A blast from the past

1-3-2020

A marker sketch from 2020, back when I was drawing on actual paper with pen and ink, and markers. I didn’t think much of this picture in 2020, but now I like it a lot. Whenever I like an old picture, I think, “I should have stuck with the style and gotten really good at it. I would have a style!” Instead I jump from one style to another. I’m fickle and easily distracted. What a mess!

To make time for working on my book, I’ve stopped studying Spanish, and Swedish, and Finnish, and Japanese. I need that study time for my big project — my book. Instead of studying in the morning, I now work on my book for an hour. I miss learning all of those crazy languages, but my time is short, and art is long.

Al Fresco Art Club, March 22, 2020 -- Real Art Day

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Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was, once again, to use traditional media of any kind. I chose pencil, pen, ink, and Zig markers. I drew an Olmec Head, a stone head carved from a gigantic block of stone. I have several of these colossal heads in my upcoming children’s picture book, the one with the working title of The Butterfly That Airlifted A Burro Over The Wall. After I drew the Olmec head, I scanned the drawing and opened it in Clip Studio Paint, where I cleaned up some scruffy marks, adjusted the levels, and added a label. Big fun!