Gah! Shopping season is here! I have already made an expensive mistake! It’ll be fine, I’ll get a refund, but I blew $100 on a gift for my cousin, only it turned out I bought him the wrong DVD collection. I ordered it from Hamilton and they are good about returns, but it means I’m short that hundo until I get my refund. I have virtually nothing for anyone else. I dunno, its not a good year. Some years are like that. I’d almost rather skip the whole thing. Or float it until February.
As promised… Art. It’s color pencil in my kraft sketchbook and it was inspired by a background character in the second season of Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. Sadly there are only 2 seasons and they left it at a weird, not quite cliffhanger, but super open ended where there needs to be more and it never reached an ending ending, only an ending for now. Anyway, here is the art.
I used gold gel pen for the accents. It’s a combo of my cheap ass Cezanne (Creative Mark) and Prismacolors. I’m still building my collection of Prismacolors. I pick them up at the art supply store. In the meantime I’m glad to have cheapos I don’t worry about using up. Of course Prismacolors are the best. I regret buying so many Cezannes a little, I have so many it will take ages to use them up.. But I am using them! So it’s cool! I even sharpened a few! That is a big deal for me! I tend to sharpen my pencils only when it is a desperate situation.
I’ve been doing a bit more color pencil right now because of the frustrations with ink pens + markers which I’ve talked about before. I am still dying to marker more though! I might try another sketch soon.
Always cool to see your art.
Holidays can be stressful . I hope the merrier moments help tip the balance!