inkpainting and making-of

Hello Community

I wanted to show you one of my latest ink-paintings.

It is made with black drawing ink on Hahnemühle Aquarel paper, size A3

First thing I always do when I start such a painting, is a pencilscetch. It is important that the proportions are correct and that the likeness is already given at this stage.

Once the sketch is finished, I take a fountainbrush with very watery ink and get all the important features drawn. Then I erase the pencilsketch and only the almost invisible ink linework remains.

Then I start getting the first values in.

I keep setting the most important values.

I continue with the arms, hands and legs and give the father's eyes some wrinkels.

Then I do the easierst part: Dropping some black for the clothes. Even if the clothes are black, I try to give them some values. I also start to give the faces more depht by adding darker values.

The last steps are smothening the edges where needed, adding the last values and the highlight in the kid's eyes (white ink)

The final painting took me about 4-5 hours.

I hope you like it!
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