solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

Adding screen-tones makes all the difference.
It's my digital fairy dust 🧚‍♂️​✨​

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current panel = current mood

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If like me you find yourself struggling in these trying times, know that you‘ll always have a room in my magnificent Elven Castle, waiting for you to get some rest. ✨​

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Currently drawing another #silhouette-style #fairytale chapter.

I actually cheated and skipped a more complicated chapter for this easier one - lots of stress and people to take care of these days, and I worried the #comics pages would otherwise peter out entirely…

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Aaand the final incarnation of my mountains:

removed all paper and rubber cement and used fine brushes for outlines, rocks and structures. White ink for rivers in the valley.

Usually, this stage ruins everything, so although it doesn't capture the essence of this place, it's no disaster, either.

(I think I will add some digital structures later on in the computer phase, to make it a bit more iridescent...)

But for the moment, that's it!
Whew!

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Phase 4 of my mountain range:

Peeled off the rubber cement here and there, applied it in other places in hope of getting more shades and nuances.

Then sprayed ink again - it's so important to know when to stop.

(I can always make it darker in the ink stage, but making it lighter needs white ink and destroys the sprayed base.)

I must say I like it so far! Surprised I didn't ruin it yet.

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On to Phase 3

Applying the “poor people's air brush“, my trusty tooth brush, to create mineral-looking lighter and darker areas.

Not too much, as I will go over it a second time.

(White areas have been covered with rubber cement.)

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Phase 2:
Still blue pencil, but filling in structures, currents, and a little light and dark.

So far, so good...

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Current work in progress: This double-spread landscape.

I have to try to do it justice, it's just too close to my heart to fuck it up.

Well, let's find our... 😅​

Phase 1: Outlines with blue pencil.

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I bet y’all think that as a comics artist, I’m constantly locked up in this tiny chamber, huddled behind a tilted desk, but watch me SOAR high above the magnificient planes of the #Iceland|ic highlands around lake Àlftavatn!

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I drew some trees today, so maybe there is hope 🌱 🌍

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Northern lights ✏️✨

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Hey, some of these #manga-esque screentones I use in my current #comics project look pretty cool in their own right! 🙃

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Window Doodling.

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In light of U.S. Vice president Mike Pence’s recent visit to #Iceland to re-establish a military presence there, let me share with you the rusted remains of the WWII naval base in the Hvalfjörður fjord, destroyed by #Elves in 1944 for basically interdimensional imperialism and trespassing.

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