sketchbook

Cheap black pen, 8.5" x 11" sketchbook. Mom's living room circa 1995.

Back on my travelbook, made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life. Here the portrait of an octopus swimming peacefully on the greek coast

2023, Ballpoint pens on 5” x 8” (10” x 8” Double page spread) acid free Moleskine sketchbook paper, Adobe Photoshop.

Last month's sketchbook work. Slightly wonky because I was kinda rushing it. 2023, Double Page Spread-5” x 8,” Ballpoint Pen on Moleskine Sketchbook.

This was my final project for the "Portrait Sketchbooking" course by Gabriela Niko on Domestika.

Meadhbh with her long wild red hair all over the place. 2023, 5” x 8,” Ballpoint Pen on Moleskine Sketchbook.

Pencil drawing

From 2021, Meadhbh massaging her neck after a long pose. Red Bic pen drawing converted to black and white in Photoshop.

sketchbook

SteveO with his arms up. An old ballpoint pen sketch from several years ago. Red Bic pen layer converted to black and white.

This is a little practice run with faces, all drawn from my head without sketching in pencil first.

An automatic drawing, everything is out of my head with only the briefest idea of a story line. I played around with shapes and lines and shading to see what affect would result. It was fun, but time consuming.

Random portraits found on earthsworld.com rendered with mechanical pencil and red lead.

All day all I think about is ramen…

Trying to sketch something daily

I’iwi (Hawaiian honeycreeper) sketch for my day off (state holiday!). Ballpoint pen.

Binge-watched “Bridgerton” last weekend and paid the price for it all day Saturday. The drawing is based on my wife's picture of me on the couch sleeping off my bad decision. HB, 2B Staedtler mechanical pencils on 8.5” x 11” acid-free sketchbook.

Triangles

patterns 3 (5 pics)

i am the llama.

Doodle in ink from October

When I grow up I want to draw pictures that make people smile. -Stephanie

Black and white, graphite (pencil) sketchbook portrait.

Black and white, graphite (pencil) sketchbook portrait.