Ghosts of Consequence

Reclining Ink Figure

the meteorology of sleep

Futuristic

 

On the Banality of Fruit

On the Nature of Culpability

(here, you go.)

Elephant in F

vinyl thought bubble

I saw an article on this badass artist, Chan Hwee Chong, who recreates classical masterpieces using only pressure variations with a single black line. 

small abstract and media swatches

This began as something attempted at representational, then abandoned and repurposed to test the look and feel of other media over the course of two years.

CMY( ) colors

Ink test for a larger printing project.

continuous line finneas

A pesar de que solo dibuje durante siete minutos, se sentia como un maraton.  The payoff was that dense, beautiful line work around the eyes.

bamboo pen and charcoal experiment with figure lines

A continuation of form studies- more texture, more action.

Stellated octahedron

Such a beautiful composite of intersecting tetrahedrons. <3

ink hands and water texture

What's cool about these is that I did an invisible under drawing with just water.  The paper has this unique property that causes it to become slightly embossed instead of just wet when painted.

shoulder profile

 

Not from this week exactly, but I was digging through my most recent sketches and this one stood out to me. 

constructing tetrahedrons

Actually those "not technically tetrahedrons" technically are tetrahedrons, just not regular tetrahedrons.

cube perspective analysis sketch

The setup is this: you're looking directly at a transparent cube with the vanishing point in the dead center of the face orthogonal to your line of sight.  Since you can see straight through the cube you are also able to see the edges of the face furthest away from your position.

origami cranes

I love origami.  Maybe more than drawing. 

os frontale anatomical study

I've been working on anatomy studies all week.

erika

...incredible features all the time.

continuous ink technique

I figured out a high flow ink/brush technique where you use a water-filled brush pen and feed it ink by using the tip of a fountain pen to conduct the supply inside from the fp reservoir. 

design notes on lateral and diagonal bisects

I've been working on breaking 2-D composition down to its most basic components: line and shape.  There's a lot of different ways of looking at it, but I've found that the 3 foundational layouts on a rectangular canvas are vertical, horizontal and diagonal bisects.  Or in math terms, y = x, y = 0, and x = 0 in a Cartesian coordinate plane.

This is where the approach diverges.  The diagrammatic lines can be thought of as delineating interior shapes, or defining directional line segments (vectors).  In the case of shapes a diagonal bisect would give two opposing triangles.  In the case of vectors you would have the line denote a directional movement as in the example of a plane crash.

These are the basic frameworks.  For simplicity's sake I avoided talking about the types of geometric transformations that would move the bisecting lines away from the center axis.  I did, however, include the framework for a spiral built from vertical and horizontal bisects to show that these elements can be incredibly powerful for building complex structures to support interesting compositions.

sumi dragon

This was done with an ink-laden tortillon on smooth paper which quickly progressed to the dry brush effects visible on the sides of the dragon's head.

false negative and line contrasts

A couple of sketches looking at how to contrast the figure of the woman with the background.

beloved hypotrochoid