I've been doing a lot of personal sketching and whatnot, just not posting it anywhere. I thought I'd try out some of those techniques on this week's Illustration Friday topic, "Magic". It's been a long time since I'd participated, but with bowing out of Inktober, I figured I should try to get some art out in October. Feedback is always appreciated.

Labels: brush pen, faerie, Illustration Fridays, ink, Magic, pen and ink

This was an image I drew quite a while back now, but for lack of new content I decided to dig into the reserves and add some color to some inks I was always fond of. This was originally done for the topic "Troll" over at Drawer Geeks (man I miss that site).

For me this was the first ink drawing that approached the same sort of things I was comfortable doing digitally (without the "Undo" button). You can see my original ink post here. I had originally intended to finish colors for this and submit that to Drawer Geeks, but couldn't quite line up something compelling. It wasn't until I sat down to color it now that I realized I wanted it to be moody, but was giving it a dusk color scheme. Not to say dusk can't be moody, it just wasn't the right fit. At any rate, please enjoy, and let me know what you think as always.

Labels: bones, flames, Magic, Troll

Here's another one for the Flight Forum challenges. I was too busy to participate in challenge #2, but I may finish the piece I had in mind regardless at a later date. Enjoy!

Labels: challenge, Flight, Magic