This is what my first drawing was for October! I scanned in black and white so there would be no distraction in the hair. Speaking of hair, I always love to draw hair whenever I get the chance, but I definitely get scared or overwhelmed the longer I work on hair. I am going to post the other examples of scanning in different ways, but in the end I simply wanted Black & White.

Whenever I work on an art piece, I try to do something that I have never done before and in this case it was the line background. (I am pretty sure I never did it!) I think so deeply into what is going to be around the person/object/animal and I think it causes me to stop working in a piece. Then from time to time, I look at my favorite manga or manga panels and many times the characters are in a white or gray background. I want to try that now. I want my characters to be looked at and nothing else.

Of course, I say that and I may change my mind tomorrow!

Anyhow, I have been saving up a lot and getting a bunch of new art supplies. I am definitely going to have fun working on them!

Note: this is going to be part of a 32 block of ink drawings. Can’t wait to see if I actually finish this.

Look at the other examples of my scans.

Observe my scans in grayscale vs color. In the color version you can almost see odd tones that are not actually black. At least in my computer screen. The grayscale loses that and you see literally shades of gray, mostly black actually. My top example is scanned in black and white. No variation in tones. If the scan picked up something dark, it was changed to black.

It’s amazing how much a scan can differ.