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Almost finished watercolor pup

We had our yearly meeting (via Skype this year, rather than in person) with our financial adviser. It was an hour spent drawing this giraffe during the call. She's referenced from an on-line photo.

i use watercolour pencils for this drawings, turn out really good

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Colored pencil drawing of pomegranates "in progress." Prismacolor and Verithin pencils with some fine lines done with Tombow Irojiten pencils. I like the harder colored pencils for fine detail, but the blending of high wax and oil pencils can't be beat for blending.

Watercolor practice

"My parents told me angels aren't real. I used to believe them, but then I SAW YOU."

Oil on linen

Done for a friend with a macaw, this is a pencil drawing. HB and 2B

A few days ago, I started a Pigma Micron pen 005 drawing of a tiger. Yesterday, I decided that it would be nice with colored pencil. I used Berol (1990's) Prismacolor, Koh-I-Noor Polycolor, Faber-Castell Polychromes colored pencils.

Sharpie pen (fine) on white paper • #luck #raven #threeeyedraven

A sketch of a friends baby they call him Chicken Nugget

Character design for ship's boatswain.

A silly frog to end the month. Prismacolor pencils on a tinted pastel paper.

Pencil in my sketchbook.

In the process of developing the next "Bird, tree, card" painting. Building off the root sketch and incorporating a harpy eagle. Which heard of but never really "looked at before... and wow. They are beautiful, huge and so odd.