Leopard Head

Decided that I love leopards more than any other animal today, and I think I will be creating a collection of my leopard illustrations to submit to some competitions. Here is another one:

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Painted Leopard

Wow it has been more than 6 months than I've posted here. Well, doesn't really matter now. This is just a place for me to compile my art together really, and I have been busy with school. I have a few pieces to post for the next few weeks, so here goes the first:

Carnegie

Quick sketch of Andrew Carnegie

Lotus Flowers

Here is a piece of art I genuinely felt proud of. This piece took me quite a while and I believe is a really clean cut zentangle that was embodied into a lotus. I came up with the idea while thinking of symbols of chinese culture, and then decided to take a lotus and draw zentangle in it. Anyways, here it is. It was done with my Pigma Micron pens. I think the simplicity of the background really adds the "zen" to zentangle. The lotuses seem to be floating in nowhere, which makes everything so much more magical.

Lonely Man

Here is a little something I came up with one day when I was really bored. It was more of the idea than the execution here. I kind of messed up on the perspective. I thought it would be really great to compare a lonely man to himself if he weren't so. There goes the hat.

Zentangle?

Took a second shot at ZenTangle again. I think its a very relaxing and rewarding time killer. I just draw random stuff! This one is using my micron pens.

Flight

Ive been enjoying drawing the animals lately. Capturing this owl's intensity with my pen proved to be quite difficult. I find that much of the motion comes from the eyes, and simply the fact that the eyes are so fixated upon one single point seems to bring the owl to life, and show its desire for the prey that it must have been attacking. I completed this work with Speedball SuperBlack India Ink and a Leonardt Soft Drawing nib. I quite like this nib, and prefer it to the Gillot 404 I sometimes use. It provides me a much more variable stroke, as can be seen on  most of the feathers.

Lions in Love

Well it has been quite a while since I last posted... about a month to be exact. Well anyhow, I was on vacation, and I haven't really felt the desire to make the effort to use the computer. I was out in nature and taking full advantage of the tranquility. I drew plenty of new ideas, and this is the first I wanted to put up. I think it captures the primal love between parents and their children, and the emotions even animals feel. Animals and us, aren't so different.