Hey! Housebrick

My piece for @dotzines 's Pokejinka dex zine! I got to draw Mankey.

What's cookin' good lookin?

AAAND part 2: misc pins because I had space for extra designs and we had some new characters in the pruna game as well as the Aberr DM's cute ship.

I made wooden pins for the one year anniversary of the Aberr game I'm in!

A little experiment with a multicolor reduction lino print!

Consistency is way thinner than what I'm used to, and the drying time IS longer, but its still drying pretty fast. I actually think going for the feel of an ink causes me to under ink my block. I've been testing a wood mounted hard lino block and a rubber speedy carve block with a wood clam press. My best results were on the soft rubber, the hard lino I had to reink and hand burnish to get something nice but spotty. Even still, in a pinch, with a gun to my head, I would still pick this over any cheap speedball formulation. The detail is really good when I get the right pressure! I haven't tried speedball's oil inks yet, I have some kind of fabric and paper formulation that claims to be oil (Its the pack you get at michaels lol) which was uuuh pretty frustrating to use as far as drying time went. No shockers there.

I'm ordering some caligo oil ink soon which I'm hoping will solve a lot of my gripes. I think at some point I'll need to get bulk paper as well because that may be an additional issue beyond the typical skill grind it takes to learn.

The crew going to the ball!