Pen and ink on scratchboard was my favorite medium when I was 13 years old, and here's a drawing that I had a lot of fun with, a young ape raising a toast in a Renaissance court.
For those who aren't familiar with scratchboard, it has a clay-coated surface that lets you scratch off white lines from any inked area.
I can see now, looking back on it, that I was trying all different kinds of styles and textures of ink work, and having a hard time integrating them into one vision. And it's pretty obvious where my photo reference stops. But I guess it was a step in the direction of what I've always loved: imaginative realism and fantastical juxtapositions.
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Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time I'll launch the first video intro to Clementoons here on the blog and on my YouTube channel.
Tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time I'll launch the first video intro to Clementoons here on the blog and on my YouTube channel.
