Merlin and Vivianne

Merlino e Viviana by *cabepfir on deviantART

"La mort c'est seulement la mort, mais l'amour, c'est l'amour" (Magnetic Fields - Underwear)

A little sketch with a little military bastard.

Running down that hill

The first thing I colour with a tablet. :D

inks, nibs, Asanor & Hook

This is the first picture I ink with the new Hunt #108. The brand new brass surface had difficulties in keeping the ink, and it also seemed harder than the previous (now broken ç_ç) nib. At the beginning I had to dip the nib in the ink bottle almost every centimetre. I had almost finished inking when the nib started to be dirty enough to behave as I expected.

Anyway, this is my usual clutter when I try to ink in a clean way - I don't know, but I always get less interesting results when I try to be clean. Moreover, I'm still unsatisfied when I try to place deep blacks.

This drawing, in any case, was intended to show two main characters of my saga, Asanor: the protagonist (on the right) and his love interest, Miriel (on the left). She is the daughter of a typographer, hence their well-equipped bookshelves.



This, instead, is the last drawing I inked with the late #108. It's Hook peeling an apple for Wendy. You could tell I had just re-watched the Peter Pan movie with Jason Isaacs (squee). What you couldn't tell, since I adjusted the level, is that it was inked with a Lefranc & Bourgeois Chinese Ink, bought in Angoulême. It's a truly dreadful ink, if I may say the truth. I heard that people call the Pelikan ink a diluted wash; it only means they haven't tried the Lefranc & Bourgeois, because, meh, this is dirt water with a drop of black, not an ink. The only pro is that it's extremely flowing; but it's way too clear, almost grey, not pitch-black.

broken quill

My beloved Hunt #108 Flexible Quill got broken after only four months of use (pages inked with it: around thirty, probably). Luckily I had bought two of them in Florida, but when the next one will break, I'll have to order a few of them on the net, hoping they will survive the transatlantic transaction.

I finished four drawings this weekend. This is not one of them.


Taverna by *cabepfir on deviantART

Sansa

Sansa Stark with Clegane's cloak. Why is she naked?

Sketched during Christmas and coloured today.