Beach With Floating Islands

 

Hmm, for some reason I never got around to posting the color version of this painting.  Maybe because the floating islands don't really have a shadow?  Anyway its good enough so here it is!  :)

Cave Mouth Line Weight Tests

 

Here is the same scene - a cave mouth in the middle of a forest - drawn with three different thicknesses of line because I wanted to see how they would look.  The scene is from my imagination but it is amazing to me how the details - the exact arrangement of ferns and bushes - ends up so different from one to the next. This is partly due to it being easier to block things in with a thicker marker and easier to get more detail with a thinner one.  But it also goes to show that the imagination is often far from static, even if the basic concept remains the same.

Coastline With Floating Islands

 Looks like a peaceful sort of place.

Floating Islands And Caves

 Well, the islands are floating anyway.  I don't have any floating caves in this particular drawing, that would be interesting. :)

I really gotta color this.