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My next posts will be the pages of my sketchbooks one by one. I’m starting with sketchbook A which is my most recent one. Each sketchbook drawing will have the “SB” on the title, and they will be posted in order for your enjoyment.

The first painting in a series of watercolor portraits of women who have changed or influenced history.

Princess Leia digital art

A watercolor portrait of two people dancing. This time in color.

Most likely the only attempt you'll see me do with real life people portraits.

An evil samurai warrior drawing away from a battlefield

I had been attending a one on one class with an artist friend. On our second meeting he taught me how yo draw a portrait with just pen and paper. So there. I drew my first piece for portraiture.

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Watercolor, watercolor paper, a pen.

Here’s a piece part of a new project I’m working on - Pop Culture inspired Loteria Cards.

Maynard James Keenan, front man of Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.

This took me about an hour which is great because I don't have much time to spare as I am doing Camp NaNoWriMo this month. I still want to be active in the art space so this will have to do for now. I honestly really love how this piece came out. Again drawing another OC because why not.

Another portrait, but this time using colored pencils. I hope you like it.

An old watercolour sketch with lines from Padraig Pearse's poem "The Fool". Watercolour and ink

I want to be inside the raindrop. I want know it. Feel it. Be it. Close containment. Single purpose One direction.  The rush. The thrill. Careening towards the earth. Would be a death race. But the fall is the journey. The crash. The release. Is just the beginning.

Colored pencil and marker on sketchbook paper.

Apart of my 30 portraits in 30 days challenge

Pencil and digitally colored

Head programmer of nasa's apollo project. Charcoal pencils on grey toned paper.

A portrait of my cat Linus, who has the sweetest nature, a lot of love for his brother cat Rex, and a lingering case of kitty gingivitis from his days as a stray. Derwent Drawing Pencils on pastel paper.

An Inktense rendering of my eclectus parrot Numbo with his signature 'What?' look.