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Inktober Day 4 sketch. No prompts. No, you didn't miss Day 3. There was a lot of bleed-through that messed up the sketch. It happens.

No prompts for me this year. I'm just drawing 31 animal portraits in ballpoint pen.

Fun dino on a bike. Go get em Rex.

Things went horribly wrong with her teeth, but otherwise i think i captured the essence of marlo thomas' character ann marie.

Squiggles and wiggles from the weekend. India ink and Posca pen in Moleskine 8.25x11.75 sketchbook.

in the streets of Nice, looking up

This is a drawing of the plant: Bromeliad regalia done with Copic markers and colored pencils.

11x14 acrylic on wood. Thanks for looking.

Charcoal and Graphite

THE SHIELD from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory. "And the remembrance of that place seems to spur him on, and suddenly he’s picking up the pace. Suddenly he’s jogging down the middle of the road, and then he breaks into a run. And then he’s running as fast as he can, and it feels like he’s about to take off. By the time the man gets to the cheap side of town, he’s never felt so good in his life. And he blows right by that dingy apartment and off into wide open space." https://www.instagram.com/p/CguFREoucBj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Rat Sketch Study

Practice practice practice

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The clutter on my drawing table.. I tend to use pencils the most, with pens a close second and sometimes brushes. This is the neat look---when everything is put away in its box. More often than not, they are a bit more scattered on the surface. Micron pen drawing.

Meadhbh standing in front of a green wall. Simplified her hair and the leaves in the background a bit. Charcoal and pastel pencils on 9” x 12” Strathmore archival sketchbook paper, scanned into Photoshop. Model: Meadhbh

#sketchadayapp Prompt DISH Look at this tasty dish they left out for me. #sketchbookapp #sketchbook #dish #rat #digitalart #softpastel #colouredpencil

Another little practice run - drawings from my head with no sketching beforehand. A bit risky, but results can astonish.

Experimenting with things from my sketchbook and digital way to glue everything together

ink on paper, abstract art, automatism

Around The World

I’ve been going through a bit of an art slump lately, but I finally got myself to pick up the pencil and finish this. My reference photo was a bit grainy so had some trouble with that, but overall I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. Done in graphite, drawing itself is about 5x6 in

Casey the Puppet. This painting captures the essence of a puppet lots of older Canadians will remember. A strange genderless creature with a dog puppet companion. A puppet with an outspoken personality that I remember as a kid wondering how it got away with saying what it did. The painting has a Canadian stamp to commemorate the puppet's roots.

I tend to use line art a lot and did this in Procreate to practice breaking free. It was gonna be a T-Rex per my son’s request but it evolved into a squirrel-like creature. Still made the T-Rex too later.

Once again playing with shapes, colours, marks, and loads of squiggly, smudgy ink lines. No pressure. Just trying to get back into splashing around with paint and seeing what emerges.

Digital sketch of a skeleton key, to take you anywhere in a mysterious house.

A single yellow lily drawn in crayon.