I originally drew this head shapes page over a couple of weeks in May 2020. It was unplanned and started as just a small A6 canvas to practice using the real g-pen in clip studio paint. It’s always kinda bugged me that it’s a ridiculous size for print and I’ve considered redrawing it larger a few times since.
I’m still trying to get better at inking over blue line so thought I’d enlarge the head shapes page to A3 and give it a go.
I tackled the low stakes stuff first, initially inking with a carbon pen but it felt a little stiff (I was gripping the pen too hard, wearing out my wrist). I switched to a Pentel Arts Duopoint Flex pen that I picked up in Poland a few years back, it’s double ended with an ultra fine nib and a flexible brush. The lines went down much smoother and I was getting a nice variation between thick and thin. The only drawback, it’s water based, something I realised when I used the posca white paint pen for highlights. It looks like the posca pen also irritatingly mixes with the water based cyan ink from the printer too.
