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.

City Freeway

So I realized that blogging everyday and actually finishing a new piece of art everyday is basically impossible, so I will be posting weekly now (at least I hope to). However, I do have a new piece for you guys, and it will be added to my city collection. This one was pretty tedious and time consuming, and to be honest I did not enjoy working on this piece.

Here is the preliminary sketch, and everything seems to look proportionate, and in perspective. I tried to keep the worm's eye view slightly, to make the city appear larger.






As I began to ink in the illustration, I added details to the sign, and began to display a small sense of depth using crosshatches as to not be confused by each edge on the bridge later.

The primary ink is finished here, and no real sense of light and dark is achieved here except for that which I had added earlier on the bridge.




I finish the drawing by adding tone. The result is decent, and I hope to continue drawing more cities for my collection.