Red Extractor (Pastel and marker over photocopied sketchbook drawing)
I'm getting ahead of myself with this Old Drawing, but the recent drawings of aloes reminded me of it. I drew it in pencil in an A4 sketchbook in the Sculpture Department of Newcastle University in 1999, half-way though my degree. The addition of colour came later, when I was playing around with reworking photocopies. There were, in fact, two extractors, which accounts for the extra hose.
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Love this. Reminds me of a whole mix of things - old phones with mouthpieces, Northumbrian Pipes, contraptions that seem to have a life of their own when we are not looking.....
I think we're reading from the same page.
Ben Katchor, a cartoonist whose work I respect and enjoy a lot, does his strips as basically reworked photocopies. He starts out with a script (his panels tend to be very wordy, sometimes leaving very little room for the character who is doing the talking or thinking) and then he does a sketch which he then transfers to illustration board. Then he adds the ink, including some very gentle washes. A link follows to his web page.
http://www.katchor.com/
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Bruce
Ooops, shoulda said up there that the transfer process to the illustration board is done with a photocopy machine, which allows him to shrink or enlarge the original sketch as he pleases.
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Bruce
Bruce - thanks. An interesting technique and I do miss having access to the office copier. The computer printer just isn't the same because the ink is soluble, but it does lend itself to a variation on Katchor's method.
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