So. Picture a day? Have failed so very, very miserably at that. Also totally failed at being around online the last 2 months. Been taking a bit of an unofficial extended break from the internet - not sure how much longer it will continue. Anyway.
Last weekend I hopped over The Pond to visit my best friend in New York. Definitely one of the most awesome weekends ever :-) I’ve been to NY before, both with family and with the ex, but this was by far the most enjoyable time I’ve had there. One of the things I came back with is a set of the full 150 Prismacolor pencils. Here’s my first attempt using them (though to be honest I prefer the non-coloured version better - I think this would have suited computer or marker colours better).
Some days are better than others.
I suspect Blackjack’s going to be ‘having words’ with someone about his wing there… Panel from an as yet un-named Daemonslayers comic I’ve been working on when really I should be doing other things (like working on ‘Heritage’).
blerg. You know how some days you get those pictures that won’t do anything you want them to do? … started ok in colour pencil, then switched to Derwent graphitints for the fur. Then it all went wrong and I attacked it with india ink. Then colour pencils again and finally I gave up and scrubbed over it with Distress Ink, because it seemed somehow appropriate.
just about managed to squeeze out one sketch this week…
Yup. I’ve been at those bloody circles again. An iron dragon this time… not the sort you’d use on your laundry.
Thinking I might dig out the old badge maker and use this series to make a set of 25mm badges (or buttons, depending what side of the pond you’re on) for the MCM. Perhaps.
Finally got around to scanning the last couple of my series of watercolour skull studies. With flames because fuckyouIdon’thavetoexplainmyself.
So here they are all uploaded in one place. Apart from the crow skull which was crap.
Does drawing a picture one day then colouring it another count as a picture each day? …probably not. Anyway whatever. It’s so miserable outside today (and in my head, but that’s depression for ya) that having nowhere to go and nothing to do is a good thing. Broke out the colour pencils for this one. I’d like to use them more often but they’re quite hard on my wrist.
Got some Derwent ‘Onyx’ pencils in the sales and tried them out here for the first time. They’re quite nice and go darker than 9B but I’m not entirely sold on them… I prefer the feel of my Derwent Graphics, but they do blend quite nicely. And I got them super cheap so I should stop griping.
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