couple of mornings of quick still life arrangements

Been feeling busy recently, but not busy enough to get my homework done....I have to get on that.  BUT FOR NOW!  Still life arrangements!  Not the most interesting, and not the cleanest, but I plan on getting a good setup here starting next week

little morning sketching

Just a few quicker sketches as I double fisted coffee this morning.

Quick(ish) Academy Awards Sketch

I love playing with the loose sketchy fun of the Pentel Brushpen!

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Here's the pencil versions of both

Homework finished.

sheesh that took forever!  Here's two shots showing the progression of both illustrations.  I'm not really happy with either of them, there's something in my line quality that just feels goofy.  The second building's perspective is way better, but it just feels too "bleh" to me.   I like the pencil versions of both more than the finished product....Anyways, here they are.

illustration 1 finished

not particularly happy with it, but ive wasted enough time. My brain hurts, and ive discovered that I hate Copic markers.  They smear the ink layers, even printed and dried ones, and the fine nibs dry out 2x as fast as prismacolor.  They also don't layer as well.  Live and learn I guess.

More Cleanup

Here's a progress shot of the illustration i'm working on.  This is my first clean layer, done all freehand with a black prismacolor pencil.  I love the creamy thickness of line the prismacolor produces, but I hate how quickly I run through them!  After this layer is nailed down, I will create a final layer in black copic ink, photocopy it, and test out some tonal variations.  Once i've nailed a tonal I like, I'll lay it down on the inked final layer, and photocopy the results to get it on a white, non-parchment background.

Whew that's a bunch of work.  And I have one more illustration to do!

Here's the first clean layer in prismacolor pencil...

Here's the final rough layer with all the details I want included in the final illustration.