HERE'S ANOTHER
REALLY ODD
Thing I drew with
The dropper measuring thingy that comes in some ink bottles:
I'm sure it has a name, like every other thingy in the world. You press the top and hold it, dip it in the ink, unpress it and let the ink get sucked in. Then draw with it, occasionally pressing to release blobs of black for emphasis. This technique was used for one of my favourite logos, The Dance of Lifey Death, a book of mine first publshed by Dark Horse in 1993 (full cover), and to finish the effect I wanted to cut little feet out of one of those old style ballroom dance manuals, but instead I borrowed a rubber stamp of a barefootprint from my daughter, hayley campbell, who had borrowed it from a classmate at school. When he got it back it never worked properly again because I'd soaked it in india ink and it went hard. Sometimes I just hate myself.
Labels: logos, markmaking
posted by Eddie Campbell at
01:52
13 Comments:
I know where this is going.
If you drew the captain america with your todger I am gonna be sick.
Nah, this will be the "ye can only draw thin lines with a pubic hair" routine. Mick
Sure the thingy is a 'pipette'?
Ben Smith
I thought a pipette was one of Gladys Knight's backing singers. Have just read that Black Diamond bookie you had out a while back, turns out I bought a signed version although I guess you mailed out the signatures. It sorta has connections with From Hell, I thought, like turn of the 20th century, examining the stuff that sorta goes into making the 20th century, that sorta thing. Anyway, it were a good read, and that explosion really is breath taking.
If you use a bad brush pen you'll get the same result. Because those things leak like Hell! :P
And I imagine that the owner of the rubber stamp developed an unusual or even subconscious hatred for india ink. :D
Ah, justice at last, for all the times a student of mine didn't wash out a brush.
I haven't read it yet, nor do I know much about it, but "The Dance of Lifey Death" is still one of my favorite book titles ever writ.
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some wanker dropped 2,419 words of right wing religiopus babble on campbell's blog. it's no there noo, it's been shifted.
everybody else, thanks for commenting
I get the same thing over at my 'blog all the time as well--it's one of the reasons I screen comments.
Of course, if you want, I can get one of my Dionysian friends to drop 2,419 words of Bacchanalian blather in here instead--at least it'd be on-topic ;}P>
HO HO, Eddie!
Brilliant!
Ah, Edwin's stamp.
I consider it payback for announcing our engagement to our fellow 7yr old classmates during Show & Tell. A surprise to everyone, including wee hayley campbell.
wee hayley campbell!!!!
good to have you back. hope you enjoyd your trip to where the internet doesn't reach.
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