I've started to experiment with brusho as its a medium I'm basically entirely unfamiliar with apart from spilling it all over myself at A-Level and swearing off it. I think that because my picture book will be based much more on background and texture rather than my usual focus on character and foreground detail, brusho will be a good way to step out of my comfort zone and try something new. These are some initial tests trying to colour trees, and I think the bumpy irregular nature of this ink is suitable for presenting an unrefined, not over complex expression of nature. I'm mainly focusing on greens and purples to start with, as they are complimentary colours and also capture the contrast of greenery with the night sky, which is an aesthetic I want to utilise. I still think that the branches look kind of unnatural when drawn as I find it hard to capture the knots and twists in wood, so I'll have to find a way to get around that.
Some of my observational drawings using.biros and ink work quite well as they were done quickly an erratically, and trees are quite erratic looking as they twist and turn irregularly and don't seem to have any sort of pattern driving their look at all. This is what I find most interesting as they can be really expressive and I want to use this expressive aspect in my book.
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