madebyinkymole
How the work is made
People often ask me how my work is made, with clients the other side of the planet receiving neat digital files who can’t be blamed for not realising there is ink under my nails and hard patches on my fingers from the pens and pencils!
This is a record of how my work’s made, whether it’s pencilled, inked, painted, fine-linered, drawn on a wall or pixelled. Everything starts on paper. I’ve got crates of the stuff, all drawn on. Where it finishes is up to the client, but these little films show you what happens in between - and the time it takes!
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For scale...tiny moon vs sharp nib.
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I usually photograph my own bits and bobs for illustrations!
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Piece of work for my friend Meghan in Port reading, NJ. She had the digital file to make prints for each of her little school pupils for the end of term, and the original for her wall! All-ink, one-take, nothing digital.
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Fineliner work of the Founders Brewing Anniversary piece.
No digital tricks! Just ink on paper.
I try to make the work as good as it can possibly be, so there are no reasons to fire upon Photoshop apart from getting it scanned and sent off (and often, for adding the colour behind the image, depending on what the brief’s calling for).
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One section of a tiny piece underway.
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"Ev'ry day I'm letterin', evr'y day I'm letterin'..." Well maybe not EVERY day but it's been pretty damn close. 1 of 6 sheets done for today's client #ernstandyoung I have literally towers of this stuff in my archive! Hmmm...Lettering Towers, there's an idea...
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Extreme close-ups of the cover of Nature Magazine being made with gel pens, fineliners and acrylic inks. The finished piece is in my main site here!
All made on an A3 sheet of paper, then scanned and an appropriately clean background dropped in.
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The vast majority of my work starts as pencil on paper - A3 and A2 - and is revised till everyone’s happy then inked in.
To send it wherever it needs to go, and in order for it to be turned into a usable file, it’ll be scanned. I try not to produce anything which needs ‘doctoring’ heavily - cleaning up, if you like - preferring to get it ‘right in one take’.
It’s the drawing equivalent of taking a photograph and getting it right in-camera, the old fashioned way - though I’m certainly a whizz with the digital tomfoolery when it’s required, which it can be for all sorts of reasons!
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Jampire!
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Time lapse of the mural!
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The grown-up Jean Louise being created for my Go Set A Watchman cover, for Open Books' edition.
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Illustration in two timelapses!
Hurry hurry Sarah, deadline approaches.
Muji fineliner 0.5mm over original freehand pencil sketch.
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I’m testing out some ideas using my Parker Slimfold and unnamed yellow plastic Parker. I use my fountain pens a lot to create artwork, I’ve done whole book covers with them.
So I thought I’d see what my ink-stained hands (tired hands today) look like through the lens!
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I’m experimenting with how things look through a lens. I film a fair bit of me doing illustration, but not simple handwriting and lettering, which I do a lot of. These are simple ideas, a phrase or poem with a specific pen and choice of ink.
Dirty hands or not though? I mean, this is how they look in real life, but it’s not very…slick, is it?
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Been playing with my fountain pens this evening, seeing how things look through the lens. I film a lot of my work in progress but it’s usually illustration, rather than the simple handwriting and lettering I still get asked to do a lot of.
This is one of my favourite poems, ever since reading Outsiders aged 14. What a book. I once created this really large on a wall inside an ad agency, but I prefer this simple version with my old fountain pen.
I didn't realise I wrote quite so fast. If I closed down, it might be neater!
And yes, my hands often do have that much ink on them...
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Working in a different environment today; the sun changing the colour of the paper and my ability to see colours throughout the four hours it took to colour this in (2 to sketch out).
As is often the case I prefer the sketch to the finished thing!
The finished piece is shown prior to any scanning or tidying - which there was only a tiny bit of anyway.
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