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.

Crosshatching Shelf Fungus

 Sketch of shelf fungus based on this stock photo here.

Floating Island - Watercolor Pencils

 

Watercolor pencils are great, they're so convenient and I like that they leave a texture.

Update:

And here's two more in black and white and sepia.  Just trying things out and experimenting :)

Boy Chillin on a Floating Island

 

I just finished coloring this one, and I'm happy with it.  The child is based on this stock image

More Pages For Crumbling Overgrown Ruins

 You can see all the pages so far on my tumblr here.

Kelp Mermaid

This one took me a while, beautiful though isn't it?
 

 Here is a drawing I did of St. Junipero Serra! Its based on an image from Wikipedia as shown here:

 

Image Source

I wanted to draw it for several reasons, firstly because it was one of the statues torn down by the black lives matter movement last year sometime and I like the idea of trying at least in some small way to replace and even build on what was lost. 

And second it gave me an opportunity to practice my crosshatching which is great because a lot of the stories that continue to inspire me, like the Narnia books and Alice in Wonderland incorporate a lot of hatching and crosshatching in their illustrations.

And thirdly I really like the idea of drawing Catholic saints and religious art in general because I’m a Catholic and because there’s so much in it that’s beautiful.

So yeah, that’s three birds with one stone!  I always like having multiple reasons for working on the same artwork especially since I usually end up spending a lot of time on whatever it is I’m working on.