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Ink and crayons on paper

Ian Dury - Blockhead. A hero of mine

Tried to challenge myself with an hour to get a portrait done.

This is an original acrylic painting. This is a collage of information meant to maximize the intensity of the calmness of the animal.

Weird shapey lady that wants to plant a forest.

Always ready! #currentmood

One of my first attempts with oil pastel

Continuing my soccer-themed pieces with a heavy slant towards Arsenal (COYG!). Overall happy with how this one came out.

Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft fanart

Pencil Sketch

Acrylic on paper format A4

Sketch

Charcoal Drawing

Acrylic on 10 x 10 in wrapped canvas

Canson paper A4 with oil pastel pencil

Doodles from my sketchpads during March. The coloured floral, has been doodled in black fine liner then overlaid with pastel pencils.

One of my favorite things about being a parent is listening to the stories my daughter makes up and really trying to encourage her imagination. She has named a bunch of the cacti which line our windowsills, while our cacti are very accustomed to their suburban lives they also like a bit of adventure, this is a group of them taking a family vacation to the desert.

She has been begging me for years and I’ve finally done it.

Graphite drawing I did a long time ago.

Pen & Ink on vintage paper.

In an attempt to be much more consistent with my drawing practice (and to tackle my insecurities about showing people my drawings) I am hoping that posting some of my sketches online will help keep me accountable. So day 1 sketch, I managed to find a very cheap used college set of Rotring Rapidograph pens online, when they arrived today I was delighted to see that they had NEVER been used! After a bit of a happy dance I got a couple of the pens assembled and started to figure out how they work. This is a quick sketch on tracing paper not that I was tracing anything I just need to invest in better paper with less tooth to be able to use these pens without having ink flow issues.

March 26 is Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness. This is one of many of my Sandwich Bags I’ve been doing since 2008.

Doodle done last year using a glass pen.

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Ink sprays and Micron pen