How to Prepare for a Pen & Ink Illustration

Video Transcript

"Hi, welcome to my studio, I'm Lars Erik Robinson and my company is Lars Arts: All Around Art-tainment is my slogan 'cause I deal with anything that has to do with art, and because I've been in the field doing caricatures I deal with anything that has to do with entertainment. So today we're going to talk about how we use pen and ink in an illustration. I have a piece here that I created when I was in school and I was trying to actually have an idea of aliens wanting to take something back to their planet and came up with this idea of a GE and to have light bulbs and I tried to create this thing, but so - before I came to this final piece the one I had to go through - and I'll show you that... before you get to this final piece actually you have to use a lot of studies, and this shows you a good example of what you do to cross hatch. So how to use pen and ink in an illustration? It's a lot of cross hatching, you go back and forth like this. And it creates a value. Here's a study of a ship for example, I did this plane, a real good outline of it, so I can get a real good idea of how that ship looks, and this is all made out of - made out of memory, I just came up with it. And the main characters are in this piece, and I wanted these to be the main characters up here and I wanted to be the main focal point 'cause that's where they're throwing the light bulbs. I wanted to make sure I had a tight sketch of that, so because - before I go to my final piece it's permanent - it's never going to be able to - I'm not going to be able to take that line work off. So you really have to have a good plan of what you're going to do before you do a final piece. So I wanted to get a light from underneath and get that - create that, so. Hope that gives you a little bit more understanding of what we go through before you do a pen and ink piece because it's very important to do good studies on that, before you go through that. Hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much."