h e x INK s t u d i o

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.