Portraits

I still struggle getting likeness right but we keep on grinding. I think Andrew Loomis is a decent basis for construction, but to actually draw what I see I feel I needed Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. There was a noticeable jump in ability after I completed a couple of those exercises.

Sticky Note Doodles

Misc

Sketchbooks

I have an older Staedtler pigment liner 0.4 that was starting to feel a little dry. I decided to simply start doodling shapes and see how long it would last. Instead it turned into an endurance round where my patience was in danger of running out long before the ink did. In the end we both succeeded and the end result is kinda mesmerizing to look at.

2016 Sketchbook

Most of these are from studying Andrew Loomis in October of that year as an alternative to Inktober.

Paintings

At some point in 2021 I started compulsively painting (primarily) trees with cotton swabs.