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gorneaux OP t1_jaexar9 wrote

Reply to comment by amalgamatedchaos in Red House, Outer Sunset, Me, Watercolor, 2023 by gorneaux

When I'm out urban sketching, I try to do the whole thing, soup to nuts, right there. With more finished pieces that I do on, uh, begins with co and ends with mission (trying not to break the rules and get deleted here), such as this one, I will generally take source photographs onsite and work from them at home. Particularly with a large size such as this (22"x30"), that saves me a day of standing in the middle of the intersection with a gargantuan piece of paper. .

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amalgamatedchaos t1_jaf2gc6 wrote

Makes sense. That's what I figured. Your lines are super clean. I like your style!

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gorneaux OP t1_jaf3ao6 wrote

Hey, thanks very much!! I do appreciate it.

Used to be I inked all my lines on co dot dot dot missioned house portraits, but that was just one more inessential thing I stopped doing to speed things up. However, the guy who commissioned this one, who's a damn good comics artist himself, wanted those black lines in there to give more of the comic book look. I didn't think about it at the time, but it was the right call — the black lines help balance out that super-vibrant red (even if it also creates kind of a CAD/illustration look, rather than something painterly).

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gorneaux OP t1_jaf3kp8 wrote

Hey, thanks very much!! I do appreciate it.
Used to be I inked all my lines on co dot dot dot missioned house portraits, but that was just one more inessential thing I stopped doing to speed things up. However, the guy who co (la de dah, music playing here) missioned this one, who's a damn good comics artist himself, wanted those black lines in there to give more of the comic book look. I didn't think about it at the time, but it was the right call — the black lines help balance out that super-vibrant red (even if it also creates kind of a CAD/illustration look, rather than something painterly.

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