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Designing self-study MFA program in illustration & visual storytelling. Really into folklore & fairy tales. Also, maps. And plants. Main account is @paintandink

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Inktober52, week 6, “Hammer”
Pentel Pocket brush pen and Pigma Micron 05.

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“Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.” - Rollo May, “The Courage to Create.”

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Textured pages in my composition notebook, made with bubble wrap and a stamp pad.

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Sketch for a future drawing or painting.

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Short poses (15 seconds to 5 minutes) from Croquis Cafe video 351, model Bianca Rose, in watercolor pencil on sketchbook paper.

#art #artstudent #sketchbook #drawing #figuredrawing

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This is a crowdsourced project; you can help! https://t.co/ib6VQ4kvRY

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Catching up on Inktober, slowly: Wave

#inktober52 #Inktober

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Work in progress.

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More virtual urban sketching though the wonder of Google Street View: Balikpapan, Indonesia; Mombasa, Kenya; Quebec, Canada; and Khabarovsk, Russia.

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I’ve been pretty sick for about a month (all tests for anything have been negative), but am slowly getting better and trying to catch up on things I’ve let slide. Like #inktober52. Here are: Dinner, Spider and Wave.

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Yesterday’s work. A long way come, a long way to go.

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Finished another sketchbook, finally; this one took four months, but, I mean, the world fell apart in bad ways and good in the last four months. I hope it keeps falling apart in the ways that it should and heals in better ways.

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Lynda Barry’s books were instrumental to the beginning of this project!

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“I believe anyone can make comics,” writes @NearSitedMonkey.
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This week’s figure drawing in watercolor pencil, complete with out-of-proportion woman who might actually be a bird woman. All reference from Croquis Cafe videos.

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Incomplete comics poetry in the art journal. Kind of basic to start; not sure if I’ll get back to it.

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This week’s face drawing practice; references from the Sketch Daily reference image generator.

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Plein air watercolor of the crabapple tree in our yard, and the rock I sat on to paint it, with a work of art that came with the house, made by a previous resident.

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@illustr8d Happy travels 😁

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I’ve been using urban sketching via Google Street View as a way of getting out of the house these days. So far, I’ve visited Pengersick Castle in Cornwall, and a neighborhood in Santiago, Chile.

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Still drawing, although my weekly studio day is gone now that my kids can’t go to forest school, and family life is much more hectic now with all of us home so much.

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Today’s work; Pitt Pastel in cobalt turquoise in my sketchbook. Feet 26 & 27 in my 100 feet challenge.

Reference photo: Ben Hartley on Unsplash.