illustration

Color pencil sketch filled in with Copic Marker and highlights with Uniball Signo gel pen. Drawing of Sailor Jupiter and her famous bento (with a fork because I’m awful :0 ).

peep the background

YlyaYod sketch 031, 2017 paper, ink, pencil 210 x 297 mm. N034

Pen and Ink; sepia

This drawing looks a bit like one of those "how are you feeling?" hospital charts. It starts out okay ("smiling cat", "drunk pirate"), and descends into full Lovecraftian Horror. I was driving toward a local town known for its unpleasant yokels, which probably explains the progression. Today, for the record, I'm 75% Apathetic Lumberjack, 5% glassy-eyed cat, and 20% Vampire Waluigi.

Music is my all time best friend

https://www.behance.net/gallery/60260485/DIY-Zine-2017

Doodling is fun

I wanted the eyes to look real and the rest of her to be more abstract. Made of shapes, patterns and colors. Inner shapes and forms that we see if we look at a person closely.

The first page in my Moleskine sketchbook. Lettering, doodle flowers and a vibrant green background. Coloured in with brush marker pens.

This is a bear who's also a bit of a bear. It's a very, very clever illustration, or so I felt at the time. Please let me have this one.

Third portrait from the collection "Women of the world"

Micron pen drawing

Original pencil sketch and final digital painting of some wacky underwater characters.

While driving through Florida, I came across a large flock of flamingos flogging a clown near swamp.

I like to make dreamcatchers and sell them at the market, and mandalas are like drawn dreamcatchers.

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.