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Acrylic on paper

Watercolour and a bit of coloured pencil on watercolour paper.

sketchbook

THE BOOK from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory. "THE WOMAN RETURNS FROM THE STORE WITH AN armload of books. She reads them quickly, one by one, over the course of the next few weeks. But when she opens the last one, the woman frowns in surprise. All the pages in the book are blank. Every single one. The woman takes the book back to the store, but the manager won’t let her return it. Right there on the cover, the manager says, This book has no words and is non-returnable." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf61DnhO1NL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Or the weekend begins, whichever you choose. Acrylic painting on matchbook with watercolor + doodled background size 4 x 6 inches.

Even my food is snarled. https://www.instagram.com/p/CeoZoGUu8EH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

procreate sketch. trying to get outside my comfort zone by learning to draw better characters

SteveO with his arms up. An old ballpoint pen sketch from several years ago. Red Bic pen layer converted to black and white.

Elf character design by @ilustratiks

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

Watercolour and pencil crayons on watercolour paper

done with magic pencils

Being a woman itself is a superpower. Remember, you matter regardless of your age, appearance, color, gender, religion, sexuality. #BreakTheBias and make your dreams come true! Happy International Women's Day! #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2022 #IWD2022 #IWD

An automatic drawing, everything is out of my head with only the briefest idea of a story line. I played around with shapes and lines and shading to see what affect would result. It was fun, but time consuming.

Watercolour and pencil crayon on watercolour paper.

Composition exploration sketch for a 2,5x1m line art illustration on canvas. 2019

Morning yoga. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZILyI5pn1A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

lavender in calligraphy lettering.....do check out y wrks on instagram @color.rapids

A cat under a hat. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYCwVwsBqEB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I hope everyone enjoys a safe holiday season. Here’s a grumpy Christmas cat giving the obligatory middle finger to omicron!

Paints and pencils doodle characters.

I modified the challenge a wee bit. I didn't use the same paper for the various drawings since I was using (top row, left to right) hard graphite pencils (3H to HB), watercolor pencils, (bottom row, left to right) brush pens and ballpoint pen. These media work best on very different paper textures and moisture absorbing qualities. The second picture shows the object of my study --- and the apparatus I use to hold botanical subjects. "Third hand" tools are very useful and cheap. This one was under $10 and serves my purposes well. Just FYI. (Each drawing/painting was scanned and composited in Photoshop.)

Pencil drawing