More Class Doodles

This batch of doodles is from another one of my classes. Biology. I've noticed that the more comfortable I am with the class's subject matter, the more willing I am to draw in it. This means that I not only get good grades in my math and science classes, but I also draw a lot in them. English and history classes, not so much.

Friday will be the end of this class scribble submissions.

Catsup

Sorry guyz I've been busy with library books. I've got about ...one two three four......7 nice thick books I've been trying to read all at the same time. And that's after the library rang down its overdue hammer on half of them. Ha!ha! I love Socialism sometimes!

Though I haven't been all about reading about goofy stuff. I've also been trying out different inking styles and doohickeys in Photoshop and Illustrator. As a note though, all of these doodles are pretty crap. I just focused on inking stuff.

The thing I hate about Illustrator is that it obviously draws like a computer would draw and not like a real pen.I'm still learning so everything looks real flashy.

Very subtle line shapes get all kinds of messed up for no reason other than the program's over-willingness to try to help "correct" them.

It is real annoying trying to draw one simple curve and end up redrawing it twelve times. And I still won't get it just how I really wanted it.

 I'm not saying I don't like it though. Vector drawing is pretty cool. Plus it makes changing the line colors real easy. But don't try to actually color the stuff in Illustrator. Oh no. I wasted 1 and a half hours just trying to color it. Ship inked doodles off to Photoshop.

This one is inked in photoshop. I usually don't like doing that because I have to work REAL HUGE to make things look nice. I can get the lines a little better than Illustrator, but this doodle is about 1/8th of the size I had to work at. Bleh. That takes up a lot of save space.

So yeah, maybe I'll look into other programs like Manga studio, since lots of people seem to like that. I remember using a free trail a few years ago but it would glitch out on me a lot. Still, I guess I can try it again. And I'll get back to posting regularly.

Paper Testing

Left to right: Generic sketchbook, Hammermill Color Copy Paper, Bee Paper Pen Sketcher, Bee Paper Artist Marker Pad

 I've been messing with some of my dad's really old quill pens and I realized that the generic sketchbook I was practicing in was really bad. So I dug up all of the different types of paper I had and did some testing. One type of ink & pen, four different papers. And one character that I tired of drawing after the 5th time (there's a lot I didn't include).

Obviously the Bee Paper Marker pad is the best and like its name it is also great with the markers I have. It feels so much obviously better to ink on that paper than on the others.But their pen sketcher paper SUCKS!