drawing

Exploring texture and line.

Charcoal on wood

Charcoal on board

I have a hard time trying to decide what my "style" is. This comes closest I think. Plus I LOVE drawing chickens. These are two of my own grumpy ladies.

Charcoal on wood

Mechanical pencil drawing with digital texture and color added

Illustration demo image using pen and ink, watercolor, and acrylic ink.

Colored pencil on toned paper

Graphite on paper

A procession of different characters drawn ink ink with no pencil sketching.

new profile pic :)

Tomato can bouquet.

Homegrown elephant garlic drawing done in graphite pencil (H and HB). I enjoy drawing little roots and entanglements---following each one to its logical conclusion. A little OCD, I know.

Drawn with a black metal Falcon SB. Pilot Black ink on Strathmore series 400 marker paper. Color coming next.

It’s always good to find some drawing time on vacation. We went to some weird random small towns in Washington and a ghost town called Burke with some particularly interesting history. I had Cheers playing on my phone while I drew this but no similarity is intended. It’s a classic show but it would have been better without the distracting laugh tracks.

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

Inktober Day 5: "Build" ... Platinum Carbon Black and Holbein Watercolor.

Art: "Drie Inseln" / Pen: Platinum 3776 Century Black Diamond EF / Ink: Pilot Black

Inspiration from Jefferson Airplanes awesome song White Rabbit. This is kind of older and shabby version than in book

Ghosts, Ghosts and More Ghosts. Drawn with a Pilot Custom 743 M using Noodlers 41 Brown ink. Watercolor coming next.

Australian author mbpardy & I have a children's book coming out soon called "Graham's Up the Tree." This illustration from the book makes a good countdown to release.

Work in progress... 20 hours in approx another 30 to go.

Colored pencil on toned tan paper

Here's my second sketch for this book cover. This one will be scanned and colored. I drew it with my Pilot Custom 823 fountain pen.

Sometimes I just want to be in Mario's world.

Had to find a title somewhere…