
Ink, 8″ x 10″
Tremble in fear! Feel the terror. I know, I know this is my scariest Inktober drawing yet.
Ink, 8″ x 10″
Tremble in fear! Feel the terror. I know, I know this is my scariest Inktober drawing yet.
Ink, 8″ x 10″
As mentioned previously the most difficult thing for me about daily drawing challenges is posting the work regularly. I have three days worth! Instead of making three separate posts I thought I would just put them together here. These are all Sktchy inspired drawings, like all of my other Inktober drawings this year. Read More
Ink, 8″ x 10″
This Inktober drawing is a vampiress from Sktchy. My Inktober drawings this week will have red ink in addition to the black and grey. This is the first of five. Things started melting a bit in the mouth because the grey and red are water soluble. I had to just let it be instead of trying to correct. It works for me, though.
Oh! This is exciting. There is a shop in Houston that sells art, crafts, jewelry, housewares, etc. by local artists and they announced an Inktober exhibition and party at the end of the month and I am one of the selected artists! Last year I did all my Inktober drawings in sketchbooks. This year I chose to do them all on separate papers with the hope that some of them could have a life outside of books on a shelf. A good choice, I think. It’s pretty cool to see them all together on the wall.
Platinum Carbon Ink in parallel pens, Grey and Red in Pentel Color Brush pens. Strathmore Bristol-smooth.
Ink and white-out, 8″ x 10″
More Inktober madness, inspired by Sktchy. I got carried away with the spatter and had to rescue it with my trusty white-out pen. That headdress was super fun to do.
I have decided to not do Inktober on the weekend. I’m short 2 days since I’ve done 5 drawings and today is the 7th. Yes, math skills for the win. Being behind was stressing me out earlier today and you know, it’s not worth being stressed out about a self-imposed drawing challenge. So expect a post every weekday in October, and if any happen on the weekend it’s a bonus. My revised goal is to complete 23.
Tomorrow will be one of very few days where I use the prompts. The prompt tomorrow is “star”.
Ink, 8″ x 10″
This drawing was supposed to be my Inktober day 4 but I didn’t finish in time. I’m calling it day 4 anyway and will try and get another done tonight so as not to be be short a day.
I have been working on Strathmore Bristol- smooth paper,
Read More
Ink, 8″ x 10″
A woman in a crow mask for Inktober, day 2. I spent a couple of hours on another drawing that just wasn’t working out the way I wanted. This one felt rushed because of it, especially the torso. That’s ok- I’m mostly pleased with it. Besides, I had to have something done for day 2! It’s too early to fall behind. The failed drawing still interests me so I’ll revisit it in a couple of days or maybe next week.
Materials: Pilot Parallel Pen with waterproof ink, Pentel Pocket Brush, Pentel Color brushes in grey and black, Speedball Super Black for the spatter. All on Strathmore Bristol- smooth. That is a lot of “P’s” in those pens! Now that I think of it my other 2 favorite tools are P’s also: PITT artist pens and Platinum Preppy fountain pens.
Ink, 6″ x 9″
This is a 1937 Morris, a car make I had never heard of until seeing this one. They were a British car manufacturer and were the creator of the Mini. The owner of this car drives it nearly every day, as long as it’s not raining.
Read More
Ink on paper, 6″ x 8″
It seems to me that every time I sit at my computer I do the same things: look at Facebook for far too long, check the weather, look at the news and email. An hour is gone and I probably didn’t even do the thing that I had intended to do in the first place.
Read More
Ink, 5″ x 8″
I participated in an art journal workshop last month called 30 Pages/30 Days. It was quite fun and helped reinforce the importance of a daily art practice. The drawing above is from Day 25.
Read More
Ink and coffee on watercolor paper, 5″ x 8″
“Ain’t No Wifey” was drawn in a Strathmore watercolor book. The inspiration for this drawing came from Sktchy. The sweet face, the leopard print coat, the hat and the cool little Vans shoes hooked me and I had to draw her. The foreshortening at this angle is tricky! Most of the line work was done with waterproof ink, and then I re-stated some of the marks with water-soluble ink where I wanted it to bleed. I created the tones and washes with a water brush loaded with coffee.