etching

That wraps up May, almost!

Soft materials (charcoal, sepia and red chalk)

Large mouth on a lay down

This is a little practice run with faces, all drawn from my head without sketching in pencil first.

The red Bic pen layer converted to black and white. Model: Imani

3D Drawing - Hand

Sketching for fun on a scrap piece of paper, while my daughter was getting her hair artistically colored and cut.

Some sketches from my sketchbook #8

Here's something I drew in 10 minutes this morning. I was on call waiting for work to start and my anxiety went through the roof. Not sure why, but it did. My friend asked me if this sketch was a sound, what would it be? I said static. That's what things feel like most of the time: all-consuming, loud, abrasive static.

Done using color pencils on an A4 sheet.

Winter gallery

Inktober Day 14 castle

Sketching Riccardo Muti at a Chicago Symphony rehearsal. Then the music took me away!

For the last day of Inktober, I drew a pumpkin with black india ink on orange paper. I had never done an Inktober challenge before, and I really liked it! I'm definitely doing it next year, too. I got very good ideas for new projects, I played with different textures and colours, and I used a calligraphic pen to draw, which I had never done before and which I loved.

Have nothing new to post, so a repost. 2021, Ballpoint Pen on 9” x 12” Archival paper. Model: Amy_D

For day 27 I made a very diluted India ink wash and painted a cityscape at night with white ink over it. I like how it turned out! Naïve and quirky.

Using diluted black India ink and a brush.

Patternz - series 2 - May 2018

100 heads challenge #11-20. Ballpoint pens

Roller Blades / Rain Boots / Weeds / Flowers

Jungle sharks!

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Meadhbh with her long wild red hair all over the place. 2023, 5” x 8,” Ballpoint Pen on Moleskine Sketchbook.