Layers and Layers

I attempted to use a Copic marker for today's study. I don't have a lot of experience with these things - I bought one on a whim just to try it out. I was having a lot of trouble at first - but as soon as I got a hang of things, I really appreciated the way the marker covered large areas with tone. With the marker, I could create shadows much more quickly than the mechanical pencil I have been using. I may not have nailed down the fine details, but I can see using this to create some great value studies.

The urge to paint is getting stronger. I mixed up some colors and messed around with some brush strokes today. There seems to be a mouse that needs painting...

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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.

The World of the Small

Drawing and painting small objects is a lot of fun. There are a lot of details that one doesn't really pick up on when an object is viewed from afar. Small things, by virtue of their size, are always viewed this way. As far as the painting itself, it was fun to get some use out of my tiny brushes.

Rainbow Bisque

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