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Both freehand and guided mandala artwork

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. 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.

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.

A Zentangled Fearie sketch I've been working on for a bit in my sketchbook. I can't wait to finally finish her! It's been fun doing all the little details.

Ink on paper.

This panda wants to go fishing. 5"x7" ink and watercolor on Strathmore mixed media paper.

Watercolor.

poured paint

Inktober 2017 Day 21

Sketchbook. Coffee and Ink. 2017 Ink, coffee and cuts out.

A room #teeming with cats

I used to play my grandfather at chess through the mail and he kept all of my envelopes

Spool + Doodle = Spoodle. freehand doodles on a giant recycled wooden spool

Yummy!!

She knows all about Autumn. Inktober #1

A swift flying swift for inktober

When I can't think what to draw, I go for graceful symbols and hang lines and other things on them.