Holly Does Art

Who saw the super blood moon this morning?

There will be a super blue blood moon tonight, reaching a complete eclipse at 4:52 AM in Los Angeles! Here a little eclipse sketch to go with it! Happy moon gazing!

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I love Claire from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children . She is such a strange and interesting character with the back mouth. I wish she had more of a role in the movie! Did you read/enjoy the book or movie? Amazon

If you've noticed, I usually prefer to draw in ink. Drawing ink is fun but difficult because you can't erase and you usually rely on one tone for the entire project. So if you want to add lighting or shading, you need to use technique to imply light. There are three main techniques to use to shade in ink: 1.Crosshatching Crosshatching is made by drawing "X" shapes with your lines. The closer the lines are, the darker the shading will look. Most artists shade in ink with some form of crosshatching. It can done very clean and precise or super, super messy. To crosshatch, the first thing you'll do is choose your light source: Here we will be shading a circle. Something a lot of beginning artists do is outline everything in ink first. I recommend leaving your lines broken where the most light would hit. This implies that the light is blurring out the harsh edge. If you outline everything, it'll make it look more graphic - which is fine, if that is wha...