@ArneBab Hey, thank you! Yes, it can work in theory. I saw the other day a new generation of pencil: the 'mate' or 'black' (Staedler and Faber Castel) that behaves a bit like colored black pencils, and in general less shiny and metallic than usual pencils. If I see them on my artshop at next visit, I'll try them, because I'm curious also about trying to tone greyscale on my sketchbook as a softer alternative to what I do with ballpen right now but usual pencil shines a bit too much for me.
@ArneBab Oh nice you have them, so yes maybe you can enlight me about something: do they smudge easily? It's for a problem of sketchbook; my 2B pencil drawing often transfert easily on the other side of the paper when I close the sketchbook. I know I can spray fixative, but I often don't have the spray while traveling. I'm looking for dark pencils that don't transfert (and no problem if they can't erase well).
@davidrevoy For smudging: I just tried rubbing the sheets together and didn’t see any smudging, but I think I didn’t put on enough to actually see that. I’ll try making it darker …
here’s a first test without smudging and without any postprocessing.
@davidrevoy Here’s an adjusted version with a line erased into the eyes and aggressive smudging with the finger over the mouth (left is the normal pencil, right is the matte, I do not see a significant difference …) and three hash-tests: 12B, 6B, 2B, all three smudged for about 2 seconds with the finger (I only see smudging for the 12B, the others seem clean).
I rubbed the two sheets again, but still don’t see anything transfer to the other side.
@davidrevoy The left eye is with a normal HB pencil, the right eye with a 2B matte (but not sharpened …), the left part of the mouth with a 2B mechanical pencil (0.5), the right part of the mouth with a 2B matte pencil (but sharpened), the whole nose is with 6B, the chin and below is with 12B matte.
@ArneBab Oh thanks! 😍 That's perfect, thank you for the time you took doing that. Super interesting to see the smudge tests and the erasing. I think I'll get them on a online artshop this evening so I can play with them later next week. 😊
@ArneBab ... and I just bought them :) I should receive them at the end of next week, I'll try to post sketches done with them before the end of the month.
@ArneBab I received them yesterday afternoon (that was quick!). I love them, it's really like the "pierre noire" I'm using in signing session and a bit like colored black pencil but a little bit less waxy. Very smooth on bristol paper and cool variation of grayscale in the line. Defintely adopted! Thank you again for the tests and recommendation. 👍
@davidrevoy Such an amazing tutorial! I set the key shortcuts up in my Xencelab Quickkeys (Works on Fedora perfectly) and it works like a dream! it's like sculpting but for 2D
@deathbunnygirl Thanks! Oh, I'm curious about something about Xencelabs; do you need a proprietary driver on Fedora for the tablet or the remote Quickkey? I had an email last year from them for a review/video but as usual I say I'll test hardware with FLOSS only, and they had no idea if it could work (and I couldn't know more, because those who send email are marketing departement, they rarely know anything tech about their products... )
@davidrevoy thank you for your helpfull tutorial. 🙏 In fact, I was on my way to look for tutorials on this very topic. Now I will just need enough time to start studying the whole process.
The character is really great and perhaps a suitable name will come to my mind.
@davidrevoy I don't know why I watch your videos as I'm not an artist. I guess I just started to like the "journey" of art more than I do the destination during the last year. Amazing video and great art as always.
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