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Drawing is my best friend ever. He helped me so much and still today he helps me to stay calm. He has always been there for me, good and bad. Drawing for life and never, I'll stop drawing rather die.

Inspiration of the Virgen de Guadalupe & Louis Bourgeois spider

Overlapping chalk pastel circles

We are all out there in the digital world, no points of hiding anymore

Here's an ink illustration from my sketchbook. The only thing more terrifying than dying of the plague might be encountering a plague doctor. The type at the bottom says "A Black Sun Revolves Around You." It's been distorted and abstracted, but it's derived from letterforms.

These ones are about my darkest, pathetic thoughts. I'm really sorry that they're Turkish again :(

Digital piece, although I rather wish I'd have just sketched it down in pencil really!

This is a mixed media drawing. Used potato stamps, magazine cutout, black tape and pen liners.

Pen and Ink Doodles

First time posting, I love drawing pretty much anything, but new contemporary is my main thing,

Part a a series of Geometric Animal doodles.

Koi Fish Zentangle doodles

Pen and ink doodle drawing Koi fish

He is on the street walking... What is his name? I don't know. He is holding flowers and a black umbrella. Where is he going? I'm not quite sure. Maybe to somebody or maybe to somewhere. Made with Oil Pastels

There was a royal lineage in Europe that was so inbred that their jaws started getting really distended and weird. Like Jay Leno, but inbred. (I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.) Feel free to look up the Hapsburgs. I'll wait. The second picture is a Fiji mermaid and a merman. I think I want a merman tattoo. SMOLDER.

Music is my all time best friend

don't be able to see

Whimsical assortment of colors and doodles in a checkerboard pattern. Bordered in black and white boxes.

All the elements were drawn by hand, with Prismacolor markers used to create what would be vastly contrasting tones after b/w conversion. The composition and b/w conversion were done in Adobe Photoshop. © 2016 Joe Blend. All rights reserved

This is a black-and-white revision of an illustration I made (hand-drawn) for an American Red Cross e-newsletter years ago. The original was in color; however, considering my current work is predominantly black and white, I thought it appropriate to update the illustration for my portfolio. © 2007-2018 Joe Blend. All rights reserved.

Whimsical, abstract geometric design in black & white. First in the Funky Flowers in Black & White series. In sizes 6" x 8" to 16" x 20".

This unique black & white abstract design comes alive with gold, silver and bronze highlights. In sizes 6" x 8" to 16" x 20".

This 11" x 14" bold, dynamic, geometric abstract makes a unique statement. Lines and curves, angles and shapes in stark black and white convey the arbitrary, yet methodical . . . random, yet systematic nature of the universe . . . and our lives.

5" x 7" abstract geometric drawing.