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Yeah, so, this drawing (like nearly all of my ink drawings) was drawn pretty small, so I was unsuccessful in getting the text on the shirt to be more legible. The point of it was supposed to be obscured, but not this much. Oh well
I’ve been working on drawing larger for traditional art now. The issue was my desires to use the least amount of a page so that I could include more drawings on it—to avoid “waste”—but if doing so inhibits the quality of the work and doesn’t allow me to achieve what I want, then it ends up being more or less a waste anyway. Slowly breaking myself out of this habit. Need to embrace a larger space and figure out how I can still fill in the spaces with the right amount of detail, and also being kinder to myself about making mistakes and what only appears to be a waste of paper (because it’s not).
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Ah, that makes a lot of sense. The scarcity really puts on the pressure of wanting to make the most of things.
Vaguely related, but that reminds me of at the end of a high school year when the recycling bins would be set outside classrooms so people can recycle their old school notebooks. One year, during a class that wasn't doing anything during that time, I sat outside and opened up every notebook and tore out all the blank unused sheets that I saw and took them home. So so many of them, I actually still have some of them today.Fun idea for this drawing being a header, possibly a footer in the corner or something too, overlaid in the background at a low opacity or something.
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I know I just dug out a nearly full pack of COPIC PAPER—actual marker paper designed by the company specifically for Copic markers. It’s way different than what is classified as “marker paper”. I know exactly where and when I bought that (AnimeExpo 2015). It’s wonderful paper, but I was always afraid to use it all! And here it sat in a drawer unused for nearly 10 years!!! XD
I would probably totally do that, too—my notebooks were always full by the end of the school year, even if I wrote stories or doodled in them. I still have a few school notebooks that had some of the “Transformers” fan-fiction I wrote back in 1992-94! :) And, ironically, I still write TF fan-fiction today! XD
It really would make something neat like note paper or stationery illustration designs! I know a former co-worker (he was a talented artist) who ran the Library’s print shop would make his own designs for notepads—he created notepads for staff, because we had those page-gluer things that you could make notepads with. :)
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I can understand that. When I was really little, my dad worked at a (what was then) a large hotel chain. I can remember him bringing home stacks of old papers from the place--which were basically like printed placemats for children to color, old disposable menus and so forth.........which the hotel chain would simply throw away (the 1980's were not huge on recycling). Since I was always drawing and my dad drew as well, we would use the backs of these fairly nice papers to draw on. But since we never knew when we'd get more paper this way, we both would try to fit as much on one piece of paper as we could, to make it last. So, I get that mentality. I still have a little bit of that myself--over the years, I've hoarded lots of kinds of art papers, afraid to use more than a few sheets, because I never knew if I'd ever find that paper again. I've been going through drawers and finding all these specialized art papers and telling myself--it's time to use them. So I've been slowly doing that.......
I really do like the pose you've used here--it looks really great with your style, too. I feel like this is a drawing that could make a good icon or stationery header (if you still wrote letters on paper). :)