the world may think i'm foolish. fountain pen ink + 1909 tarot card study.

it is!! i know some people think this deck is basic but i loveee the compositions, i feel like i'm learning a lot while redrawing.

the world may think i'm foolish. fountain pen ink + 1909 tarot card study.

thank you so much!

1: Star dappled centaur
#monstermarch

a fountain pen ink drawing in my sketchbook of a pair of vintage brass candlesticks. the candle on the left is fairly normal though the burnt wick indicates it's been used at least once; but the candle on the right has melted into an extremely baroque, sculptural mass of blobs curving down and spilling into the saucer-like bottom of the holder. at the bottom og the page i've written a note: "after the power outage".

sketching the aftermath of a power outage. why was just one candle so dramatic.

hehehehehe just getting started....

a work in progress ink and brush illustration on bristol paper inspired by Art Nouveau architecture. it's an asymmetrical, decorative frame made up of a mix of bold and delicate lines, resembling a series of dragonfly wings.

a work in progress ink and brush illustration on bristol paper inspired by Art Nouveau architecture. it's an asymmetrical, decorative frame made of twisting branch-like shapes looping in on themselves, some resembling carved fish swimming upstream.

today's inks. if a client asks me for Art Nouveau, they're gonna GET Art Nouveau. #illustration

HAHAHA these are gold. perfect. no notes.

a shot of ohtori tower surrounded by incomplete half crescent balconies jutting out from various buildings, the framing and steelwork nakedly visible

utena ascending a staircase precariously and impossibly hanging over a mix of abstract shapes that constitute buildings

ohtori academy glows as anthy turns out the lights

juri and the fencing club stand in front of a deconstructed wall cut through with white and red paint, its windows stained glass with abstract shapes - some filled, some not.

It is simply never a bad time to think about the architectural design in Adolescence of Utena

It helps the original show was also primarily dabbling in neoclassical and rococo architecture to begin with. The intense abstraction of the movie's ohtori academy is going to obviously signpost the passage of time and the deconstruction of old ideals even if you don't know the exact inspiration

thank you 🖤

a traditional ink and brush on paper commission of Shen Qinqiu and Luo Binghe from The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System danmei series by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Shen Qinqiu is floating down from the upper left corner and elegantly holds a paper fan, despite his wrist being yanked downwards by Luo Binghe, who looks up at him with an admiring and obsessed expreasion from the bottom right corner. where Binghe touches the fan, it is becoming corrupted and falling to shreds.

shen qinqiu / luo binghe commission for a friend #danmei #mxtx #svsss

respirer

i wish i had centered this better. oh well. pretend i left space at the top for the chapter title typography.

this is soooooo satisfying. i can't wait. loved the preview text for the book, too.

yaay hope to see ya!

an fountain pen ink drawing in my sketchbook of an anime-style youth sitting casually on the ground in a big tulle skirt, a shirt with the sleeves cut off, striped socks and combat boots. light, minimal linework picks out the barest indications of detail; the implied direction of the tulle's pleats, the frayed edges of the shirt, studded buckle straps on the shoes, the youth's face and messy hair which they push back with one hand.

how it felt to wear tulle.

thank you so much! ✒️🖤

i'll be tabling at fanime's oasis night market!

a fountain pen ink drawing in my sketchbook. it's a study of a mannequin, seen from behind, wearing a 17th century petticoat and robe with scalloped accents down the robe's front and the skirt's hem, along with a high, beribboned wig.

g u i l l o t i n e

look at them. obsessed.

ordered! as both a reader and a comics artist, i'm following what Bonedust Press is doing with indie, illustrated(!!) paperback books with great interest. also, how can you say no to the mini paper skeleton.

light sketch lines in fountain pen ink in my sketchbook blocking in the shapes of a tree branch with leaves and a cluster of flowers. in the background is an art book propped open to the black and white photo of the Rococo-era textile i am studying

the finished fountain pen ink drawing in my sketchbook, of a tree branch with leaves and a cluster of five-petalled flowers. in some places, details of the leaf shapes and twisting stems are picked out with gestural hatch marks; in other places the detail falls away, leaving only minimal or implied lines

another Rococo textile study. fountain pen + ink.

closeup of a fountain pen ink drawing in a sketchbook of a twig branching out to little leaves and clustered seedpods. it is a study of a plant illustration for developing a textile pattern from 1735.

fountain pen ink study of a Rococo textile pattern.

At last I have done it about half ;;

a black and white comic page showing two characters in parallel, the left with long hair and glasses and the right with short hair and wearing a tailored suit, each pulling on a thread that spirals out into huge abstract loops that converge towards the bottom of the page. drawn with a nib ink pen, the linework is minimal, focused on the contrast between sharp-edged black and white shapes vs the gestural, airy drybrush strokes in the figures. the handlettered text cascading down the page reads: "it was not me that was disappearing, / but my boundaries. / he was not being conjured, / but discovered."

the pencils for the comic page described in the last image.

the lettering practice for the comic, BESPOKE, done with fountain pen ink and red pencil on separate sheets of paper and vellum scattered on my desk. in the foreground is my hand holding my trusty Ames lettering guide.

sometimes people don't believe that i drew and lettered this traditionally. well. now i've done it TWICE 🛹

This (again) is the landscape you’ll walk as you draw, get comfy with moving around it, possibly even a full circuit in one panel! (Also start with an eight-pager or a four-pager or a one pager and FINISH IT)

this is Real and good advice!! i always tell people to start with short stories too. im saving this graphic lol

wait, that stained glass is beautiful!!!!!