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Old 10-06-2008, 06:53 PM
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Default Re: Katherine's Tutorial #3: color scrimshaw peacock pendant

Here's how it looked after inking the lightly dotted outline. Subtle, but it's there. Some of the dots in the crest feathers were too shallow to hold ink at this point but I could still see them under the scope.



Then it's time to connect the dots to make a stronger outline. I stippled the entire outline of the image, and brushed on the India ink with a really small brush (it's a 2/0 round sable, if anyone wants to know, wouldn't mind an even smaller one though).



This ink will dry all over the surface. At this stage of the game I was removing the excess ink with a barely-damp q-tip. This changes as I get farther into the project, but it's what I was doing at the time. It works, but pushing around wet ink makes it more likely to get into places you don't want it (your other colors). I'm really trying to avoid that.



And here it is fully outlined: