Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for May 28, 2012

hey, I draw with a sharpie… They’re not bad.

Well I don’t use sharpies. At least not since the Terrel Owens sharpie thing.

The type of Sharpies I use smudge. For my Jared Comics, I draw in pencil, then outline in black gelpen or a dark black pen, then I rub out the pencil and start to colour in with gel pens. I have 72 gelpens in this big pencilcase so it’s hard thinking of the colours I should use for people’s hair, clothes, etc.

sharpies rock

Huh?

as I read these posts today, some eerie voice kept calling to me: I looked down from the screen a bit…….and there it was! A SHARPIE!! Fine point….black ink…..it lay roughly between me & the screen, wallowing in a pile of receipts & stuff. Whoa. Hey. They’re all around us!!

Note for the Natester: If you get with some of your group who can draw better than you as it is (Teddy drew Francis a hockey player once that Teddy said “looks real”, as in, not ameteurishly cartoony like: you-know-whose!! And didn’t Artur (hit the hot button again, I did!!) draw a very realistic antique car for the cartooning club once?) and get in the groove like YESTERDAY than you can learn from them and MAYBE by the time you need to do things like pay rent & buy your own food, keep up with a car note. etc. you’ll be good enough to accomplish these things on a “successful” cartoonist’s take-home pay. Oh Nate….must you live in a haze forever?? No Haw here, either….cheers!!

Illustrators analogue to good carpentry rule of “measure twice and saw once”: draw initially using 4H with 2″ × 1″ Staedtler eraser always within reach, when you’re almost ready to ink switch to HB—and only when you have a satisfactory drawing in HB, finally ink.

It looks to me Nate is trying to ink from get-go—bad idea!

Brand new ones are pointy, old ones are flat

He does have a point Nate.

Sharpies are only O.K. to use if you’re making large drawings on card stock paper. If large drawings have a thin outline to them, it makes them look shaky and weird.

And don’t forget to put something under the sheet of paper before drawing with a sharpie, (example: old sheet of scrap paper you don’t plan on using) or otherwise it will just bleed onto something.

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