Celtic Squirrel Tree

 I was starting to get behind but now I'm almost back on schedule for designs for my next coloring book.  Actually I'm quite pleased with how its coming along.

Lake With Ruins

 

 

And here it is in color.  I just drew this from my imagination.

Ruin With A View

 

Here's a nice and serene landscape with ruins.  This was a WIP from a couple years ago that I rediscovered and decided to finish up, so here it is.  I'm hoping to color it soon.

Skull

 

 

Here's a skull drawn with a white marker on toned paper.  It was kinda fun.

Here's a link to the marker used.  I'm not sponsored but people might be curious:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THBHN1T?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Also the paper for the same reason:

 https://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-412-105-Toned-Sketch-Sheets/dp/B008D2TUYO/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=toned%2Bpaper&qid=1705347673&sr=8-7&th=1

Another Yak

 

Saddle yak! 🐃 😀

Reference image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bos_grunniens_at_Yundrok_Yumtso_Lake.jpg

Merry Christmas!

 

I'd like to wish everyone a Merry, jolly or otherwise enjoyable Christmas.  And also here's another drawing done with those Kuretake brush markers.  Its a just a bit of crumbling wall drawn from my imagination but its good to experiment with different materials and styles and this was sorta fun.

New Picture And Update

 Here is a bird I drew with colored pencils.  Here's the wonderful stock photo I based it on:

https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-juvenile-pied-wagtail-wagtail-5499473/

I also have an update!  My next coloring book, Celtic Knotwork Coloring Book 2 will hopefully be coming out next Saturday the 27th!  So yay!

Here is a link to my amazon author page so you can find it:

amazon.com/author/jpmorrow

Sprig Of Nasturtium

 

Sometimes ideas for what to draw just sort of jump out at you.  I was moving the ladder and happened to break off a bit of the nasturtium that was growing on it, and I looked at it and said to myself 'I know what I'm gonna draw today'.  And here it is.  Sometimes its hard to decide what to draw, and sometimes its easy, but in any case, its always good practice once you get started.

Vanilla Zoomorphs

Aren't these funny?  I've been trying to figure out what my next design is going to be and this was a good exercise, seeing what they look like when they're not tied into knots.

Floating Islands Made Of Giant Turnips

 

I was doodling floating islands shaped like giant turnips the other day, as one does. :)

More Floating Islands

 More floating islands, with a little guy and a cabin.  I kind of messed up on wind direction because the smoke from the cabin seems to be rising straight up and the vines are hanging straight down while the clouds are blowing one way and the waterfalls are blowing another.  But its still a nice picture.

I sketched some chickens on post-it notes as references for the chickens that are wandering around on the island, since I'm not very good at just winging it.  That went well.  Drawing preparatory sketches is always a good idea and I might do more of that in the future.

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.

Brown Mantis

 

Here's another mantis! :)

Stock Image

Acorn Sprig

Coast Live Oak. :)

Forest Interior

 

Here's a little woodland scene I drew.  Needless to say a color version is on the way, it may take me a while though.

A couple more sketches

A couple more sketches lately.  Hatching and cross-hatching are becoming more instinctive although of course there is still so much more to learn.

More Sketches

 

 

Stock images deer and squirrel.

Another Celtic Knot

 And another Celtic knot.  I'm about halfway towards having enough Celtic designs for another coloring book, so at the rate I'm going I should have enough designs for it in another five or six years.  But I'm hoping to speed up a bit.

The old Celtic knotwork coloring book is here by the way, so you'll have something to look through and color while you're waiting.

Donkey

Stock

:)

Wombat Sketch

Wombat reference here.  I'm not even doing Inktober this year, someday I'll do it and it'll be spectacular but right now its just too much work.