mike thomas
moleskine sketch 004
Missed a couple of days, so sat down tonight and spent about an hour sketching these. I used to have a little bit of a fetish for "day of the dead" figurines, and these still grace my home office desk.
Drawn on pocket-sized Moleskine sketchpad, using Staedtler pigment liners: 0.5, .0.7, 0.1 (in that order).
Again, these are pseudo-blind-contour drawings, where I look at the paper as little as absolutely possible while drawing initial outlines. No penciling -- all pen. I started with a 0.5 pen, and did the outline, and major details and heavy shading. I then called out certain lines with the 0.7. Finally, I did the cross-hatching and stipple with the 0.1.
I decided to photograph this page because a) my scanner doesn't seem to be scanning cleanly, b) it seems the "safest" way to proceed with sharing artwork on flickr, since it's literally a photo.
moleskine sketch 004
Missed a couple of days, so sat down tonight and spent about an hour sketching these. I used to have a little bit of a fetish for "day of the dead" figurines, and these still grace my home office desk.
Drawn on pocket-sized Moleskine sketchpad, using Staedtler pigment liners: 0.5, .0.7, 0.1 (in that order).
Again, these are pseudo-blind-contour drawings, where I look at the paper as little as absolutely possible while drawing initial outlines. No penciling -- all pen. I started with a 0.5 pen, and did the outline, and major details and heavy shading. I then called out certain lines with the 0.7. Finally, I did the cross-hatching and stipple with the 0.1.
I decided to photograph this page because a) my scanner doesn't seem to be scanning cleanly, b) it seems the "safest" way to proceed with sharing artwork on flickr, since it's literally a photo.