Ok I was working on
That and got few blobs of ink, I worked around most of them but when I got to inking the background my nib started refusing to let the ink flow...and I filled it up and put my hand over the paper...when...plop....BIG deposit of ink. I tried to absorb some of it and ended up smearing it and as you see it went from there...I want to finish it in traditional medium...maybe watercolor. Is there anyway to fix the smear or should I just make the curtains really dark?
ps I haven't used dip pens in like a year...but REALLY wanted to do this with them....>_> in retrospect I should have tested my nibs first but the one I was using was working perfectly until I got to the background...I switched nibs after the curtain incident....
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It's possible that you've got something like paper fibers in the tines or that the tines are bent just enough so that they mess up the ink flow. Nibs really aren't supposed to last forever, if one starts giving you grief, just try switching to a new one unless you can see what's wrong with the first in order to fix it.
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Mercury Hat wrote:It's possible that you've got something like paper fibers in the tines or that the tines are bent just enough so that they mess up the ink flow. Nibs really aren't supposed to last forever, if one starts giving you grief, just try switching to a new one unless you can see what's wrong with the first in order to fix it.
yeah like I said after the blob I just switched...maybe I can inspect it later and see if I don't need to buy a new one just yet.
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I would either go with dark or fix it in photoshop and print a copy and watercolor that. That's also good because it means that your original copy won't be ruined if you mess up. It's bad if you did the original on fancy watercolor paper.
Ryuko wrote:I would either go with dark or fix it in photoshop and print a copy and watercolor that. That's also good because it means that your original copy won't be ruined if you mess up. It's bad if you did the original on fancy watercolor paper.
it's on bristol and it;s actually luckily not the original sketch, I printed the lins lightly on the board and inked it
the problem with printing it again isn't paper...it's ink...if my ink isn't waterproof watercoloring it would be terrible...I'll go with dark curtains it seems my best bet and as was stated it would look good that way anyway
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