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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Ice Skating Characters

A Competent Profile

As I start to become more familiar with proportions and measurements for the various faces I attempt to draw, I am starting to wonder how to make a more complete portrait with my limited time. Do I stick to lines? Do I bring a brush and some ink? Which lines should I include? Which shapes are important to represent? Maybe this is a good time to look at the work other artists have done and try to work out some of their methods.

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.

Rainbow Bisque

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