Rainbow Bisque

 

AKA, "The time I drew a dog way too many times". My concept for this one was, "what if a Dalmation, but with Zebra stripes?" I got to use a fun, new pen and test out some red ink - so I wouldn't call it a complete waste of time. I spent a lot of that time drawing and erasing the dog over and over again. I'm not completely satisfied with the end result - but I am happy I ended up with something. I want to keep drawing. I want to keep challenging myself. I want to get better.

Tried working with the blue ink that's been sitting on my art supply shelf for way too long. I actually like how this one turned out. In the bottom right corner, there's a big splotch where I accidentally dropped my brush. Luckily, it missed the rest of the drawing.

Old school pen and ink. I haven't used a crow quill pen since high school - and, even then, I remember struggling to get it to work. This time, I thought I would try to create something using only cross-hatching. The prompt word today is "bait". This word took me into a lot of different ideas, but the one I ultimately landed on is based on the will-o-wisp. In my head, I imagined glowing orbs in front of a copse of swamp trees all created with layers of cross-hatching. Things had to be scaled back a bit. There are still two trees in the background if you look hard enough. Success? Sort of. It forced me to use a different kind of pen and, in doing so, made me want to keep going and get better with it.