Scott Ries' Faves

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.

Simple line art elephants

Acrylic on 9 x 12 canvas

Acrylic on 5 x 7 canvas

First attempt at dotted style. From a photo of a famous French cartoonist.

I can't find my old dip pen nib, but I have found sumi ink and some markers from the 90s that still work (wow, but so fumey).

My fave cleaver wielding red head

Actually unrelated to the virus, this was an idea I’ve had for a while about how our neglect for our planet affects future generations.