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.

On holiday

I’ve been on holiday and now honeymoon – it’s been pretty busy and I haven’t had the time to sit down and work properly. But I did a little. Here it is – the Church of St.Michael and All Angels in Hawkshead, Cumbria,England,UK, Europe.

This is the complete line work- I’m using a waterproof rollerball on heavy watercolour paper, because I want the stiffness and texture of it. What I’m trying to do here is establish all the tone with the rollerball, and then apply coloured pencil to it as though they were a watercolour wash, trying to avoid adding much tone – it was a grey, shadowless day today.

Waste no time

He’s a wee drawing I’ve been working slowly on amid many, many other personal projects, including but not limited to: learning how to make lattes, bathing the dog (still haven’t gotten around to it), making DIY decorations for my upcoming wedding, remembering to eat, learning how to make bread and pizza, working on my big commission, and working out.

I’ve been using biro on this sketch pad a lot more, since I got tired of friable media like pencil smudging on my page, and because, like every political and religious group, every now and then I like to get back to basics.