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Pen and ink for a prompt during Inktober

It seems like most people I know these days are starting families, so I figured I'd respond in the way I know best...

A tribute to The Fall and the genius of Mark E. Smith. Not much I can really add to that!

I uploaded a version of this that I felt was kind of a throwaway. Just dinking around and trying to get a feel for techniques. In the end, while I was happy with what I learned, I didn't think much of it as far as a completed work goes. But I couldn't leave it alone so I took about another hour and fixed what I felt could be fixed short of starting from scratch. Because it's a process, right?

So much going on in this, but it was really fun to draw.

Mixed Media. Sketchbook drawing of one of my family's new kittens.

Postcards of my work, mostly from the last two years. Available at https://www.gouacheandink.com/ :)

Landschaftpark Duisburg-Nord, Germany. This abandoned steel mill is transformed into a industrial heritage centre and landscape park. It's a great location for photographers and urban sketchers.

Ikebana 1

My soul has been severed in two, like Yin and Yang, these parts interlace. Only both are beast.

Continuing my prolific streak as of late, because why not?

Wednesday wind-down time! Took a wander to my local coffee shop and came back with this. A job well done I’d say :)

This is a self-portrait. I didn't use a mirror or a picture here. This is what I look like in my own memories. It's a bit misleading, I think I am skinnier than the drawing suggests, but that doesn't feel like me. I have been overweight for years and I feel like I am too skinny at the moment. I feel like I should be curvier like in the drawing. This is about body-image, body-dysmorphia even. I do have those clothes, glasses and haircut. This work is pastel on paper (it's quite big, but I don't have a measure closeby)

It all started with a simple doodle, as it so often does. Now I think I’m going to make stickers and/or a shirt.

It gets weird in Bleu's world most times, and for that I regret absolutely nothing.

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Refers to my blog post here: https://michaelkellywords.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/a-strangely-digital-unflattening/

Unoriginal art piece done with ink and sharpie.

Visual jamming, nothing new here! Also, hello February.

Going into the unknown, You are not alone

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Inspired by the false mother suspiriorum, this wretched monster oozes pus and wreaks of death. She seduces those with weak will and eats their flesh.

Sketchbook page from a few days ago. One of my rules for this sketchbook is that all entries have to be full page spreads of intricate drawing studies. All drawn freehand! Drawin’ err day over here!