Illustrations, Sketches, and Art Supply Reviews

  • Aug 1, 2022

    Cold Breath

    barking head illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    This one came together pretty quick this morning, the most difficulty I had was doing something with the background so the cold breath would pop. I ended up replacing the initial screentone option with the one you see, and I think it worked out for the best. This is a great example of an illustration that originally didn’t have black hair, but I fucked it up so it got some black hair, hah. When in doubt and shit, like Wally said.

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  • Jul 6, 2022

    Barking Head

    barking head illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    Some of its there, some of its gone, some of it works better in ink and some of it works better as a sketch. So is life. I tried it twice as a pencil version and those didn’t work either. Mother fuckin’ art yo.

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  • May 10, 2022

    Woodcased Pencil Comparison and Master List

    Pencils in a row “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

    Updated Aug. 29, 2023

    Pencils are all consuming monsters of comparison. You can’t help but want to try one against another. The Mitsubishi 9800 is pretty good in HB? Better try to get a B or a 2B. How does it feel compared to the 9800EW in HB? Is it the same core? Is it the same core as the Mitsubishi UniStar HB? How about the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni in HB? How does the Mitsubishi 9800 compare to it’s direct rival, the Tombow 8900 in HB? How does it compare to American pencils like the General’s Kimberly in HB? How does it compare to vintage JIS stock pencils, or defunct no longer in production pencils like the Colleen 2020 in HB, or the Pentel Black Polymer 999 in HB?

    The list goes on. I have two sets of active pencils that I can’t help but flip back and forth through. Checking the merits of each one, especially comparing how they feel from one paper type to the next, and a couple of containers of one off pencils that I can try whenever I’m feeling the itch too. It’s an awful affliction.

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  • May 3, 2022

    Sitting There

    female nude sitting illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    I paused super hard on this series, but I’m back again. Maybe a few more of these and I’ll have enough of them that I like to do a show with. I haven’t done a show in 10 years since I was in college really, at least one of my own. I think that would be fun. Hell to make the frames, but fun.

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  • May 2, 2022

    Chin Down

    floating head illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    I can draw a head in profile facing right, I know you guys were curious.

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  • Apr 26, 2022

    Cry Baby

    crying floating head with handle bar mustache illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    You better not say nothing about him crying, or he’ll cry some more.

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  • Mar 20, 2022

    Scary Larry

    dismembered creepy floating head illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    More screentone, used some gel-pen white out for most of the highlights here.

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  • Mar 13, 2022

    Creepoid

    dismembered creepy floating head illustration inked with pentel brush pen screentone

    I love the term creepoid, it is the name of some band that an ex-girlfriend of mine has a shirt for, and it’s a cool shirt with a R. Crumb drawing on it. This one is slightly bigger than my last head, but still relatively small (on 9”x6” Bristol).

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