Because my building has a fly problem…

Silver sharpie and white colored pencil on black cardstock-ey paper

Drawing Warm-Up: a cave texture

I wanted a break from homework, so I decided to draw. I’ve begun to find that I draw and paint better if I first take a bit of time and aimlessly doodle: just swirls and shapes and blocks of color with no particular attention paid to making it real-looking. It’s also a great way to make some intracate-looking pieces. All in all, lots of fun.

Here’s the cave:

 

Really fun to draw and an interesting end result. I used some random art pens and sharpies I found in my desk and 5.5×8.5″ watercolor paper.

Dragon Rough Draft

There’s this dragon image I’ve been wanting to draw for a while. I don’t want to use up my good paper yet, so I sketched on a newspaper I picked up on the drive to this new job I’m at. I’m going to work on the finer details of the anatomy and pose of the dragon next, but this is a great start. My main inspiration was the Dragonology book and its counterpart, the Dragonology Handbook, as well as velociraptor skeletons.

I drew the bones to help me think out the pose, and also because the velociraptor skeletons had a big influence here.

Stress Art Always Turns Out Weird

Exhibit A:

Acrylic and pen and silver sharpie. The sharpie doesn’t photograph very well.

Still, I always like dragons.