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#56 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Evelyn Nesbit ~ the Original Gibson Girl
Result: Evelyn Nesbite
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Micron 005 pen, in a Moleskine plain journal
Location: At home
Note: ...I just felt like drawing hair today. I've always find it to be a relaxing exercise and a Gibson girl is all about hair...so there you have it.
I'm not sure when it occurred to me. Maybe it was criticism that a working artist passed my way. I set the pens down for a month while we were in Nice and let things "sit."
The Muse visited and I started thinking of some really goofy ideas. I said to myself "stuff 'um! I'm doing something silly and I'm doing it for myself."
To explain what these were I did a title page to each drawing. As if it really explained anything, that is.
I first shared these with friends in England during our weekly Zoom calls. We had a "Show and Tell" kind of setup. It was a great way to get beyond the loneliness and to spend time with friends, even if it weren't in person.
a quick sketch with some new pens, the dog in the foreground is a bit pants but the others came out well
...because I loathe them and refuse to draw one, instead I drew a Baka Kujira; a yōkai that takes the form of an animated whale skeleton.
Over a year ago when we were confined to avoid spreading a potentially deadly virus, I knew much of my photographic adventures would need to be curtailed. In similar time, something by Stephan Marjoram inspired me to fill a bit of time doing something creative. So I took up ink drawing. Just to see what I could do. And with zero photography projects in the queue, I wanted to fill this space with something. So here goes. I start out by aping M.Marjoram and, as you will later see, I take inspiration from many other sources.
Giving credit where credit is due, this is a landscape created using Aaron Blaise's Photoshop Wet Media Brushes and copying his basic technique. This is my first attempt at creating a Pen and Ink effect. For more info, check out my blog at sydspix.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/how-to-create-a-watercol....
#217 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Gangs of squirrels in my yard
Result: Squirrelz in tha Hood
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: home
Note: I thought first to draw a squirrel like my Hipster birds, but in reality they just are too tough to be ironic
#164 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Lagertha of the new series, Vikings
Result: Shield Maiden neko-style
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: Home
Note: Like most kitties, she is armed with sharp pointy things that draw blood. ;)
#275 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: A photograph of a human iris in the July National Geographic
Result: Irises
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Platinum Carbon Fountain Pen, in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook ( 21.6 cm 27.9 cm / 8 1/2" x 11")
Location: Home
Note: Long day with my 4 year old niece. When she went home I sat down to listen to the CBC and just zone out drawing lines....
#237 of 365 Daily Drawings
Inspiration: Husband + gianormous piece of chocolate cake
Result: He ate the whole thing
Materials: Pentel 0.3 HB, Sakura Micron 005(s) in a Moleskine Plain notebook
Location: Seating area of a hotel in Lansing MI while my son did his homework.
Note: My husband needed a nap to digest the huge piece of really rich fudge chocolate cake he had for dessert at dinner.