagrams in the night sky

Switched up the style a little bit for this one, but the Sleep Token lyrics drawings continue! This was fun but I think I’m gonna go back to the more minimal/linocut inspired style I’ve been using for the others.

Materials - dip pen with black india ink + red and gold acrylic ink, white gel pen, micron pen, marker, digital editing to invert text and background

[Other drawings in this series - TMBTE • Jaws • Gods]

#sleep token #sleep token fanart #illustration #traditional illustration #pen and ink #sleep token vessel #blood tw #gore tw #manifesting formalwear vessel manifesting formalwear vessel #st lyrics series

[inkz123]

Painting with sum digital edits. OC's name is Altair, owned by @fraternityofart!💕💕💕

#not my oc #traditional #j figured how to place watercolor paper texture so it looks even haha #galaxy hairrr #painting galaxies is so fun #used india inks for this one #and some white ink

[focsle]

have you written anything about tattoos? is that relevant? don't know how your niche lines up with generic "sailor" tradition, but wikipedia simply says on knuckle tats that deckhands may get "HOLD / FAST" as a charm to support their grip on rigging, and i thought that was kind of cute.

I haven't written anything myself, mostly cos if you throw a stick out in the internet you'll find any number of articles about the symbolism of sailor tattoos, like hold fast and pigs and roosters and swallows and all that!

In my narrow window (the middle decades of the 19th century), I don't see tattoos mentioned all too often, compared to late 19th and throughout the 20th century where they became more common. For instance, this register of seaman's protection certificates (which are admittedly limited in the scope of things, since they're only from a few specific ports) from 1796-1871 rarely list tattoos as distinguishing marks, beyond the odd mention of being marked with an inked anchor, eagle, or letters here or there. Here's a neat jstor article (if you have any more of your 100 free monthly articles to read with a google account) that goes into late 18th-early 19th c tattoos that has some tables and visuals. The research was also done using seaman's protection certificates, with the following stat:

"The SPC-A records start in 1796 and include tattooed men born as early as 1746. There were 979 tattooed men out of a total of 9,772 men whose records survive from 1796 through 1818.26 These men were marked with a total of about 2,354 separate designs."

So, not a large number, but also 10% isn't insignificant. The protection certificates while a reliable source, also only describe the man in one specific moment. I'm sure a few of those men who just have their moles and scars and crooked fingers listed eventually picked up a tattoo or two in their time. Most journal keepers perhaps didn't think it important to mention who had tattoos or what of, though the typical motifs of anchors, nautical stars, girls, religious & patriotic imagery, etc. were certainly a part of the visual language at this point. Whaler William Abbe who sailed in the 1850s, devoted considerable attention to describing the physical appearance of some of his shipmates. In one instance, he wrote about the tattoos of one 'Johnny Come Lately' or 'Jack Marlinspike' (Real name, John Hewes of Buffalo NY)

'from beneath this cap his face looms out - while beneath supporting his comical head is a bare neck and breast — hairy + brown —the upper timbers to a stout hull of a boat that boast a pair of arms all covered with India ink tattooings — the figure of American Liberty — Christ on the cross — an American Tar holding a star spangled banner in one hand + a coil of rope in the other — a fancy girl — + anchors, rings, crosses, knots, stars all over his wrists + hands — the memorials of different ports he has visited — for Jack has been in all kinds of vessels from a man of war to a blubber hunter — + has consequently been to many ports.'

From the logbook of another whaler who sailed in the early 1840s, James Moore Ritchie, he had a page of his drawings with prices included. This potentially may have been a tattoo flash sheet for his shipmates:

American whalers also noted the tattoos of indigenous people who had signed on to whaling vessels, particularly in the South Pacific. William B. Whitecar, whaling in the 1850s wrote: "Several New Zealanders in the respective crews of these vessels attracted my attention from the tattooing on their bodies" making mention of "figures on their face and breast".

I'm too sleepy to have a conclusion lol. Tattoos! They existed! Though perhaps not as ubiquitously as the pop culture sailor designs would imply, at least prior to the late 19th c.

#asks #anonymous #awhalin

[allgremlinart]

obsessed with your art! would you ever do a brushes reveal :3

A) THANK YOU.. 💚 B) totally 😎 I use Clip Studio Paint, and to preface this I have the OLD(ish) version of CSP from when it was purchasable with one payment instead of monthly like it is now - I don't have to pay for it monthly so long as I don't update it or use any brushes downloaded from other artists/wherever, so idk if my brushes would be different from someone else's or if they're the same... BUT

Dry India Ink I usually use for my lineart, lettering and sometimes coloring

Watery India Ink I use for shading, thumbnails, rough/under layer outlines, and occasionally lineart. usually I like digital brushes because they are dissimilar from traditional art tools (read: can do shit they cant) but this is the one overlap where... I actually love India ink washes for traditional art too lol. my best friend...

Oil Paint I use for almost all of my coloring/rendering to like the point where I need to branch out more... also occasionally thumbnails

Honorable Mentions are the Textured Blender and the Kneaded Eraser

this is probably an annoying amount of detail but like whatever. now you too know what brushes this amateur nebulously employed hobbyist illustrator uses. and with the power of love you can do anything with them

#allgremlinasks #csp

[meandtheyeehaws]

Now.

Let me ask you something.

HOW IS YOUR ART STYLE THAT GOOD?!

IT'S JUST AMAZING.

Uh... Another question, if I can ask...

What kind of digital brush do you use for lineart? It's like an alcohol marker and a pencil? Please, I'm looking for a good brush from months and I can't find one, but you have every right to keep your secret! :)

Anyway, amazing drawings girl! Thank you! And sorry for bad grammar.

TYSM!! i use the Bit Husky India Ink brush on clip studio paint pro for lineart! :]

#asks

[jamieprimack]

Ibuki Mioda, the Ultimate Musician, is now the 9th illustration I’ve completed in the gold-painted Danganronpa art series I’ve been running on TikTok. Drawing a guitar was kinda intimidating, but I still had a lot of fun with this one <3

Materials used: India ink, micron pens, fineliner pens, Pentel brush pen, watercolor brush pens, acrylic paint pens, and metallic gold paint pens on Bristol paper

#ibuki mioda #mioda ibuki #danganronpa #Danganronpa 2 #danganronpa 2 goodbye despair #danganronpa ibuki #ibuki danganronpa #Ibuki Mioda fanart #Danganronpa fanart #art #artist #artist on tumblr #illustration #mixed media #mixed media art #watercolor #watercolors #watercolor art