Red Scribble Portrait
Illustration · Portrait · Scribble
Recipe
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Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.
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A portrait drawn entirely in a single colour of red pen on textured off white paper. The head, hair and every shadow are made from dense tangled scribble, loose and open where the light falls, knotted almost solid in the darkest areas. Paper grain visible throughout, the drawing dissolving into loose stray line at the edges rather than ending cleanly, absolutely no second colour anywhere.
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Recommended settings
- Size
- 1280 x 1024
- Quality
- High
- Background
- Opaque
- Output
- PNG
Tips
- 1Density does the tone. Say loose in the lights, knotted in the darks.
- 2Let it dissolve at the edges. A hard crop makes it look printed.
- 3One colour only, stated twice if necessary.
Things to try
Blue
the same drawing in cobalt
Full figure
the technique at full length
Sparse
far less line, more paper
Two colours
a second pen for the shadows only
Animal
a creature in the same hand
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