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First illustration of Tehuacan tetra, Astyanax tehuacanensis that is endemic to the Río Salado (Gulf of Mexico versant), south of Tehuacán, Puebla, and part of Oaxaca, Mexico. Technic: mixed media (graphite and digital color).

Graphite pencil drawing of a ginger tomcat named Bruno

I hate drawing hair

This is a graphite pencil drawing of a hunting hawk somewhat loosely based on a photo. The reference photo is from: Birds of Prey by Paul D. Frost (Paragon Books Ltd 2006) and credited to Martin B Withers/FLPA. I found the book in the Goodwill a couple of month ago and was much inspired by the beautiful photographs.

Two hour sketch that will be presented in my first personal exhibition ❤

A lighthouse drawn with graphite pencils on sketch paper. Many thanks for looking.

Pencil Eye Study

Graphite drawing of an elephant

Drawing done with graphite pencils, loved the face expressions

Just for fun!

A5 color pencil and graphite drawing ... whimisical black and white charcoal drawing with a splash of color

Graphite drawing of my grand parents in cape breton nova scotia around the year 1956.

Charcoal and Graphite/Stephen Gammell Inspired

Done in Graphite and Charcoal, Inspired by Stephen Gammell

Baby steps toward portraits! So I started with 4 different hair styles. Let me know what you think. Where do I need improvement?

An illustration for a Grimm's Fairy Tale in a Moleskine notebook. This one is for a kind of obscure story called The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse. Just graphite.

The carriage is actually from a reference photo of a old hearse from way back so I thought that was really cool. Created with Black ink, Charcoal Powder Graphite Powder and a Kneaded eraser.

The name "Mokumokuren" literally means "many eyes" or "continuous eyes". The Mokumokuren is considered by the Japanese to be one of the traditional inhabitants of haunted houses. The only way to remove the spirit from the wall is to patch up the holes in it.

Fun with pencil. I use a 9H pencil to carve images into the paper and then a B pencil to draw over them, giving the drawings the feeling of textures.

Fun with the pencil.

discs

This is an image I used for a poetry book.

Chromatography is used in chemistry to dissolve a mixture and place it into a "mobile phase," which allows the solvent to carry it and its components up the paper. It shows the layers, exposing deeper, hidden tones and colors, something only seen when a solvent of the same polarity is used. It's odd. Life feels a bit like that, and I'm seeing the colors separate for the first time. It's all there, everything that's been hidden in the inky mess for the past however many years. And now it's smeared. Bold. Clear. But blurry. What's on me and what's on you? Where do we go from here?

Black and white, graphite (pencil), drawing.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

A mouse walking to a friend's house in winter to deliver a gift. Graphite and water soluble graphite on cardstock

Astronaut on Moon. From my small sketchbook. Graphite pencil on paper, size 14cm x 14cm.

I drew based on a photo. It became a little darker than the original. I drew as an exercise. Tools: Derwent graphite pencils ; Paper size: A3

One of the scariest characters I've ever seen. The most frightening of the vampires from the movie "Fright Night" (1985). I had to draw her as a form of therapy. Thumbs-up for the art department on that movie! If she had had white eyes instead of the red eyes in the movie, I would've been irreparably damaged! :) (Pencil on paper, size A4).