Al Fresco Art Club Challenge, Feb 23, 2020 --Copying a Moebius Masterpiece

The club met indoors again, but the first signs of Spring are here. There are honeybees rummaging through the lavender blossoms of the rosemary bush, with a few hummingbirds cruising through the yard now and then. The stink bugs are back — I don’t know how they survive our winters — and the squirrels are fighting ferocious battles on the roofs and in the treetops. All of these signs mean that winter is fading and our chances of actually meeting outside in the fresh air are increasing every week.

For the challenge of copying a master, I copied a cell from Moebius’ masterpieceThe World of Edena. I started by sketching in pencil, then inked a fine liner, then scanned the inked page, which I re-inked in Clip Studio Paint using a custom mono line brushes based on my Rotring Isograph technical ink pens. I set the ink layer to be a reference layer and used the bucket for coloring. There were quite a few vacant areas that I had to color manually.