Three Colors Challenge

I was anticipating some "waiting around time" today, so I decided to pack some extra drawing supplies. I usually do all of the drawing in the field and color when I get home, but today I brought three watercolor pencils - red, yellow and blue. I stood leaning against my car in a hot parking lot while trying to capture my surroundings with a strict 10 minute time-limit. The colors were applied directly afterward, while they were fresh in my mind.

I don't have much familiarity trying to draw buildings. It was difficult to focus with so much visual information right in front of me. I wanted to get up closer and draw some of the interesting windows and stains of the faraway buildings. That must be a good sign.

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Drawloween (at my own pace) - Pumpkins

Inktober Day 3 - "Bait"

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.

Horse in Ink and Brush

Based on a toy horse I use for reference. I don't have a lot of experience with ink and brush - but I thought tonight would be a great time to just play around and try something new. Without the pressure of creating a masterpiece, I went to work immediately. I think I may have mixed too much water into my ink for this one. I really like some of the lines and relationships here. The proportions are pretty messed up, but this may be the closest I've come to getting a horse to look like a horse. I'll probably do more with ink and brush soon.

Rainbow Bisque

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