Here's a quick sketch I did in pen early this morning while I was battling another night of insomnia. Surprisingly it came out pretty good considering my eyes were practically closed while I drew it!While this isn't the style I'm going to use for my dinosaur-themed, Rec. cover (see previous post below of my rough, Rec. cover study), it was a fun, little diversion from sleep deprivation. At the very least, it was additional practice drawing dinosaurs and I got another blog post out of it! Stay tuned for some pencil sketches in the more cartoony style I'll be using for the Rec. cover.
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Seriously? I can barely draw stick figures at lunchtime. You - and people like you - astound me. It really is a gift, you know, even if you DO have to work to cultivate and improve it.
Wow, you're good! I can only imagine what I'll see when you're well rested :)
Thanks for sharing this.
Hey "get zapped," thanks for stopping by and for the kind words.
Most of my early morning, sleep-deprived doodles get turned down by birds to line their cages, but I think I lucked out a bit this time.
I'm a bit curious myself to see what I can produce when my brain is firing on a few more cylindars. Let's hope that day arrives soon. This 2-4 hours of sleep business each night is getting REALLY old!
Cool - I think it looks great. It's dark without being murky and the highlights you left are really sweet.
Thanks Robert! I was hoping you'd dig it seeing as how you're knee deep in dinos yourself at the moment. It was fun to do a realistic rendering even though I'll be using a more cartoony style for the cover I'm doing. I haven't done a pen & ink with lots of cross-hatching in a while.
Mrs. Chili:
Thanks for stopping by! I agree 100% (ok, maybe 99.7%.) Being born with a talent is a lucky break, but you only grow as an "artist" and maintain whatever level of talent and skill you've attained by how much you put into buliding on that raw ability.
If you don't use it you may not lose it, but you definitely get rusty and "tread water" in a state of mediocrity or sufficient competence until you put in the time and produce those 50 lame drawings to get arrive at one that you feel truly represents your level of ability.
Sometimes you luck out and land in the "zone" without knowing how you got there, but those moments are seldom the reality. There's a lot more struggle and sweat behind the "magic" than a lot of people probably realize.
Woah, deep stuff! Just chalk it up to my sleep- deprived state. I like this T-rex head as well and think I fell briefly into some fairly pleasant zone when I drew him.
I'll bet you can do a little better than stick figures Mrs. Chili. I think there's a little false modesty going on here--lol! You could probably have that stick figure looking like a velociraptor in no time if you really focused all your creative energy!
Um, I think you overestimate my visual arts abilities. My talent lies in drawing pictures with words.
Drawing" pictures with words is indeed an art form unto itself. I'm glad you have a talent that must bring you personal satisfaction as well as enjoyment to others.
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