Mystery Ink #18

[Wuddus]

This DAMN camera!!!!

Unfortunately, it keeps "correcting" the purple to blue, and it's proving exceptionally difficult to shift it back again.

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Pen and brush were used (pen shown). This is the first "artwork" I've done in decades, and the first time ever using ink. A special guest appearance by MI#17 too. I'm pleased with how the rose turned out, but it's a shame the dragon looks like a baboon in a mask, sniffing a candle.

Or should I have said it's a shame the baboon in a mask sniffing a candle, looks like a dragon?

But anyway, back to the ink.... the paper is a 150gsm sketch book, and most of the time it was very well behaved. There were moments however, when suddenly it would feather like crazy, and I'd have to do some creative correction work. However, that might be a paper trait, rather than the ink.

No bleed through, even painting the ink on neat (undiluted) with a brush. There does seem to be some waterproof properties to this ink, as I was unable to "pull" colour with a damp brush, and washing over areas with a diluted ink seemed to repel from the ink already dried on the page.

The colour match in this photo (or as this photo is displayed on my phone) is fairly representative of the colour on the page.

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The dragon pretending to be a baboon in disguise was the bigger challenge for the camera, but these two pics are as close as I can get to nudging the colour back to what I see on the page.

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If I can capture a better picture later, I'll upload that too.