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From Sketch to Final Water Coloring Stages, this is a spread from Tide Day! A lot goes into making a good composition, taking into account the center of the image where the binding is, and how to play with size and negative space. One of my favorite things to do is explore contrasting expressions between characters and highlight their emotions through physical stances and expressions. This was a tough challenge with the lack of limbs and the watery context, but Pearl's stubbornness and attitude shines through!

This sketch is of my favourite junk art yard in Porthleven (where I currently live)- called Wreckers Studio. Not often you get to see a mermaid riding a horse...

One of commissioned project of watercolor illustration for bridesmaid's attire guide.

Pencil with digital color. This is character development for a book + coloring book I'm working on. Reed is also my mascot for the time being. Patreon link to the project is in my profile.

5th. portrait from the collection “Women of the world”

I go to meetings, therefore I doodle. This small collection is just tip of the iceberg ...

A Lunar Chinese New Year Entry - 2018 its the year of dog! Woof Woof~

This project consist of 3 different gouache/ watercolor paintings with pencil details on top. I actually made these for a specific purpose, but I made make more, since I really enjoyed making it!

Part of the drawing a day challenge - March 17

For the love of pebbles.

Simple black line work, on top of a bit of watercolor, because you always need a pretty watercolor background.

YlyaYod_sketch 027, 2017 paper, ink, pencil 210 x 297 mm. N027_600 x 800 px

The outskirts of a ruined city.

This is one of many people that I will be using in my Senior Thesis animation project. My project is to create an interactive piece that is aimed for teaching young underrepresented minorities and girls the design process for a robot. :)

YlyaYod_sketch 026, 2017 paper, ink, pencil 210 x 297 mm. N026_600 x 800 px

Mashup of geometric patterns and some organic shapes.

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

One of my original pen and ink drawings. Drawn on nice cotton paper with a laid finish.. The piece measures 5" Wide X 8" Tall Signed and Titled.

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.

The influence of the moon, drawn and painted with gouache and digitally retouched

An Inktober piece I did of Toni Toni Chopper

Inspired by nature. Background layer of the pages are covered by Greenpeace's newsletter papers and used mixed technique with acrylic, ecoline and markers.

28/06/17 - one example of June - one drawing a day challenge - all of June's drawings include a rock/pop star of my choosing and a little feathered friend. Check out more at www.martinvarennescooke.com

Poor, poor abused paper! Lots of fun to be had, though.

© 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.

Funnest person to draw. Love her

I did this one to practice my pencil work and to improve on drawing realism. I used a reference photo from one of my favorite magazines, Inked, I removed the other tattoos on the model except for the beautiful rose tattoo.