The quest for artwork that compresses well at high resolution yet has enough appeal continues. Today: biro.
When it was decided that the Disney production of ‘Basil of Baker Street’ would be renamed to The Great Mouse Detective because the original title sounded “too British”, Peter Schneider sent out this wonderful thing.

Beautiful document too.
Leader.

Another thing about Paper: a colour picker would be great. A limited palette is great, but not when it’s the same colours over and over.

And portrait support! And! And!
Just chillin’ in the woods.

All this artwork is from the same universe, if you may permit me to drop a little world-building terminology… these are some discreet people living in their little valley homes. What do they look like? What do they do in their spare time? Are they happy?

Hard to tell with silhouettes, I know.
merlin: Studio Ghibli Postcards
Here’s one of the sketches I made trying to get this guy’s body right. Unfortunately, the head and the body just don’t match, and he ends up looking like someone wearing a scary helmet. Obviously I need to relax… loosen up…
Particularly sensitive.

Was drawing this while watching films last night. Paper is nice, but I wish you could zoom in on your drawings as getting into anything in detail is hard when you’re drawing with a Wacom Sausage.
Working out how to make the drawings I need to make for this project. They need to compress well, so there can’t be too many colours, but they also need to have enough detail to tell a story. They also need to be appealing illustrations with enough weight in their own style.

Beats me.
I love woodblock prints of myths, so I decided to make my own