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Still life. Dip pen, September 2026.
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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
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naught101 lemmy.world naught101@lemmy.world
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Those hatches on the cloth on the left are impressive.. Had to look closely to see they are drawn without a ruler

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GrantUsEyes lemmy.zip GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
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Lovely textures. And a great portrait of the mundane

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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
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Lovely textures. And a great portrait of the mundane

Thank you so much! I'm not normally into still life but something about this made me smile.

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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
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Those hatches on the cloth on the left are impressive.. Had to look closely to see they are drawn without a ruler

Thank you! People ask me what my hobby is and, in terms of hours spent, it's mostly drawing closely spaced parallel lines.

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Hanrahan slrpnk.net hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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that's... amazing! well done.

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Bananskal nord.pub Bananskal@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-01
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Very cool! There's so much detail in this deceptively minimalistic way of drawing. I like it a lot. ✨

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Anachu leminal.space Anachu@leminal.space
Joined: 2026-06-07
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this is really pretty!

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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-17
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this is really pretty!

Thank you! It's the nicest thing anyone has said about a kitchen brush caddy.

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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
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Very cool! There's so much detail in this deceptively minimalistic way of drawing. I like it a lot. ✨

Thank you! It was a lot of lines...

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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-17
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that's... amazing! well done.

Thank you for saying so!

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naught101 lemmy.world naught101@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-05-08
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Thank you! People ask me what my hobby is and, in terms of hours spent, it's mostly drawing closely spaced parallel lines.

I've been getting in to cross hatching a bit lately. It's really enjoyable, but I'm definitely daunted by the prospect of anything bigger than the tiny things I've been doing.

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Bananskal nord.pub Bananskal@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-01
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Thank you! It was a lot of lines...

How did you tackle the transparency of that soap pump bottle? Did you draw that first or last or what place did that have in the workflow? Did you erase the parts of the other stuff that "disappear" due to the light refraction of the bottle, e.g.?

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case_when lemmy.world case_when@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-17
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How did you tackle the transparency of that soap pump bottle? Did you draw that first or last or what place did that have in the workflow? Did you erase the parts of the other stuff that "disappear" due to the light refraction of the bottle, e.g.?

Nothing super complicated: I just marked out regions near the side of the bottle in pencil, basically notes of where not to ink. Reflections I inked and didn't draw inside. Refractions were drawn by bending the lines close to the edges. And I used wiggly lines for the shading of objects behind the bottle instead of straight ones. I think the combo worked well!

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Bananskal nord.pub Bananskal@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-01
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Nothing super complicated: I just marked out regions near the side of the bottle in pencil, basically notes of where not to ink. Reflections I inked and didn't draw inside. Refractions were drawn by bending the lines close to the edges. And I used wiggly lines for the shading of objects behind the bottle instead of straight ones. I think the combo worked well!

Awesome skill, well done! Thanks for the details!

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