Random Thoughts On (Not) Inking
I find myself fearing the inking process even though I have great tools that I’m excited to use. I’ve got two different sizes of bristol board. I’ve got a crow quill pen. I’ve even got a brand new #1 brush to try out. I want the nice finished look of an inked and scanned page. I want to “finish” something. Nonetheless, I seem to be pencilling lots of random drawings without inking any of them. I’m not even drawing on the bristol board. I’m just continuing to sketch in my normal paper sketchbook and then pondering how I could transfer the image to bristol board for inking.
I need to force myself to just draw on the bristol board for a week and then attempt inking every one of the things. I need to fix in my mind that none of my initial efforts need to be actually good enough to show anyone. You know, that whole permission to suck thing.