Charles and Biddle

This is a bit of a departure from my regular goofy-ass comics. Hope you are not too taken aback. Maybe you can pretend this building is saying something dumb. I don't know what this building is, i just know it was kinda cool to draw. This is the intersection of Charles St. and Biddle St. in Baltimore. -Sutter

Comments

[Gabriel Mihalache]

Maybe it's just me, but I'm unable to tell which of the 2 authors posted the entry. Can you do something about that? (You both rock in equal amounts, so it's not *like that* ;)

[cJw]

Dig it.

How come every ink piece I see has a bloppy-ink-blot on it? Is it a secret-inker-type-person thing or an 'accident'?

[Ian]

It's real. Nice. No talking food, no hineys.

[Rob Weychert]

Nice drawing, Sutter. Did you do pencils first or is that all ink?

[sutter]

Gabriel - this is a Sutter drawing. Hard to believe, yes.

cJw - many of my ink drawing have ink blobs because i always try to use quills against the grain so it will lead to spattering. (As Paris Hilton will tell you... apparently)

rob - i did not pencil first. i rarely pencil first. maybe i should but i feel that i lose a sense of spontaneity when i draw it twice.

[cJw]

Thanks for the info, Sutter - and that leads me to another question.

Considering I have little (read:none) experience using inks, is "against the grain" something you try to do, or in your 'spontaneity' get too far ahead of yourself? =]

[Nathan]

There's still room for an airplane.

[sutter]

i do usually try to spatter ink, cJw. I tend to like a less polished look to the things i do. It also doesn't help that i use a nib pen much like a regular, ball-point pen.

[niff]

way to get paris hilton in on this sutter.

nice drawing.
me likes!

[Clarington]

That's eerily similar to a guy named Mervyn Peake's drawings. You should look him up, he did some fantastic illustration from the 20s to the 50s (when he died of what was probably Parkinson's), and also wrote some amazing stuff.