pen and ink

Seemingly trapped indoors and inside your head indefinitely, the possibility of living a normal life after COVID seems like a fevered dream. Still one of my favourite drawings from 2020 and a technique breakthrough. Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper

"Hold your head up, you silly girl. Look what you've done. When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you, silly girl." Frustration, frustration, and the anxiety that goes hand-in-hand with it. It's hard to let these things go.

Om nom nom nom

The one subject that I don’t like to draw, so I have to force myself to draw them. Whenever I do draw them, they end up looking weird.

Ballpoint pen drawing on a recycled book.

Based off a broken statue, my proportions are a bit funky but nice to see practice paying off, no way could I have drawn this last year :)

Old drawing(I was 22...) pen and ink on paper

haha oops, i accidentally uploaded a sideways pic! oh well! Fully coloured illustration on my instagram acct https://www.instagram.com/jim_bryson/

5" x 7" ink on paper

Noodlers Ink - Fountain Pen

One of my original pen and ink drawings. Drawn on nice cotton paper with a laid finish.. The piece measures 4" Wide X 6 1/2" Tall Signed and Titled. Comes packaged with care and a tracking number.

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.

Scribbling with my eyes closed.. and then creating an image out of the scribbles.

This pen and ink drawing is in a poetry book.

"There's a North in us all, but my North can't hold me anymore." Oh man, what a day/week/month it's been. Today was the end of first semester, a bit hard to believe half the year is gone, a bit hard to believe we still have half of a year left. The past 24 hours have been nothing less than mental chaos (maybe my coach was foreshadowing all of this when he asked if I was ok last night...) Anyway, here I am, here we are. Llemette on the left (name credit to Josefina), February journal on the right.

She is a shop manager of a Chinese herbal clinic :)

I would have to say that my headphones are my constant companion. Music drives my working day.

Imagining a better future in the time of COVID isolation seems like a fevered dream. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Sanrio Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper

Pencil and fineliner sketch of a eucalyptus tree

Before it was quite finished.

A sketchbook spread where I played with positive negative space with a limited color palette

made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life. A bit different in the colors choice this time

Did this doodle while working at my vendor's booth at the local Country Market.

Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Sanrio Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper. A breakdown of the Bic4 pen and No-name 10 colour pen layering that I’ve used. Drawing in a single direction instead of using back-and-forth movement alleviates some of the blotching that happens when using ballpoint pens. The back-and-forth method usually deposits the gunk that builds up on the tip of the ballpoint, smearing them in unexpected and unfortunate places on the drawing. When using the back-and-forth method, I usually have a napkin handy in order to clean the tip of the pen. Model: Meadhbh (Maeve)

A few of my sketchbooks, combing through some older concepts.

Mixed Media. Sketchbook drawing of one of my family's new kittens.

I missed Inktober so I'm doing my own