sketch

Hazbin Hotel finally released on Prime

8 1/2 X 11 inch on medium weight sketch paper.

Chaffinch I did this for #sketchadayapp daily drawing prompts Digital #clipstudiopaint #softpastel

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Japanese ink on paper this evening – some minor highlights in digital. Re-visiting ink with a video still.

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Another allsorts.

Witchy whale!

It’s Beltane! Here, have another cuttlefish and capybara pairing :-)

Having spent a good four to five hours today editing photos from a photography gig I undertook earlier this week, the title seems more than pertinent!

Today’s abundance of coffee has been… useful, hahaha! Goodbye sleep…

I was kinda bored when I drew this, so it came out in the art work. Incidentally, this guy looks a bit like a character in the nameless city series of graphic novels, which I finished reading recently. The first book is rather heavy handed, but the last two are much better by comparison.

Due to COVID-restrictions, Edinburgh urban sketchers have been sketching virtually in Catalonia using Google street view. Here’s one of my contributions. It’s somewhere in Amposta ... unfortunately, didn’t take note of the actual street :O Pencil, brush pens and posca on coloured A4.

Painty sketch of a moment

One of my Inktober sketches from last October, the prompt was Wild.

In case this is the first drawing of mine that you see, I like to use dark and heavy outlines. It really limits the sense of a real life animal. I’m trying to change my style, but it’s hard. Hopefully I can start to progress

Graphite sketch

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Drawing inspiration.

“Change is inevitable. You either resist it—we know who those people are—or you go with it.” - Robert Redford (1936 - 2025).

Wise words Gavin!

Spooky songs yet again…

Something, something… cephalopods are invading.

A detailed pen-and-ink exploration of a modified auto-rickshaw turned into a mobile coffee stall. This design captures the charm of urban travel and the global love for street food culture, rendered in a raw, sketchbook style.

Back on my travelbook, made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life. Here the portrait of an old man in Istanbul street

咖啡店-豆堂(日本京都) The coffee shop Ginka in kyoto, Japan

The previous sketch has been finished and prepared as a page for my upcoming coloring book. It features the fairy admiring a butterfly

Moleskinings graphite & ink

Hand and colour study. This was back when I just bought my whole 72 set Prisma Colour and I wanted to practice with it.

Medium: Ink on Sketch Book Paper Size: 15” x 25” Year: 10/04/2019 This Illustration is my Pumpkin carve design for the Great Pumpkin Carve, sponsored by The Chad’s Ford Pa. Historical Society. I have been participating in this event since 2006. I designed this picture to illustrate the human heart toward God. Understanding the symbolism in the design Human heart: A Fortress God’s Communion with Man Kind: Irish trinity flowers, with the crown, cross, dove God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit The two doors: the diverse ways mankind communes with God. The door with the thorny flower design: A religious person who live with out power. They refuse to allow God to sit on the throne in their lives. The door with the Grape Vine design: A follower of Jesus, who summit their lives to God’s lordship. John 15:5 New King James Version (NKJV) 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. Stephen J. Vattimo 10/04/2019