Now my twitter isnt exactly what youd call professional, it's very personal and I don't use it to springboard my work. I've had it for a long time so have a fair few followers too, I have thought about starting a new one for my practice but for the time being I have kept it to myself.
One of the people I contacted was @_Picolo, Gabriel Picolo who is a freelance illustrator. He is in my bookmark tab of artists that I like, although his practice isn't massively developed yet he still makes work that he loves and that is appreciated by a wide audience (instagram, deviantart and twitter).
I love how he uses ink, especially now it's something I'm thinking of going back to using. He specialises in comic book drawing work, but in his free time does a lot of characterisation of popular characters (such as Raven and BeastBoy from Teen Titans or Harry Potter work). His work is actually 50/50 digital and manual. Sometimes he uses ink and sometimes he uses pens. On his instagram he expressed his excitement at getting a new photoshop brush pack. As I am personally interested in developing my comic book work it seemed like a good idea to contact him, as I haven't had a lot of luck in the past with emailing people (Out Of Order I emailed around 25 and got replies from 2 ) I thought contacting him over social media was the best bet.
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His reply was quick (same day) and helpful as the clip studio brush set has a lot of different brushes in it, the ink ones were the ones I was interested in. Being able to contact someone about how good they were was helpful. They currently sit at $49 to buy, which sounds like a lot but I am looking for a good ink brush set. I currently have Kyles Ultimate Megaback Brushes (courtesy of a lovely friend who let me download them for free) which are good but I struggle with the inks as they are a little difficult to get my head around.
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