{"id":648,"date":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=648"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:05:00","slug":"driftwood-7-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 7 07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this installment: Tinet tries to make friends with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allrefer.com\/pictures\/s1\/f0317300-french-curve\">French curve<\/a> to make prettier &#8220;speed lines&#8221;.<br \/>\nIn the last panel, I made a few lines with the curve, and then filled the space between them with freehand lines to create a &#8220;grittier&#8221; effect. Admittedly, it looks a bit less shitty than when I&#8217;ve done it all freehand &#8230;<br \/>\nI bought two French curves (in the exact same shapes as in the reference link above) in Russia, some years ago, for 8 roubles each (about 2 Swedish crowns or 20 Euro cents &#8211; for the same sum you could also get a loaf of bread or a yummy \u043f\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0436\u043a\u0430 back then). It says &#8220;\u041b\u0415\u041a\u0410\u041b\u041e \u04182&#8221; and &#8220;\u041b\u0415\u041a\u0410\u041b\u041e \u04183&#8221; on them. I didn&#8217;t find any &#8220;\u041b\u0415\u041a\u0410\u041b\u041e \u04181&#8221; in that store, but it must exist &#8230; They also had excellent drawing paper.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really like using rulers of any sort. Most of the time when I really have to, I use a ruler when sketching and ink the same line freehand. Of course, with more practise, I could make ruled lines look less artificial than they turn out when I draw them now, but &#8230; it&#8217;s much faster to draw freehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this installment: Tinet tries to make friends with the French curve to make prettier &#8220;speed lines&#8221;. In the last panel, I made a few lines with the curve, and then filled the space between them with freehand lines to create a &#8220;grittier&#8221; effect. Admittedly, it looks a bit less shitty than when I&#8217;ve done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-7","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}