{"id":44509,"date":"2025-01-27T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=44509"},"modified":"2025-01-28T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:27:27","slug":"finishing-something-i-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/01\/27\/finishing-something-i-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing something I started…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…a long, long time ago.
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Over this Christmas just past, I inked in a pencil drawing<\/a> I drew sometime in the mid-1980s. I found a variation (pictured above) of that drawing which I penciled in 1986. I’m not sure why I did it back then, but it was sitting in my flat file cabinet just the same and was begging for some ink. I started inking this on the heels of finishing my previous version, but I put it aside for a little while in order to fiddle with logos.<\/p>\n

My aim was to turn this 14 inch by 17 inch work into a comic book cover or a poster so it needed a logo. I wanted it to be hand drawn and have an underground comic sort of look. I had fun sketching and re-sketching variations in my sketchbooks. Some of them were worked on digitally figuring I would marry all of the elements together in an electronic composite.<\/p>\n

\"Try <\/a>
Try at a logo in sketchbook <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Teenage <\/a>
Teenage Beast logo sketch <\/div> <\/div>
\"Teenage <\/a>
Teenage Beast logo sketch <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Teenage <\/a>
Teenage Beast logo sketch <\/div> <\/div>
\"Black <\/a> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Original\" <\/a>
Original <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Ultimately, I abandoned my new drawings and ended up using the logo I created with cutout newspaper letters<\/a> around the same time as I penciled the drawing. I traced the logo onto my drawing with transfer paper and inked it by hand.<\/p>\n

I did sort of like this one although I inked the final in solid.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure what originally prompted my drawing of this variation on The Goo Goo Muck<\/em>, but I suspect it was in order to put off finishing the first one. Procrastination is a curse! The two drawings sat in storage for decades until I got the gumption to throw some ink at the first drawing. I used my new Sailor Fude de Mannen<\/em> fountain pen which made the inking process a delightful experience. Maybe if I had that tool earlier, I would have finished it a whole lot sooner. Who knows?<\/p>\n

Now that I am thinking about this, I had made these two drawings before I started working in art supply stores where my true education in media and techniques started. When I made these drawings, I was a freshly minted art school graduate, and my instincts as a starving art student directed me to the cheapest art materials on the shelves. It was a false thrift in that it didn’t do my work any favors. I know it’s a poor craftsman who blames the quality of his work upon his tools, but I think I was using brushes with hairs sourced from roadkill. They didn’t lend themselves to inking as cleanly and carefully as I hoped. I would certainly ruin my “masterpiece.”<\/p>\n

Similarly, I went cheap with the media I worked upon. I must have done both of these monster drawings on a student grade Bristol board. It’s turning yellow despite being shut away from the elements for years. Take a look at the image below. My drawing sits atop a newer piece of Bristol board. I got what I paid for.<\/p>\n

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Despite the paper aging badly, I did like how my pens flowed over the smooth surface. I had fun inking this drawing, and I plan on working on more.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned!\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…a long, long time ago. Over this Christmas just past, I inked in a pencil drawing I drew sometime in the mid-1980s. I found a variation (pictured above) of that drawing which I penciled in 1986. 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