Friday, October 3, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
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.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
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.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
continuous line finneas
Friday, July 11, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
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.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
shoulder profile
Not from this week exactly, but I was digging through my most recent sketches and this one stood out to me.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
constructing tetrahedrons
Actually those "not technically tetrahedrons" technically are tetrahedrons, just not regular tetrahedrons.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
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.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
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.
Saturday, May 3, 2014
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.
Friday, April 25, 2014
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.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
looking down
Just messing around pastels and blending. I like the contrast with the unblended texture of the black pastel around her profile.
And those random ink marks? I hate to waste paper so a lot of times I'll do sketches on top of sketches.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
ink study of a dog
Adorable. This was from a "reddit gets drawn" photo ref. I did the underdrawing with a ballpoint pen so those stray marks before I properly inked it are that.
Monday, April 7, 2014
the apartment across the alley
This was a nearly blind continuous-line contour I did in the middle of one winter night with a micron pen. It was late so I only drew by the scant light of street torches from the comfort of the bedroom.
It looks kind of crazy, but that's exactly why it's here.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Inque-nan
I love this drawing. My brother was sitting on a plush chair in the living room with his knee across the armrest and head resting on the back of his hand.
I originally sketched him all loopy style with a 2B mechanical pencil and then I went back and inked the lines with my pilot parallel pens. I want to say this was the 3.6mm nib.
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