Three of my recent cephalopod paintings, in order of creation. Nautilus on blank skateboard, Kraken on wood panel, Japanese Firefly Squid on blank skateboard.
Yes I spent all day doing this. No I’m not sorry. I am bored out of my mind with my own work and this has been the first thing to excite me to make all month.
"I want to tell you about someone you remind me of a great deal. His name was Yoda. He was small like you, but his heart was huge, and the Force was strong in him. He once said to me, "Size matters not." That's how he talked. He would speak in riddles."
Though I also do paintings in acrylic, watercolor with colored pencil is by far my favorite medium. I just love the softness of the watercolor with the contrast of colored pencil.
Here I have put down some watercolor washes on the Macaracoon piece.
This piece is almost finished now, and to see the full work in progress shots of my art, please consider joining me on my Pæ.tree.0hn!
I have been pushing shapes and trying out many styles for short form comics. It's out of my comfort zone and it's not as easy as it looks. I already respect comic makers but that respect is ratcheting up the more I do this; there's so many parts. The character's design. How they move. What to leave out what to keep in. What to write in the dialogue boxes. WHERE to put them. How big should the text be?
I have no magnum opus planned but sometimes I want to express things and they come across better visually than in text.
A painting, I guess, for my team outing at work. I haven't worked with acrylics for a veeery long time and these weren't exactly a full set of pro-quality paints, but...it felt good, I think, to work with my original medium again.
Boy oh boy, it sure is great to make things instead of answering email all day. Now it's done, better go answer all that email I neglected while making things.
GENOVEMBER Day 1! Quick-and-dirty 20 minute mechanical pencil Geno.
It's been a while since I've drawn something in pencil I've liked this much. I'm way more comfortable digitally, but I can tell my practice is at least paying off a bit!