bought a mechanical pencil today. They also had a bargain bin with unpopular lead, so I bought a bunch with different hardnesses, to see if I could figure out what this hardness stuff is about. I couldn't really, though I did clearly feel a difference between the bargain bin stuff and the packet of caran dache leads I also bought.
Decided last minute to pull the dialogue a bit further away - it was a mistake.
With this I've finally finished the 4 pages I planned out one week ago. I have an idea for how to continue it, but it requires a lot of faces and dialogue, so it'll probably be a while until I get around to do it.
Also decided to add in the initial draft I sketched. Out in the beginning. The only thing that's really changed from there is this final panel, which I had focused a lot more on the characters head.
Good thing I didn't write the dialogue down right away. I think I'm okay with it like this, but I still have to sleep it over. And even this took much too long to get to.
Ok, still have one panel to do. But at least I made some proper progress.
Been walking around Berlin all day long today again. Wanted to do do the comic page today, but I'm really sleepy now. So I added another stick figure to the margin.
Had basically no time today. So I drew this tiny stick figure in the margins.
I don't really have a lot of time to draw today and tomorrow, so I hope I'll get to finish this on Sunday.
Page 3. Again, really happy with the result. Except the pose for the full character in the bottom left panel. He looks so unstable. Also, what even are properly drawn clothes?
For the sake of me couldn't focus on work at all today. So I stopped in the afternoon, and instead ADHD hyperfocused on making a comic for a world building concept I've had for years. Like, one hour layouting the first four pages, and then 5 or more hours drawing only the first two. Incredibly proud of the results, but damn...
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Yep, it's about hardness, and how dark it is. I read somewhere, that for technical drawing harder lead is supposedly better. So I tested it. But even the 6H is not that different from the HB (and the photo makes it look a bit more pronounced than it is to my eye), so I'm not sure that it really matters for where I'm at.
But the F, 4H and 6H are all from a no-name brand in the bargain bin at the store, and using them feels almost like scratching the paper with a needle, whereas the HB and ? (which was the lead already in the pencil when I bought it) felt a lot nicer to use. If the scratching was due to lead hardness, then F should feel a lot closer to HB then to 6H, as far as I understand. And it doesn't...
So I learned at least something from this.
I wonder how many times I'll break that thin lead in the long term, though I do feel like I've gotten quite a bit better with my pen handling by using the fine liners.
I have a heavy left hand, and couldn't use thinner lead back in the day. Ah, but looking at your stuff, it looks like hardness and how dark it'll get?