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It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle ~ Norman Schwarzkopf . When the battle goes outer space and you are the only left ⚔️

A quick drawing to symbolize spring time that was drawn with pencil and edited digitally with color.I present to you....bird with cute hairdo.

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.

All the faces above have the same blot or cloud as a base. When I am sick of the faces I draw automatically, I make a nice, oddly shaped blot and then look for faces (or whatever) within it. This time I did it digitally so I could see how many different faces I could get out of the same cloud. This time I stopped at thirteen, but I am sure there is more.

Markers and ink in a sketchbook for The Sketchbookproject

A silly watercolor sketch, I know, but there's a lot tied to this little thing. There are so many bittersweet feelings lately. I tend to avoid putting a numerical value to time, I don't like the count-down aspect to things, especially knowing how obsessive I can be with that. It allows me to live in some semblance of ignorance (they say ignorance is pure bliss). There's a lot of tip-toeing around what I want to say and what I'm afraid to say, or even what I'd love to explore and embrace and simply afraid to. It's something I'm not used to. It's taken me quite a while to finally sit with certain things, or even acknowledge them, and it feels like there's so much more I'm now realizing. It's odd to be so frank to some and worried that others may find out. There's a lot of shifting again, goodbyes coming soon, complicated feelings and situations.

Little 4x4 inch marshmallow painting on Masonite board. Check out the time lapse on my Instagram page.

Page of a sketchbook for The Sketchbookproject. Done with ink liner and markers.

I wanted to challenge myself with a different type of drawing without spending too much time on it. I am pretty satisfied with the results. It came out looking a lot more disgusting than I intended but it still works. lol Done in Graphite and Watercolor.

Acrylic on canvas 40x60 cm

This is a little collage (did you know Maxfield Parrish invented collage, not Picasso?) of a characters from one of my children's books. I wondered if this would inspire a book. Not yet.

A Rapidograph inked portrait of a friend, from a photo.

A quick watercolour sketch of Cwm Berwyn Forest. Well worth doing as I have a much better idea of what to do and what not to do for the final piece.

Just some random drawings I decided to do today.

Gouache doodle and Photoshop composite.

Candlelit Cake drawn in Crayola crayon.

Illustration of street performers based on antique photo (https://phono-optica.tumblr.com/post/90103610273)

digital sketch

Illustration from the sketchbook in gouache, based on a color palette.

Finally finished this one. 2021, Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on 9” x 12” Archival paper. Model: Malik_E

Office, Consciousness, part 1, ink on paper.

After a Loish painting, doodles done while procrastinating :)

Double sketchbook page using Posca pens and a Moleskine sketchbook.

Naomi grooving and swaying to some classic blues by Johny Hartman. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on Archival 9" x 12" paper

"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NABRE)

Odinel Pierre

Sadness

Acrylic painting, canvas, size 50cm x 70cm. I found a painting of Lady Justice online and I tried to capture it on canvas.