Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

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white ink face sketch   January 10, 2023 For various reasons, I bought some white ink pens. And then I got a spiral book of black paper from a friend who was trying to get rid of art supplies she didn't need. Other than some dorky tests, this was the first drawing I did trying to capture the kind of anti-lines, anti-dark that is the point of using white ink. I took a picture that had a face (it was the robot-fist source image—in the original I'm frowning and trying to look grim but then decided to shadow it since it was a distraction from the glove) and used the GIMP "threshold" function to turn it into a monochrome image, and used that as a reference to sketch. It was quick and not perfect, and doesn't look like me (which is fine), but I like the shadows. The lines along the right side are the rings of the spiral notebook. I decided to keep those in for fun. Not bad for my first try. A big higher resolution image is here.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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