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Pen and ink on toned gray paper

Channelling Joan Miro (as usual)...

Yesterday's (Sunday) morning project.

The word “backwards” in reverse would sound, I’m fairly certain, like something along the lines of ‘straw cab’ I’m presuming? Anyway, that was what randomly prompted me today to get cracking on with some art, heheheh.

I doodled these mountains last night (Tuesday) while drinking a Modelo. It was great.

I finally got back to a non-digital pen for a little while. Working on a few mountains right now for a project.

This sweet cowboy loves to offer flowers to strangers.

I just got home from skiing in Beaver Creek and had lots of airport and airplane time so I made this piece.

I've been working on portraits so much that it's taken up most of my drawing time. I miss the simpler things like trees and mountains so today at lunch I drew this tree.

Here's a sketch of the Osprey Pens Pen Factory, drawn with an Osprey Milano 5.5 Flexpert Hourglass nib using Noodlers Black Ink. Great pen!

Twinkle, a beautiful ginger tabby.

marker + fine liner flowers arranged digitally

Finished full version of an image I did in three parts, adding to it to create three separate images.

A value study I did with my friend for practice. Based on a D&D picture we found online. First time using different shades of markers, so it isn't the cleanest piece when looking at it up close.

Pencil sketches of animal photos online for practice.

Commission portrait. Gorgeous tabby cat. Drawn in black and white line using fineliner's.

Loving the tombow monoline markers

A bazillion little round circles and almost as many lines and it still looks static. Sheesh. I'll be working this idea to DEATH over the next few days....

Digital is great -- for composition and color. But for line art? I don't think I can ever give up the fountain pen. This was drawn with a Sailor King of Pen (M) and Sailor 1911L (EF) fountain pens using Pilot Black ink. Yes, sacrilege. Pilot ink in a Sailor. But I have some Kiwa Guro arriving soon!

I drew these guys with a Pilot Custom 823 FA and Platinum Carbon Black ink. The FA nib has a good drawing width on watercolor paper - one of my favorites. It's a soft nib but I don't use the line variation, just some nice shock absorption with each downstroke. The Carbon Black ink is out-of-this-world good, though being pigmented I fear keeping it in too many pens.

Using 0.03, 0.1 and 0.5 Copic fineliners on A4 Bristol board. 30 hour piece.

Tasteful isolation.

Fun fact: This, some 34 years ago, nearly became the title of Pixar’s first short “The Adventures Of André & Wally B.”. You learn something new every day folks...

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One for all those Inktober folks out there! Rest assured, despite what the verses say here, you're as mad as march hares in the best way possible. :)

The product of killing time with some beer, wings and of course, doodling away.

So, I really wasn't going to participate in inktober this year because of time constraints. But I saw some simple line art stuff from others that looked fun. I'll see how far I can make it this year.