Still grappling with primitive geometric shapes in Clip Studio Paint.
Primitives
Category: Art
Newmillerdam Circuit
Between the wars, for a period of 12 years, you could have boarded a Bradford-bound train at St Pancras (not Euston, as I’d previously written in this post) and travelled through this railway cutting at Newmillerdam. The Midland Railway opened this line in 1905 and it closed in 1968.
I’m walking the full circuit of Newmillerdam Country Park, keeping to the paths nearest to the edges of the woods.
Snaking ironwork is a local feature, which I’ve seen on the footbridge to the island at Walton Hall and on a balustrade on the side staircase at the Bingley Arms at Horbury Bridge. If the wavy spikes on this gate at Newmillerdam were supposed to warn off poachers from raiding the Chevet Estate, it didn’t work.
3D Objects
In Clip Studio Paint, you can, as I have here, construct 3D objects from ‘primitives’ such as cubes, spheres and polygonal shapes or you can import ready-made objects such as the figure and the cart. I’ve followed these closely as reference, drawing in my normal pen and tone method on the iPad.
The advantage of constructing a setting like this is that I could then have the figure walk around to the other side of the scene for the next frame in a comic, or even show a bird’s-eye view.
Man and Dog
I used an line/tone conversion on a photograph I’d taken at Newmillerdam for the background for these characters drawn for a Clip Studio Paint Tutorial.
I’ve tried to get a screen print effect with the colour on my sketch of the pointsettia.
Raising the Tone
I remember Letratone, which consisted of rub-down sheets of screen tone. It was rather expensive and you needed to be a neat worked to use it effectively, so I never used it. Here’s the Clip Studio Paint equivalent, designed to reproduce well in print rather than to be viewed on screen, which is why there’s a checkered pattern in the tones in this version.
The Big Dig
Birthday card for an archaeologist/organic gardener. Based on actual events (no, not the bit where Prof. Roberts identifies the variety of potato).
Moral: always let the guy who’s doing the rotavating where you’ve planted the potatoes.
Frost at Nostell
A confused Great Dane attempts to take a drink from the pond below Joiners Wood. On the Lower Lake mallards and a single mute swan have gathered in the one corner that is still ice free. A shoveler drake and two females rest at the edge on the ice.
By midday the sun has got out and the expanse of white parkland in front of the house has turned green, with just a few frosty patches remaining in the shade of trees.
Ferns and Mosses
The low winter sunlight was perfect for macro photography, so I took my Olympus E-M10II fitted with a macro lens to Newmillerdam this morning.
Storyboard to Draft
Going through the Clip Studio Paint tutorial, from storyboard to draft.
Bilberry Comic Spread
The final panels drawn, hand-drawn borders added and a hopefully subtle paper texture added. Hope my editor likes it but, if not, I can soon adapt it to a regular nature diary format.