My Gelpen Work

[Sorator]

So, now and then I get the urge to do some gelpen.... stuff. It's rather hard to explain, so I'll just post whatever I have scanned in here. Which right now is just the one, but meh.

 

Sometimes I start with pre-made patterns, like in this one; sometimes I just free-draw the squigglies on a whole page; sometimes I'll put in someone's name or the like in the middle and fiddle with stuff around it. Really depends on the mood and what I have readily available. I do try to avoid using any patterns that have copyrights.

 

I explicitly deny anyone the privilege to use these images anywhere else, even if credited. If you'd like to do so, PM me and we'll talk.

 

[spoiler=6/17/2012]

With this one, I started with a snowflake pattern, did some geometry around it, then filled the rest of the page with squigglies. This one is a bit old - I've since stopped trying to use black as a filler anywhere, heh. Just stands out waaay too much in the end. Looking at this now also makes me miss that olive-green color... can't find it anywhere else. It seems like there's only one big gel-pen ink producer who sells to all the different companies, so wildly different brands of pens tend to have the exact same colors repeated a ton... but I haven't found that one since it ran out.

 

This is by far the oldest of the ones I still have today... pretty sure I started it in middle school. As you can see, I tried using pastels/neons/black in here and it just didn't work at all, heh.

 

I have yet to finish this one... got mildly disappointed when I realized I would rather have switched color schemes from the snowflake to the squigglies. >.> I want to do this over that way sometime, but I really should finish this one too.

 

And here's what I've been working on tonight... I'd show the whole thing, but it's a secret. ;) This much has taken me about... four to six hours to do, though I've been training firemaking at the same time and doing the odd chore in the midst of that. And I also drew the outlines, and you can't see the whole thing, so... meh. But that's a decent estimate when considering how long it takes to do an entire page for me, complicated by my joint issues that make it fairly painful as well. That's why I don't do more of these, honestly.

 

 

[spoiler=6/27/12]Got home from Denmark yesterday, spent most of the evening (and well into the night, heh) working on the secret thing. Here's what I've done so far (partially censored):

 

[Steph]

That is very neat and original I think. I agree on the decision to not use black

[Pirate Mitch]

Cute :3

 

EDIT: I like the outlining in the third picture. Makes it stand out which is nice.

[Sorator]

Yeah, I usually outline with silver/black/blue to begin with, but it tends to get colored over afterward. I've been playing with going over the outlines after coloring in, which I did in that last pic - I think it works well.

[Steph]

I love the outlining in the unfinished snowflake, i think it looks awesome! Should finish that one sometime :)

[Sam]

Nice work, these remind me of mandala artworks; they've got a nice psychedelic quality.

[Iglw]

Took me a while to figure out what gelpens were. XD

I love what you've done.

[Sorator]

Got home from Denmark yesterday, spent most of the evening (and well into the night, heh) working on the secret thing. Here's what I've done so far (partially censored):

[Star.]

Took me a while to figure out what gelpens were. XD

I love what you've done.

Lol same, need dat space between the gel and pen.

 

I like the snowflake ones, they're amazingly accurate.