Leaf Ghost #115

This was my first time using a straight edge for a leaf ghost since #16. I’d forgotten how much extra effort it takes to hold the edge in place and then move it ever so slightly for each new line.

It’s also my first time ever using fine line markers and letting stroke weight make the difference between foreground and background. The former is a Copic Multiliner 0.05mm, and the latter is a Micron 08 (0.5mm) recently purchased from May Day Paper & Post.

I’m thankful that I have a fairly well-established system for drawing ghosts at this point, because otherwise I would have gotten confused about what I was doing where.

Leaf Ghost #114

The color scheme from #111 here rendered with W&N Sunshine Yellow and Nut Brown (and crosshatched with a dip pen, of course).

The novel twist this time is the drop shadow. I created it using a Copic Neutral Grey 1 marker, which produced a more realistic shadow in the more abstract drawing. The leaf now looks like it’s floating above the background toward the bottom but on the same plane with the background (or maybe actually part of it) at the top where there’s no shadow.

Leaf Ghost #113

Today’s new trick: mixing colors by alternating between lines. The dark background squares are a combination of W&N India Black and Emerald, and the dark foreground is Nut Brown and Orange. The result is one of those techniques that looks different when you’re seeing it in person. The photo of the result tends to look more like single, darker colors rather than separate hues intermixed.