Jim Bradshaw's Faves

Currently exploring image making with fountain pens: immediate mark making, no pencil, no eraser. I'm enjoying the discovery process and embracing the stray mark made with semi-blind contour and continuous line drawings.

Drew this for a friend who was deployed.

"Flying in the sky with a lady in its arms, The Platform's heading fast out to the farm. She was harmed unknowingly and now she will become a seed, From which the platforms now will feed until they breed." -- Drawn with fountain pens, colored with my iPad using Procreate.

Daily drawing (#221) of the Joe Rogan Podcast of the comedian, actor, podcast, writer and producer, Ari Shaffir. Pencil drawing and colored in Procreate.

Finally something new and fresh, again it was my first time to draw an animal with fur, which seemed always so difficult thing for me and still is, but now I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Kind of a style experiment. Took the elements from my 70's sci-fi book cover homage and remixed them in a more stylized, painterly way.

a little piece of my final project for the February mats bootcamp assignment

Furry pals :)

Drawing done with graphite pencils, loved the face expressions

That was a sketch a I made with graphitepencils, took me a time to get those beautiful eyes right :D

The Toast of the Town. Too bad the weather had to turn just when things were heating up.

Daily drawing (#306) of the Joe Rogan Podcast of the intellectual, logical thinker, Sam Harris. Pencil drawing and colored in Procreate. (Time lapse animation of color being applied can be seen here; https://www.instagram.com/p/Btm4QEhASw4/)

6x6in print of my "Homes," drawing

An illustration capturing the nostalgic feeling of getting your library book stamped.

Ballpoint pen drawing

The man with a vast red hat met a flower on the pad and asked, "Are you my dad?" The flower said, "No. I'm not the one, but I'll pretend I'm your dad if you'll pretend you're my sun."

I try to capture macigal mood of Monica Rathkes photo from Yellowstone

I miss grapefruit. Doesn't it just figure? The only medicine I take and it has to have that limitation. It could be worse. Stop whining Jim. At least you made it to the World Series of doodling. Well...in my mind anyway.

Daily drawing (#304) of the Joe Rogan Podcast of the drummer Travis Barker. Pencil drawing and colored in Procreate. (Time lapse animation of color being applied can be seen here; https://www.instagram.com/garybernardart/)

Daily drawing (#303) of the Joe Rogan Podcast of the comedian, Sebastian Maniscalco. Pencil drawing and colored in Procreate.

Original Spray paint and acrylic painting on 16x24 stretched canvas