fear of the almost-blank page
Aug. 10th, 2006 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI never thought I'd find myself in this place.
I have a piece of board that I taped off the edges of and painted a halfway-interesting gradation on. I have a sketch that I did of what I want to put on this board. I did some quick tests with various pencils I have lying around, to see what will work with throwing gouache on top of it - some of the pencils I was thinking of using turned out to be too waxy.
And this piece of board, and the sketch, are just sitting there. I whipped the sketch out in a minute or two. It should be a moment's work to get a loose version of it blocked in on the board, enough to start painting over it. But I keep on cringing away from doing this.
Because I'm afraid of fucking it up.
Three bucks worth of board (I think), a bit of paint, a few minutes of painting, and I'm afraid of fucking it up.
I've been spending too much time with 'undo' available. I feel like an idiot.
I also need to figure out a cheap and not-annoying way to get a rough from a little sketch onto board. In the long run, I suspect I want an opaque projector...
I have a piece of board that I taped off the edges of and painted a halfway-interesting gradation on. I have a sketch that I did of what I want to put on this board. I did some quick tests with various pencils I have lying around, to see what will work with throwing gouache on top of it - some of the pencils I was thinking of using turned out to be too waxy.
And this piece of board, and the sketch, are just sitting there. I whipped the sketch out in a minute or two. It should be a moment's work to get a loose version of it blocked in on the board, enough to start painting over it. But I keep on cringing away from doing this.
Because I'm afraid of fucking it up.
Three bucks worth of board (I think), a bit of paint, a few minutes of painting, and I'm afraid of fucking it up.
I've been spending too much time with 'undo' available. I feel like an idiot.
I also need to figure out a cheap and not-annoying way to get a rough from a little sketch onto board. In the long run, I suspect I want an opaque projector...
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Date: 2006-08-11 03:17 pm (UTC)Anyway, my point is that Brother printers are inexpensive and seem to be of good quality (better than the countless HP, Epson and Canon printers we've owned) and there are Mac drivers available for most of them—even for the scanners. (:
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Date: 2006-08-11 04:19 pm (UTC)I don't really trust the all-in-ones, plus they tend to be sheet-feed scanners rather than flatbed. Not very usable when most of your scanning comes out of a sketchbook you don't feel like ripping up!
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Date: 2006-08-11 08:20 pm (UTC)Please do tell me how it works out when you do get one, in case I can afford a pricier printer one day.