After a long time away from this little blog, I returned and noticed this old post sitting there patiently in draft. I thought I might as well publish it, so you get something to look at while I cobble together the next one. After almost a year in the job (and a marathon that ate […]
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Here’s the second week of my participation in The 100 Days Project. As I mentioned last time, I’m focusing on copying faces in (Japanese) manga. The second week I am still on a Tezuka Osamu kick.I switched to the sumi ink during this week: less feathering, less bleeding through the page so I can draw
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I’ve decided to join The 100 Day Project and since it started on 18 February, I’m already well on my way, with 17 small pieces completed. My chosen project? Copying faces from manga, inking them with sumo ink and a proper pen (Blanzy-Conté-Gilbert — № 423 Plume Atome) and touching up with two small brushes,
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As I was cleaning up my digital files, I noticed that some of Squirrel’s adventures from 2023 haven’t made it to the blog yet, so I thought it’s about time I caught you up. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll have seen some of these before but there is one new one! All images
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For #FinishingFriday, I bring you the first piece that I’m reasonably happy with from this year’s classes. Mind you: I already know exactly what I need to do differently next time: I guess I’ll just call it an extensive study before executing the master piece, someday. At least I feel a lot more confident in
If you don’t move in the world of illustration, it’s highly likely Inktober doesn’t mean a thing to you, and October is for you the month of: (If you’re in the southern hemisphere, those last 2 don’t apply, and possibly the first two neither. I never visited the southern hemisphere!) But if you peek inside
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Ancient in every sense of the word: dug up from my personal archive from 1992 apparently. Ooh my, when I was a “wee little one” in secondary school. Like last week’s offering, I drew this after a picture from our history or Greek textbook, I’m pretty sure. I never had the guts to sit in
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The other day I was browsing through my older work and tossing a lot of stuff. Some drawings made the cut and are still around, others only got a picture and then got tossed anyway. Most of it just went straight for the recycling. You can’t keep everything. But I have enough to entertain you
In case anybody ever needed proof I went to a catholic school, this is the kind of stuff I drew, apparently, around age 6 or 7. Because you draw what happened that week. Or what you were told to draw. Apparently we went to church 😹 I am struck by how I forgot to outline
Sometimes, I’m just so darn good they can’t believe it… But I think the lighting in our art class studio of an evening is not the greatest, and it kind of helps me: Gentle reader, I acknowledge that I have a decent starting base, and that my powers of shading are coming back and it
