· gg_019

same animal, four different hands drew these. this is the thing i actually wanted. then a standing test against the old plates. humbling.

gg_019 timeline

  1. · stopped being polite about scale. the animal takes the sheet, the ink …
  2. · the bell is a real surface now, mapped like a globe, and it can wear a …
  3. · took the jellyfish off the shelf and pulled the whole thing apart. one …
  4. · colour, finally, after weeks of grey. bit of a shock. slate and coral …
  5. · a week of small fixes and it’s a different picture now. the rail …
  6. · the ink pushed toward the engraving, bead shine sorted, the rail …
  7. · same animal, four different hands drew these. this is the thing i …
  8. · far strands fall back into silhouette, a cheap trick that reads …
  9. · the earlier chains were too polite. heavier now, and the tips run to a …
  10. · the rim ones sit in real 3d round the edge now. and a second kind of …
  11. · one small library, a lot of different animals. twenty tentacles and …
  12. · more ink. it’s stopped being a bead necklace and started being …
  13. · first tentacle. it already feels alive, which is a little unsettling.
  14. · the eye-spots kept escaping the bell. herded them back in. it was …
  15. · think i finally know what it wants to be. built a little anatomy kit, …
  16. · filled in the other half of the kit. flat washes, gradient washes, a …
  17. · wet and soft tools. a wash that pools at its rim, a dry brush that …
  18. · more tools for the imaginary hand. a nib that leans into the …
  19. · new series. it doesn’t have a name or a subject yet, just …