new wave girl

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art, drawing, new wave haircut, portrait

sketchbook sundays: portrait of albert einstein

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Albert Einstein peers reflectively in this black and white drawing created with Micron 05 fine-point pen and Sharpie marker. From a 300 dpi scan.

sketchbook sundays

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art, drawing, fine point pen, pen and ink, portrait, sharpie, sharpie marker, sketchbook sundays

 
Smoke
Micron 08 fine point pen and Sharpie Pro King Size marker

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matthew

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art, drawing, fine point pen, guitar, ink, pen and ink, portrait, self portrait, sharpie, sharpie marker

 
Matthew
Micron 05 fine point pen and Sharpie Pro King Size marker

Self portrait of your moderator here at MWSNM, with my old 12-string acoustic guitar.

Too Bad for Them We’re Out of Here!

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acrylic, art, face, nineties comics, original, portrait, sharpie marker, sharpie paint pen, too bad for them we're out of here

 
Too Bad for Them We’re Out of Here!
acrylic/enamel on canvas
16 x 20 in.

Too Bad for Them We’re Out of Here, loosely based on a panel from X-Men #5, revels in the exaggerated grittiness of 90s comic books.
Here’s to Extreme Everything!

Acrylic paint and Derwent Inktense water-based ink combine with line work done in Sharpie Paint Pen. Three coats of gloss acrylic varnish add brightness, protection, sheen, and durability.

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pastel portrait 14

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Pastel Portrait 14
Pastel and ink on toned tan paper.

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the soul’s midnight
it must give way to the dawn
but lord knows the night is long
– timezone lafontaine

pastel portrait 10

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Pastel Portrait Ten.
The smiling face of your Martian moderator here.
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Fear nothing. You might not find that in any drawing tutorial, but it lies at the heart of our approach to these pastel drawings.

We struggled with pen for many years. Ink makes demands for perfection. You can’t massage ink into the right place. You can’t undraw the mistake.

But with pastels – especially these new oil pastels we’re trying – you can reshape reality at will.

When you know a mistake isn’t going to wreck anything, you can draw with absolute confidence. Be bold. Coax the shapes into existence, painting your subject with color and light. If you get it wrong, blend in the right color, then redefine the shapes with light and shadow.

Bob Ross talked about this absolute confidence. On his canvases, he said, he could move mountains and redirect rivers. He could build and destroy. He could make it anything he wanted.

So can you.