Some Frightening First Steps

Because I didn't find anything to draw during my walk yesterday, I decided to sit in the break room and doodle. When I sat down, I noticed a rotating magazine rack containing a bunch of fashion magazines. It dawned on me that these magazines didn't contain anything I would ever want to read about, but they did have tons of models in various poses wearing lots of different styles of clothing. I flipped to a random page and attempted to draw what I saw with the ten or so minutes I had for break.

The result is kind of ugly - it looks more like some kind of monster than the model I was looking at. But I have a strong urge to keep going with this. I will be committing my breaks to drawing these random models to learn about portraits and figure drawing. Maybe I will have produced some cool portraits by the time the flowers make a return.

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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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