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Sitting in my car waiting for my daughter, this is how I spend my time waiting! pen and ink on arches cold press cotton rag paper.

Whatever..

I love Alice in Wonderland and decided to do a couple of drawings. Sharpie, pen, pencil, and colored pencils were used on this.

It's not about waiting around for inspiration to strike, it's about showing up every single day -- and maybe something amazing happens that day, or maybe it doesnt...Regardless, Rise and Grind ♡

fountain pen ink and fineliner on Moleskine sketchbook paper

fineliner on Moleskine sketchbook paper

Skulls on pebbles with acryclic .. Pebble art..

I meant to just write on the front with my sharpie but I liked how smooth it felt on the CD sooo.... I doodled it!

Sunrise Flower, a flower hovering above the clouds. Made with a My-gel ballpoint pen and a sharpie marker.

Class demos in my "Sketching for Animators and Illustrators" class. The building in the foreground is a students sketch I xeroxed and went over with acrylics. This is about a half hour in. We also looked at brush-pen and watercolor. I'm doing a summer ve

EASL Costumed Figure Drawing night at Fullerton College last night. #easl #sketch #sketching #fullertoncollegeartdepartment #fullertoncollege #artmodel #lifedrawing #sketchbook #colorerase #costume #characterdesign #artcentercollegeofdesign #illustration

Plant explosion - here I transformed random doodles into painting

Some more blotch doodling for warm-up

Doodles on blotches - my favorite warm-up routine

keep rolling

explode

I have many forms of meditation, or at least a moment of total peace where mind is absolutely clear - and sketching is one of them!

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Line drawing of Medusa, one of my final pieces for my university projects. Done in fine liner.

'Thanks' postcard. Ink.

Ballpoint

Ballpoint and colored pencil

More experiments with gouache.

Experimenting with gouache.

Doodle with ballpen+vectorized+add colors

Playing with Word Art

Caricature

Passing time while on the plane.