Dreamy ladies (perhaps clichélves)

Title: Dreamy ladies (perhaps clichélves)
Media: 0.1 Staedtler and 0.3 Pilot Hi-Techpoint 5 technical pens. Lamy Safari with Noodler’s black ink. I like the Lamy Studio, I have it in Fine point and I can get a thinner line from the pen if I use the nib upside down. If you draw with pen and ink, try fountain pens, and you’ll never go back. Refillable as well, which makes them more economical. And you can choose which ink you want! The image is edited in PS, contrast and brightness and stuff. I know next to nothing about computer modification, I usually play around a bit til it looks good on my screen.
Paper: About 20 x 10 cm. Old sketchbook from Becker-Hansen, at least 30-40 years old. Cool yellowed paper.
Inspiration: this is more or less the usual doodle-fare for me. Except the strange absence of monsters and teeth.
Notes: I’d like to practise drawing more realistic faces. I blame Brian Froud and Wendy Pini, everything I drew between 11 and 22 years of age was saturated in elves and faery. Pretty, but I didn’t draw anything original, just stuff that looked like what others had done (better) before me. Elves were sprouting out of my sadly un-pointed ears, they had pretty muscles pretty eyes, pretty accessories, pretty horses, und so weiter. At least not that many unicorns, though there were a few of those as well. I rather liked all of that at the time, though. I rather like some of it still. It made me start to draw and paint, so I am grateful for that. It also made me (at 12 years of age, mind you) construct a contraption made of metal wires and cloth to “pointify” my ears, that I wore every night for about 6 months until I gave up, ears still not pointed. Not as grateful for that, but it makes for a good story… 🙂

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