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Stone ink

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Well, the actual drawing part of this is finished- I'm just down to the mind numbing, overly tedious job of applying the tones. I hate the computer process with any sort of art. To me, it's the least interesting part. I tend to speed through it as fast as I can because I hate it so much. I also hate that I'm in the decline of real, physical illustration. Nowadays, it seems like nearly everyone does almost everything digitally- penciling, painting, line work, inking... everything. And it's funny to me, because the best looking digital stuff imitates a 'real life' process. Like, something looks good because it looks like it was made with pastel, or oil, or chalk, but was all digitally rendered. I do appreciate the irony in using a computer, photoshop and a tablet (and whatever else electronic eccentricities- which combined could literally cost thousands) to imitate a $3 box of pastels. But anyway, it’s frustrating to have to use a computer to imitate wha

Drawing Table Tuesday

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( Sort of... ) Ok, so I noticed that I don't really post very often lately and I was trying to think of ways to make more posts that won't take up too much of my time. This is what I came up with- Every Tuesday, I take a picture of whatever's on the drawing table the way it was left the night before. (since most of my drawing time is on my main one day off -Monday) The only problem with getting this started is this- I finished what I was working on yesterday and hung them up, so... there's nothing there. The very last thing I worked on last night were some cards that I threw over on my lightbox before I went to bed. So here's a picture of my lightbox/cutting table- I'm in the middle of drawing cards of all of the X-men from the 90's cartoon. No reason really, other than they're quick and I thought they'd be fun to draw. I'll probably post them when I've finished them. So, in conclusion, here's to the beginning of maybe more than a doze

Stone pencil

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I think I'm in the final stretch for this drawing- at least the pencil drawing part of it. Maybe just another good sit down or two with it and it should be finished. I'm completely unsure how long it'll take to finish it with pen and ink. I'm sure it's either way more time, or way less time than I think.

Stone thumbnail

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Staci was asked a while ago if she wanted to be in an exhibit in Huntington. They said they were still looking for some work, Staci asked me if I would want to do something for it and I told her sure. I could've just put in whatever I had sitting around that I had already finished for something else, like some of those sketchbook drawings, but I think that's kind of cheap. I think it's kind of crappy when artists show the same 2 drawings over and over again. I wanted to do something just for that show that wasn't used for anything else before. So, I dusted off my doodle book I usually tote around with me and flipped through it. I always have about 50 things planned to draw ahead of time that are already thumbnailed out, or at least have been planned to some degree. This was one of them. Up top is a tiny thumbnail of part of the drawing I'm doing for the show. It's something I've had plans to draw for just about two years now, but never had a reason to draw i