mixed media

Inktober2018day12-Whale. I’m using inktober to explore and improve my techniques. This time I wanted to try using more crosshatching. I’m happy with the result. Also, at first I had nothing for the whale prompt but it’s rewarding when you push through the dead space and a concept or idea comes to my head that I can be excited with.

A lot of times my pens take over, spilling out the inside of my brain onto the paper. Thankfully, it's not as gross as it sounds.

AUTUMN SUNSET

Ink and crayons on paper

An elephant walking alone

Summers and apples

Ink on mixed media paper

Pen and ink on mixed media paper

Watercolour and coloured pencil on watercolour paper.

Mixed media collage in progress.

WHALE

finished work, mixed media.

Colored pencil and ink on pastel paper.

30 x 40 cm / acrylics, oil + some splashes of nail polish on canvas

For the past two months ive been participating on the #drawthisinyourstyle challege at instagram. Here are some of the ones i made. Many more on my instagram account @mjdaluz_illustration

Inspired by my 90s nostalgia and the movie "Reality Bites"

"Faux-tanical" floral doodles in a vintage Beginning Norwegian text book.

Charcoal and iron oxide recovered from acid mine runoff on watercolor paepr

Was listening to ambient music and felt inspired to doodle this blue girl.

Mixed media (pretty much every type of pen/marker I have is in these somewhere). Recovering from surgery last month, slowly learning to sit upright again, thinking about flowers. :)

Calico kitty in my sketchbook

Trees at the end of the driveway, with marker and colored pencil.

Page 18 of my Journey Journal. A study of my first impressions of the city of Berlin. Ink, gouache, watercolour on toned paper.

An ink and pencil drawing of a tiger.