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really getting into sketching with value, trying to learn different ways to use value

Christmas comes stomping in

I've been working on boring portrait studies in hopes to make my work better and hopefully at one point hire-able.

Finding shapes in watercolour spots in my sketchbook.

Finding shapes in watercolour spots

WHALE was one of the topics for Inktober 2018

yes i am

Graphite and carbon pencils, 2018

The idea for this portrait came to me when I was looking at a packaging of soap - it was very glossy and it looked like it could look like pearls. As well as the soap packaging, I used white ink mixed with acrylic paint (for opacity) on black paper.

Quick pattern made with white ink on black paper. It reminds me of the texture of a feather

Sketch of my fabric scissors.

Happy Halloween: Illustration of Wendy Torrance from The Shining. Technique: Markers & some digital edition Paper: my notebook Tilibra, couché, 150 g/m

Gel pens and calligraphy pens on 9 x 12 in. sketchbook paper.

For Inktober 25, I played around with a rainbow rubber stamp and markers. Simple but it was a lot of fun! And isn't Inktober all about experimentation and practise?

Using diluted black India ink and a brush.

Two girls I doodled some time ago, and now turned into these two pages in one of my journals

These are just a few of my own Handmade Journals I love to work in.

Drawn with a Lamy fountain pen F nib.

I try to do my Yoga Practice every morning, but I still am not as flexible and good as my little drawn Yogi's, ^_^.

This page, in one of my own handmade journals, I made after my surgery for Colon Cancer. And I get a lot of comfort from Yana, my sweet cat.

India ink on tissue paper. I had never used ink on this kind of paper before; I really liked the results! There are some folds and wrinkles on the paper that give the pattern some interesting details. The paper is also super absorbing, which plays nicely with the quantities of ink. Since it's very thin, there can easily be overlays between textures. And finally, when trying to use less ink (so that it wouldn't seep through and cause a big dot - the absorbing quality is nice, but it was also somewhat of a challenge!) I used very little ink on the lettering, causing a scratchy, dry look.

Ink on paper.