About 35 minutes – doing a little better on staying in my time limit the last couple of days. This one’s pencil, sepia Inktense pencil, and a couple of watercolor pencils. Plus water, of course.
The substrate is Stonehenge paper, a heavier-weight form of Bristol board made with (usually) 100% cotton fiber. It takes liquid exceptionally [...]
Two in a row without running over my time limit!
So, yeah. Bat-like face, wide froggy mouth, eight limbs, creepy. Maybe I should’ve saved this one for Hallowe’en this year?
Kykanos is derived from the Greek kyknos, related to the Latin cygnus – “swan.” I have no idea what that other word means, it just sounds good.
The last several dragons have run a bit over on time…in one case, by almost an hour. While I really do like the effects possible with layer upon layer [...]
Number 4 of a set of 4.
Today’s element: Air.
Most of the classical systems of the elements feature a fifth element, usually semi-spiritual in nature (ether, space, akasha, void…and so on). I’m planning on revisiting this theme again later, with a slightly different array of elements and perhaps a different number of tiles.