#art methods

Took me long enough, but I'm finally going to answer this!

I start with a piece of thin cardboard (behold my fine local Microcenter advertisement!) and a big pile of scrap paper torn into small pieces. I mix up my paint- usually acrylic with added white glue or gel medium to get it to stick more firmly, but I've used latex paint, other glues and mediums, or basically whatever's around.

I brush on a thick layer of paint, then lay down a small piece of paper, then brush on more paint, taking care to smooth and adhere it firmly without bubbles. I use my crappiest old paintbrushes, because you really have to mash it down and ruin your bristles. Then I just keep layering, overlapping pieces of paper and changing colors of paint when I feel like it, until I have a rough lump maybe half an inch high at its highest point.

I let the lump dry overnight, then trim the edges and cut the lump into carving-sized pieces with a utility knife while it's still pretty soft inside. I let the pieces dry for another few days, until they aren't palpably squishy any more- the paint needs to be dry all the way through, or it won't carve neatly.

I carve my chunks down using a sharp knife, a little chunk of wood as a platform, and a cutproof glove, because I'm clumsy. I have to sharpen my knife CONSTANTLY because of how badly the dense paper dulls it. Sometimes, if the piece is thick or I hit a spot that isn't fully dry, I'll do a rough carve and let it dry longer before finishing.

I make organic shapes with both curves and angular facets, trying to highlight the best patterns inside it, and I figure I'm done when all the surfaces are smooth and I like the way it looks.

As I'm carving, I produce these beautiful little curls of stripy paper-composite. The nicer pieces that don't fall apart are carefully set aside to make things like this. The messier ones get recycled into paper pulp for sculptural projects.

There should probably be another step- sealing the surface of the carved item to protect it from damage and moisture- but I haven't yet found a sealant that doesn't darken the color and change the finish in ways I really don't like. It's a shame, because I think these would make lovely jewelry, but they're just too delicate to be worn casually. But my experiments are still ongoing, when I get around to them- I'm always trying to do too many things at once.

My last two comics posted, the Animal Studies bits, I needed to be able to have the same animal image on both panels. Since I do all of my work on paper, it would be hard to get the image exact. I was worried about scaling. So I decided to make a cheap transfer system.

First I made the images on a sheet of paper. Using a few references to get a few small details the way I wanted them, I sketched with a pencil until I got it right. Then I penned over the image and erased all of the extra lines.

With these simplified images, I cut them out, making the paper form around one side of the drawing. I also added two “windows” under the image. Both of these cuttings was so I could see my guide lines for the panels on the page to make sure everything would be lined up and not out of place.

Once I was ready to do the transfer, I rubbed my 9B woodless pencil on the back of the paper, just where the image was. I wasn’t sure it would work. I had discovered this method with crayon when I was a kid, but was worried that the art paper I used would hold on to too much of the graphite or that it wouldn’t show up dark enough since it was also being transferred to a textured page.

Also, I’ve been trying to experiment with working on a tablet to do more pencil-y linework without the hell that is working with the scanner.

Of course, I use the Open Source tools, not just for the obvious reasons, but there’s something unsettling about all the ads on the Play Store apps for art. But, also unfortunately, it’s slim pickings there, but I’ve decided to go with the most robust tool.

Unfortunately, said tool is TuxPaint, basically a combo of MSPaint and Kid Pix. Because apparently nobody’s tried to port Krita to Android in Open Source form yet.

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