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Changes in inking style

In relation to the previous art article I made about how my style with water color has changed through the years (you can check here: **Change in watercolor style**). So recently, I found out how to make use of printer ink in art XD and I found it really amusing. The colors come more solidly yet still so light. And the entire paper needs to be wet so that you can actually blend the medium properly. These are what I've managed to do with ink now and purely just ink. https://read.cash/@Hanzell/an-index-of-all-the-article-written-so-far-09a31fba#bad-link

**Playing with ink pt. 4** is the article where I posted its progression and you're free to check that out and how I sounded like a child while drawing XD but seriously, watching ink spread through paper is so fascinating https://read.cash/@Hanzell/playing-with-ink-pt-4-6566942b

Then here would be the very first attempt to use printer ink. It's not really that good since it's a trial but I think I justified it well enough? As for it's progression, that can be seen here: **Playing with ink pt. 3** https://read.cash/@Hanzell/playing-with-ink-pt-3-6ff6bb58

If anything, I'm far suited working with black ink because I handle monotonous colors really well. Although this one was something I used for a previous event here but I think it's still worth including in this collection because it shows the huge changes compared to before. (The progression of that is here: Playing with ink pt. 2 ) https://read.cash/@Hanzell/playing-with-ink-pt-2-34ab8ad0 These would be how I made the older ones. The kinds of inks that came from those cheap marker pens sold at school supply stores

If you knew about those types of markers that are in that image above, you would know that you would buy an entire set for some 0.5 - 1 usd and I only bought those kinds of markers before because they were a kind of trend back then. If you have a complete set of those, you were a cool kid of sorts. But I found that you were even cooler if you knew how to actually use those for art.

This one faded a bit because the sketchpad that had that drawing got flooded once when I left that sketchpad in one of my school lockers and since it was at the second level of the lockers, water still reached it. Anyways, It's obvious that I did this on Christmas of that year, 2012 or 2013? I think? definitely a really long time ago so yeah, that's how I drew people before. Cute, right?

Then this would be a close up of that small guy on the bench. I had planned to make it a storybook series kind of art but I just didn't have a plot in mind then. Or maybe I did but I happened to have ran out of marker ink by the time I wanted to draw. i saw rough rafts in that old sketchpad though. Anyways, my style from these two images were a mix of dilution and of solidly penning the lines out, almost cartoon-ish in nature somehow. Still amazing that I did this when I was 15 though

Most of my ink work back then were honestly mixed media art, half the time I still incorporated graphite for shadows, color pencils for better details, and waterproof ink for the outlines and finishing details like I did here. But as I've said in the comments somewhere, a lot of my art were either sold or given away so the few that remained are the few that I'm able to show here

This would be the last one because I remember the markers running out of ink and I never bothered buying those again because my sisters kept losing them. It's still a mixed media art though where I mostly used waterproof in and I believe this was drawn... around 2014 already so the markers lasted that long with me because I dilute it with water and use a brush to guide the ink direction.

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