As part of an ink class assignment, I did an ink wash piece with the skeleton of a magical creature. This little lady here is the first thing I ever did in dye based ink, which is by far my favorite media now. Her name is Samantha, and she has an entire backstory that... I think I won't go into right now. But maybe one day...
Flower Chain
I started art school off doing a lot of colored pencil work. I came in all confident with my 72 set of Prismacolors, but that didn't pan out. I did as good of work as one can with colored pencils, but they're hard on your hands and they're garbage when it comes to contrast. I made the switch to ink wash and compositing pretty late in my art school career. I'm really glad I did.
Wrath
I did two versions of this assignment- the first piece (as well as the critique it got) weren't what I wanted, so I went back and did a more carefully rendered version of basically the same thing. I forget sometimes how helpful it is to throw out a bad drawing and just start from scratch.
This piece was done in FW acrylic inks- they aren't my favorite, but they carry some really fun colors.
Back to the Beginning...
With a new website comes a new blog... Here for the first few posts, a little look back at art school and a little later, the things I've done in my first year out. For those of you who have traveled back this far, thank you- it's been quite a journey!