Sketch o’the Week

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I ran across this partially completed ink drawing of “The X-Files” stars Robert Patrick and Gillian Anderson (this was when David Duchovny had left the show for his brilliant film career) from a number of years ago and thought, given the new movie coming out, it might be somewhat timely. I did the drawing just for testing out some new ink nibs and different kinds of ink when I was experimenting with different tools. You can see I used a sepia ink for some of it, which I found way too watery. In fact there are four different inks on this, and I also used several nibs and brushes as well. You can see where I duplicated outside lines and forms to test different tools and materials. It’s bluish because of the crappy RGB scan.