blog: drawings

Drawing: Ink-wash study

June 29, 2023February 25, 2008

Broke out the dip-pens and watercolors today. It’s been far too long.

I realized as I was sharpening pencils that I haven’t actually sharpened a pencil in several years. I’ve bought pencils (intending to put them to use) far more often than I have actually used them. So I dug through my drawers and found all the pencils I could that needed sharpening, then sharpened them all for good measure.

This piece has an outline inked with crowquill and brush, after which I diluted the ink and went back in with a wash brush. The thin piece of scratch paper that I used wrinkled from the watery ink — I really love how in the scan the wrinkles give the dude a radiant Byzantine-halo effect. ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND MASTER

Drawing: IT’S BEARS IN ILL-FITTING HATS TIME

June 29, 2023December 28, 2007

My new best friend ‘halcyonsnow’ has a Flickr set full of bears in ill-fitting hats. As you know, said ursines avec chapeaux are part of my plan to dominate 2008. I don’t know if this is one of those Flickr things that you people can add to, or however it works, but all I want for Christmas are more pictures of bears in ill-fitting hats floating around on the internet. Seriously, that’s it. Go to it.

I’m pleased to announce that my bears-in-ill-fitting-hats meme is starting to take off! There’s now a public Flickr group, to which Ape Lad (of the great Laugh-Out-Loud Cats) and others have made delightful contributions, and I’ve just been told that there’s a Facebook group as well. I don’t know what Facebook groups are for, but if they’re for anything at all, then dammit they need to be for bears in ill-fitting hats. You guys are making my holiday dreams come true, one bear in an ill-fitting hat at a time.
’08 IS GONNA BE GRRRR-EAT