Children’s Book Illustration: Pen & Ink Wash Study

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Interesting video.
Thank you for sharing!

Hello - do you add color on top of the value after this? Or was this only meant to be a value study? Very beautiful!

You drew characters from "Guess how much I love you" with the rabbits

Where do you find the Above Ground brush?

Maybe someone knows if my ink spreads under watercolor, is it a problem with the ink or am I doing something wrong?

I have got that book 😅😮

Wow this is exactly what I've been looking for. Do I need to register by the 10th if I want access to the whole course? or will it all be recorded like this

amazing! Could you describe your materials?

Yer yer yer love it makes me so happy and I’m quite old but wow thanks x

The cute paintings are especially eye-catching I think it's a good video

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Fascinating! I'll try

Love ❤ What type of paper did you use?

Hello good

Can you add colour on top of the india ink value study?

May I know what GSM paper did you used?

so much fun love it

To save a step, a person could bypass the pencil sketching entirely ... just do the inking of the figure on a light box-- with a sketch of the rabbit under the paper that will be inked on. No need for an eraser in that scenario.

We creative types need to make sure, of course, to use good paper with a decent weight for any ink and/or watercolor illustrating; otherwise if it's too thin like standard sketch pad paper then the page may warp from the watercolor dampness, or the ink could bleed through to your desk. A simple thing, but easily forgotten. (Happened to me once and that was the very last time, haha!)

Watercolor and ink remain a charming combination, like the work of Quentin Blake for those wondrous strange Roald Dahl books. I've always loved those images.

Lastly, this video is a fine tool to show a specific drawing process, but let's keep in mind that "Guess How Much I Love You" is someone else's idea, and we should not use any existing characters or designs in our own books and paintings that we intend to publish or sell. Yes, it's common sense and basically Ethics 101 but I wager that someone watching this little tutorial might think it's okay to appropriate these bunny characters and just make a new story and character names.

Love to know if you are vailble to illustrate something collaboratively.