pen

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.

Ballpoint pen drawing on an antique legal document.

My husband has a chronic illness and frequently spends weeks in the hospital. I have been doodling each day while sitting with him and many of them reflect my thoughts at the time. Often appearing are desperation, hope, frustration, sarcasm, fear.

Inspired by Billie Eilish

Asuka on an incense box with ballpoint pen

Ballpoint pen drawing on a vintage map.

These are a few pages from my DA sketchbook that I filled using only a blue pen and a red and a blue highlighter.

Berliner Dom in pen

I felt like drawing birdhouses and this came out in my large Moleskine.

Pen & ink portrait of Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks.

(2B pencil on a 75mm x 125mm notecard) A reactionary piece, considering the growth of the far right in the world today.

This was my first drawing for the Graham's Up the Tree book. I used my most trusted pen: Metal Pilot Falcon, Soft Extra Fine.

A Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree. Ball point pen on a paper plate

Digital vs Analog, best of both worlds -- Sketched in Rebelle 3 and inked with a Platinum 3776 Century Shungyo SF. Ink is Platinum Carbon Black.

Tentalion!

Progression 3 of 5. Added more shading and detail. I noticed I got his mouth wrong and fixed it.

This is a Polaroid camera, the kind that you could buy in the 1970's.

This 11" x 14" bold, dynamic, geometric abstract makes a unique statement. Lines and curves, angles and shapes in stark black and white convey the arbitrary, yet methodical . . . random, yet systematic nature of the universe . . . and our lives.

Ballpoint pen drawing on an antique parchment.

Trying different materials for doodling. Gel pens and watercolour brush pen Doodled on blank notebook covers.

(2B pencil on a 139mm x 87mm postcard)

Twins are born best friends. There is no bond quite like the one that twins share.

Another artwork from 1997. Blast from the past. Pen and ink pointillism.

(HB pencil on 85mm x 50mm card) An ancient device containing all the knowledge of an advanced alien race.