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I’ve been drawing a lot of dragons in my sketchbooks but it seemed like it would be fun to properly work one out digitally!
I took the time to do some rendering tests on its head as well, to test some techniques I’ve been using on paper as a digital painting approach:
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I recently got my hands on some kids’ tempera art sticks, after watching some artists I love show off their use of them to add abstraction and texture to their sketchbook work.1
These are not professional tools – they aren’t opaque, they are likely not lightfast, they are slippery and goopy and inconsistent across colours – but they ARE fun. Extremely fun. Good silly fun.
I’ve been using them solo and combining them with neocolor iis; it’s forced me into a slightly less tight style that I think has been very good for my brain.
I’ve made a lot of stuff I wouldn’t give the time of day with this technique, but that’s part of learning a new technique! That’s also just part of sketchbooks. Gotta put the stinkers somewhere, right?
In the interest of transparency and showing the whole spectrum of the experience, I have included drawings I am not personally at all interested in/happy with/attached to as well here. It’s your guess which are which tho!
2 responses to “Doodling with Chunky Supplies”
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these are soo stunning—impossible to pick just one favorite! colors and shapes are a delight 🙂
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Heck! thank you!
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I’m really excited to announce that I’m going to be tabling at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this coming weekend! As you might guess, it’s located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Mattamy Athletic Center – old fogeys like me will know the building as the Maple Leaf Gardens, though it’s been through a thorough reno.
I’ll be tabling on the ice rink floor, table 197B:
It’s been 6 years since I last tabled at a convention, and almost 4 years since I sold physical things online through my own online store, so I have lots of exciting new stuff that I’m really pumped to share with folks!
You’ll be able to finally get your hands on a collection of all the existing Lomy in the Abyss comics! I’ll have a zine of both of my short comics about Adin! I’ll have a few print copies of my goofy pulp scifi novella about time orbs! And I’ll have a preview of my wizard puberty zine, which I’ve been working on this spring and summer and can’t resist the urge to show off – though sadly it wasn’t possible to finish it in time to print for TCAF!
I will also have art prints, including the Tangled Dragon, a few other favourite pieces, and some much requested classics.
Speaking of much requested classics, I’ll have my remaining copies of By Crom!
I’ll also have Orin and the Dead Man’s Sword and its accompanying art zine!
Lomy will be represented as well, with my riso zines Resonant Realms and The Listening Station:
And I won’t forget my Pocket Dungeons, both in zine and pocket pack format!
I’ll also have Wolfspell, this being (I think) the first time it’s been sold in physical form in Toronto, so definitely not one to miss!
And I’ve got blankets featuring my Tower of the Forest Wizard, Seven Odd Islands, and Realm of the River Dragon playmaps – these turned out gorgeous and it’s so exciting to have them at a show finally!
And last but not least, I’m going to be bringing some receipt zines I’ve made on my thermal printer; they are a really fun experiment in ephemera on my part, and I’m really curious to hear what y’all think of them!
If you’re going to be checking out TCAF please do say hi! And if you’re on the fence about it, let me pitch it one more time: it’s Toronto’s premiere independent comics festival, maybe one of the best ones in North America, and free to attend! Saturday and Sunday this weekend, downtown! Comics galore! Hope to see you there!
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Not sure how I never uploaded the final of this! but here’s my finished knight portrait in oil pastels. I’m very happy with the shadowy blue light effect on the whole thing!
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my partner leant me his 27mm prime and it is indeed as delightful as promised!
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taking my camera on dusk walks has been legit incredible – can’t wait till we get some of those deep blue summer dusks later this year.
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way, way more stuff! and I picked up a tube of W&N perylene black, an inky green-black that is absolutely hitting the spot for me. next up: living creatures? let’s not get TOO wacky…
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taking over a whole sketchbook spread with some fountain pen inks I put into brush pens. inked with a platinum prefounte and platinum carbon ink. extra rendering done with pencil crayons. yet another dragon I opted not to give wings.
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