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Playing with some experimental media while drawing from life with my students last spring. Gearing up for new sessions in a couple weeks.

4th portrait from the collection “Women of the word”

Mending my own damn self. No clue who or how I'll be when I come back out.

Whimsical assortment of colors and doodles in a checkerboard pattern. Bordered in black and white boxes.

Second from „Women of the World „ Series .... Beautiful girl from the great city of Düsseldorf in Germany

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

First from the „ Women of the world "

I asked 13 Indian young adults, suffering from a mental health issue, what words do they wish to never hear again with respect to their mental health problem.These responses are words spoken by their colleagues, friends, or family members at some point or the other.

An Illustration born out of my love for rabbits! Drawn with pen & ink the bunnies are at home in their woodland environment!

Anxiety-Ridden Gnome with his trusted service log.

Micron pen and sharpie on bristol paper.

13 young, Indian adults, struggling with mental health issues, explained what colour represented her/his fear and which represented hope/happiness. The left half of the face has all the colours associated with fear, while the right shows hope/happiness.

What do you do when your apartment complex freshly paves the parking lot? Chalk doodles, of course!

This is an old OC of mine that I drew to experiment with gouache paint.

This 11" x 14" bold, dynamic, geometric abstract makes a unique statement. Lines and curves, angles and shapes in stark black and white convey the arbitrary, yet methodical . . . random, yet systematic nature of the universe . . . and our lives.

I feel like my drawings got a lot more dimensional and interesting once I was able to achieve variable line width. I love loading different colors into the pen and going HAM on paper that totally can't handle it. My sketchbooks crackle when I turn the pages. They buckle and heave and are exhausted from their tribulations.

© 2017 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork made by redacting words in a newspaper article to create a haiku. A contour drawing was added using white ink, to convey the meaning behind the haiku. The piece was scanned into Adobe Photoshop for small adjustments, to prepare for printing.

© 2017 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork made by redacting words in a newspaper article to create a haiku. A contour drawing was added using white ink, to convey the meaning behind the haiku (note: the word "the" was added by using semi-opaque tape to remove the word from a different newspaper article). The piece was scanned into Adobe Photoshop for small adjustments, to prepare for printing.

Illustration of my ideal living environment

This original mixed media design is rich with energy and movement. In sizes 6" x 8" to 16" x 20".

A few of my favorite pages from my sketchbook documenting my trip to China in the summer of 2017. An amazing and life changing experience.

Day 1: yourself. This is my personal project #DoodleWithRin365 that I am working now. It is a journey of self development in creativity and encourage myself to explore as many things as possible. I have focused a lot in detailed architecture last 2 years and really enjoyed those crazy detail lines. This year, I would like to explore something different. In this project, I decide on those themes by myself which will be included things I like and also things that I have never tried before but would like to know more. Back to my works here, I used Pilot new brush pen to completed the outline on my sketchbook and the wording with tablet. For second version, I used my real lipstick for lips :)

Goofing around with ink droppers and dogs. I was experimenting with this and he was the first one and I thought he looked fun.

This is a dragon animation. If you want to see the actual thing, go to this link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/195408941/#comments-86849692 all work is drawn by me.

This 11" x 14" bold, dynamic, geometric abstract makes a unique statement. Lines and curves, angles and shapes in stark black and white convey the arbitrary, yet methodical . . . random, yet systematic nature of the universe . . . and our lives.

This is a reindeer for Christmas which I drew. I experimented with cross-hatching with a ball-point pen. Merry Christmas!