I drew a fish!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzdial/8429357116/

I drew some fish. Recently, I’ve been working on learning how to work tonally with pens. It has been as hard and frustrating as I remember learning any new technique is, drawing things over and over , things not coming out like I wanted. The thing is, it’s especially annoying since I thought that I already knew how to do this.

Now, however , I think I am getting somewhere.
More coming later, no doubt.

While this technique isn’t directly applicable to my ultimate goal of tattooing, I figure that all the work I do improves my basic artistic skill, which will eventually make me better overall. All experience becomes useful eventually.

Sketchbook works once again

So much of my work, and I think most artists, is experimentation in the sketchbook, trying out hatching or pencil technique or something, some tiny variation. Here are a couple recent works in my sketchbook:

I rather like the idea that I could do alternative images for popular memes in my preferred style. I very well may. Stay tuned, pencileers!