Theres a lot of stuff that I tend to get excited about in regards to my materials, and for me one of the most exciting and fun things about working with ink and water based media is all the different “technical” aspects involved. Some papers are really chunky and give this great texture to everything, while some papers are incredibly smooth and with a matte ink can look like you painted on glass. Because of this, I’ve lately been really obsessed with doing testers and swatches and compositing my illustrations together into some sort of freakishly expensive frankenstein of materials. So thats my dirty little secret. I’m not precious about my originals, and I don’t really care too much about having everything in the original ink on the original sheet because I feel like I can do a whole lot better if I let the unnecessary go and focus on the little details that I think make all the difference.
