#otptember

omg This took too long. How do people keep work-in-progress drawings over several days? I'm used to finishing a drawing within a day...or within an all-nighter and another day. lol Needless to say, I will not being doing longer drawings like this for the rest of OTPtember 2022. I need to catch up on the days I skipped while working on this one, after all.

The other day (9/21/2022), I thought I should try drawing my OTPs in the style that I've been drawing OC witches for Witchtober 2022 and since Inktober 2020: black and white monochrome; mostly simple silhouettes. Since today is the last day of Pegoryu Week, tomorrow I'll try this style with Dimiclaude.

9/26/2022. Copic Gasenfude brush pen, stopped in the middle to switch to pencil underdrawing, then lined with Gasenfude. Copic markers for gray and black. Hatchlines in Platinum Preppy fountain pen using Noodler's Ink. Some clean-up with white-out, Gelly Roll white gel pen, and Krita.

I think there's something wrong with my Copic 100 marker. I added ink refill, but the nib still makes streaky strokes. The only thing that smoothed it out was rubbing alcohol, added directly to my marker nib. So is all the ink in my marker nib clotting/drying? Why isn't adding more ink, remoisturizing it? Is my nib messed up? Should I replace it? Or is my marker barrel messed up? Should I just get a whole new marker? I've got all kinds of Copic Sketch marker problems like this: nibs with crystalizing ink clumps, nibs that stay dry no matter how much ink I add, nibs that just won't absorb more ink refill, etc. I don't know if the nib or the barrel is the problem, so I'm not sure what to replace. I will say that most of my Copic markers with problems are from the Sketch 25th anniversary set. So I don't know what's wrong with that set. Maybe it's just my specific set; maybe it's all the anniversary sets. I don't know. If anyone can help give me clues, you'd have my thanks.

9/22/2022. Doodled in Pilot Petit fountain pen using Monteverde "Charoite" ink. Colored with Copic markers and Touch markers. Some clean-up on Krita.

Doodled 9/10/2022. Kirta 9/11-12/2022.

Pencil sketch, inked with Stabilo pens, Copic Multiliner pens, Daiso brushpen, Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens. Colored with Copic markers. Some clean up with Krita.