Hi Paul
It's mostly in the pen choice. I did a colour mask on the one ring image (although the servo kept resetting for some reason). The base of the ring picture is done with a fine yellow sharpie marker, so it's quite a thick line. The vector was in a 0.5mm gel pen.
The other 2 pictures were done in cmyk gel ink pens (artline softline 0.7mm for the colours, and a cheap chinese 0.5mm for black). I had the pen width set to 0.2mm. There is no mask, and the drawings were comprised of one single line per colour. As mentioned, the block size is 25. The draw order was YMCK per the recommendations on this very forum 🙂
For the SR71 jet, I experimented using the variable height drawing style for the black pen, but used the standard variable frequency style for the colours. In the kid pic, they are all variable frequency.
I also tried to reproduce the kid pic using a CMYK norwegian image... It took 2 days to draw, but the black totally ruined the picture. I even offset the black. I might try a CMY only version.
The paper I am using is 110gsm cartridge paper, A4 size.
TBH, I am totally sold on gel pens. Very fine and sharp lines with little pen pressure, and no bleed or drying out. The colours are normally very vivid. The only catch is when they run out of ink, they stop with no warning. You need to monitor the ink level in the pen. And they're quire pricey for good ones!
To combat pen drift, I am using some packing foam cut to suit the barrel of my gondola. I have a hole poked in the middle, and it holds the pen quite firmly with little drift or shake. I also use a slow motor speed (only set to 300 with 200 accel).
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