Bleank

After getting used to BlackInk (and falling even further in love with it) AND getting a Wacom tablet (before I was using a mouse...) I think my art has improved a tad. Based on a photo I took.

nice pic, thanks for sharing ur art work

Inspired by (and painted on top of) a Skyrim screenshot. (Did not use Color From Image).

Painted over a screenshot from Dishonored (without using image-based-color).

Painted over a photo I took of a friend on a hike near SLC a month ago. Some day I'll break my reliance on reference material... :P

All the pictures are beautifully drawn. It was all amazing. Very appreciative.

Appreciation seconded. I think your method is great: good way to learn with good results. In my opinion (!), process is an integral part of defining art (and Bi certainly raises a lot of nebulous questions in that regard). Thank you for referencing the images, even if not used with image-based color. I especially like the textures in the fourth piece; very creative.

Thanks for the kind words, guys! This one didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but I did it in around half an hour, so I'm not too disappointed, especially since I've never done a face before. This is based on the famous photograph portrait of Nikola Tesla.

That's pretty good for half an hour and your first face. Looked up the same photo and gave it a shot. I'm inexperienced and as a result super slow so this is what I came up with after 4 hours. Keep at it. As a beginner with faces I highly recommend you stay the hell away from color. Get the basics down with B&W. Simplify it by just trying to see the relationships between shapes. Constantly look back at your reference. Squint if you need to pick out shading and in the case of a B&W, depth.

I think your method is great: good way to learn with good results. In my opinion (!), process is an integral part of defining art (and Bi certainly raises a lot of nebulous questions in that regard). Thank you for referencing the images, even if not used with image-based color. I especially like the textures in the fourth piece; very creative.