Southern Custom
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
Since I kind of work in a vacuum this may be something everyone else has already figured out but I thought I'd throw this out for opinions.
I was fighting every which way to keep ink in a finished piece recently. Wiping with paper, side of my hand, holding my tongue just right. All of it. And I kept getting shiny areas in my shading where ink just wouldn't hold.
So I started to think, why am I using a polished graver to make these cuts when a course edge would leave some "tooth" in the cut walls and therefore hold the ink better? I also switched to a 96deg to get a deeper shade line with a steeper wall, all with the hope for better ink holding qualities in my work. When I say course, I just mean "not polished", of course.
Anyone else go through this? I"d be happy to accept suggestions and you are free to call me a knucklehead if this was obvious to everyone but me and I just happened to miss the lesson.
Layne
I was fighting every which way to keep ink in a finished piece recently. Wiping with paper, side of my hand, holding my tongue just right. All of it. And I kept getting shiny areas in my shading where ink just wouldn't hold.
So I started to think, why am I using a polished graver to make these cuts when a course edge would leave some "tooth" in the cut walls and therefore hold the ink better? I also switched to a 96deg to get a deeper shade line with a steeper wall, all with the hope for better ink holding qualities in my work. When I say course, I just mean "not polished", of course.
Anyone else go through this? I"d be happy to accept suggestions and you are free to call me a knucklehead if this was obvious to everyone but me and I just happened to miss the lesson.
Layne