Yesterday night, I pulled an all-nighter, trying to catch a sale at Vistaprint, only to later realize that I had incorrectly designed one of the business cards I had ordered. ~__________~; So much for saving some money by getting 2 types of cards in 1 shipping order. Ug. That's gonna haunt me for a while...
So I was very happy to find a very nice DateSana fanfic on Tumblr. "Convenience Store part 2" by DJ.
http://radiojamming.tumblr.com/post/47681077306/datesana-convenience-store-part-two
The story included one moment where Yukimura's smile was just very uplifting. I found myself suddenly drawing, even before I had finished reading the fic. ^^;
It felt very nice to doodle in pencil again. And even better to not bother with the strain of inking my outlines. I just went straight in with markers. Even some of the lines that couldn't be defined by pencil alone, I just used the very tips of my Copic Sketch and my Tombow marker. I'll say it again: It's so relaxing to not ink my lines. ^__^
So I think I really like these ultra faint Copic markers with 4 zeros behind the letter. Once the ink started to dry in the areas I had colored with E0000, it wasn't invisible, but instead, ever so subtle and faint, that any brushstrokes were nominal. It created that nice "floating" effect I wanted. The form wasn't made concrete by the coloring---which is something I would have had to be wary of, with darker colors. I was afraid E0000 would be unnoticeable because it is the lightest Ecru, but it's perfect. I really have my eye on set Ex-4 now. Not just as a blender for darker shades, but also for safely blocking down my color decisions. That's it. At the next convention, if I can get set EX-4 for $60 or less ($5 per marker, 12 markers), then I'm getting it! >u<
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