Scandinavia & Baltics & double points for INKTOBER - I

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.” 

-Hans Christian Andersen

Rosenborg Castle - Copenhagen

Random old building - Copenhagen

Replica Medieval nut cart

Town Hall - Tallinn, Estonia

I'll post more sometime later - i just got bored of the click click click of it all...

State Fair! no Rodgers or Hammerstein...but there were some Mini-pigs and animals

Morgen says, "Are you just drawing what you want? It didn't look like that." 

Me: Yeah, I draw 'em how I sees 'em...adding some contrast now.

Morgen: You should have left the contrast out. 

Me: Let me tell you about contrast and value...

Morgen: STOP

First Beach at La Push, WA

La Push, WA and vicinity for Memorial weekend 2019.  No Wifi, no TV. Lots of beach and ocean and trees and rainforest and driftwood. 

Did a quick sketch on a postcard at the beach when the kids were cplaying with the waves.  

Did a couple more sketches/ color studies. Would have liked to do a few more but wanted to get a larger painting done in time for Michele's birthday.  Need to study the foreground value and wetness more. - The foreground should be darker/ higher contrast.  

The kids backs are to the viewer but don't need faces if you can get the shoulders and line-of-body accurate.  

Postcard.

Color and comp 1.

Color and edges study - more satisfied with wave edges in this one than final.

Fine with color, not with value. Foreground need be darker. The ground should reflect the sky hues and it does. 

Oh YEAH, INKTOBER - NOT! Art is a glorious endeavor, which is why all people love and respect , support and don't mind tax money supporting it in schools and life in general. OPP HAND

Perspective is your visual relationship to the subject - if you draw a full 180° panoramic view you'll get a crescendo and decrescendo view of things once translated to paper.  If you for some misguided reason (I'm so judgey) draw a full 360° view you'll create what is called a stereographic image. <--TRUE

This view has a vanishing point distributed equally throughout the image hence the circular 2D shape and the 3D spherical illusion if the perspective is properly accomplished.  It's a bit tricky. <--ALSO TRUE

 Below I tried it on my house and neighbors on my street - I live in a cul-de-sac which lends it self nicely to this format because of it's real life circular shape in plan view.  (the homes are all still boxes on boxes) 

It makes everything in the foreground more detailed and creates a planet like effect where the beholder is in the center.  And the ground takes over 1/2 the image! The rest of the world disappears behind the initial objects.  These structures are all 2 stories tall and all true details are lost in this format.  I like the gimmicky (<--HATE THAT WORD) nature of it and I have seen some photographic eye-candy produced this way but I really don't see the point unless you are doing a familiar skyline and buildings with some major height - even then the hight of the buildings will skew - but look at the cool photo of the snow helmet people below - that's a cool effect. YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT.  SO LOOK AT IT.  IT's A FUCKEN SPHERCUL (sphere and circle combined to make a new word) *pats self on back... SO I guess it's another graphic tool to use where it fits and not where it don't ---and reveals/creates interest.  Otherwise useless.  Also, we have a new dog. 

It's like their on their own mini-planet and could fall the fuck off at any moment. 

WTF? Why take a normal photo when you could do this wonky shit.  <--cuz, THE INTERNET!

INKTOBER 2018 - Day 02,03 - Nightmare Cookies, WTF is a Kolbold? Something to do with Pollution and Remorse of Time

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite

All are on their rounds to-night,—

   In the wan moon’s silver ray

   Thrives their helter-skelter play.

From Hallowe'en by Joel Benton

I have more drawing done but have to post them and they all don't fit the same theme so they'll be on a different post when I feel like it.  

The arms are invisible.  Not the winged-arm claw things - those just look pretty to distract you, then the invisibles grab you and your face is licked into a wet over-cooked pasta consistency and eaten.  Also, drawing with ink on watercolor paper sucks.  

It started out as a watercolor and quickly devolved into this shit.  Reminds me of a hemorrhoid I once had. To the touch, it felt like a bursting popping boba (soft and special) but the image below is in sync with the overall experience. 

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INKTOBER 2018 - Day 1 on Day 3 - It Must Be Cold With No Skin On

I'm behind already. I didn't participate fully last year, and drew a big fat nothing the year before, due to feeling lousy and depressed by what was happening in our country. Been a year or 2 and nothing's changed except that I feel like producing some work.  Took a while to find all my tools.  I said to myself, "Danny, Golden god of Everything Good, do everything on the iPad this year."  But Danny, Golden god of Everything Good, changed his mind.


Meet Emily, the corpse bride, from the movie of the same.  Watched last night with the females of the house. Mare-Bear fell asleep and Stella cuddled a bit with Momma.

Attack of the Porg!

Haven't posted in awhile and I didn't complete Inktober due to Trump induced depression.  What a horrible role model for our nation.  My wife bought me an iPad Pro for Xmas and I'm finally getting the hang of some drawing apps.  This Porg was done with Adobe Draw.  I'm thinking I like Procreate better. I'm also generally upset at Adobe for the whole subscription service thing.  PEACE, OUT.