These are sketches taken from my sketch books. I like to mix media, including sepia crayon, charcoal, coffee, and ink. Sketching helps me brainstorm, play with layouts, and render better digital i
The Three Beauties. Sepia pencil.
Beauty One- detail.
While in Peace Corps (2008 - 2010), I had a lot of time to draw and learn by doing. We got very little news where we were, but all of the Life and New Yorker magazines we got were sending pretty ominous messages about the economy and the state of the dollar.
Below is a piece I did of the 'new dollar.'
Done in watercolor, pencil, and India ink.
Pen and ink
Prismacolors and inking markers
This page feels awesome to touch. I stained the paper with coffee and tea over the course of a weekend before I ever started drawing.
Pencil, Sepia pencil, india ink
I should've been paying attention, but I was sketching in class.
An inked and colored render of the sketch. If you look in my digital work, you can see how I carried this one step farther and created it in Illustrator.
Pencil sketch. 2" x 2"
The same sketch, blown up to 11"x17" and inked.
Preparation for a Mark Twain piece. Colored pencil, sepia pencil, gouache, and inking markers.
