Who can resist a juicy bit of gossip?
(drawn for Inktober 2017 – day 23 – “juicy”)
drawings & illustrations
From my daily drawings…
Porcupine – pen and ink. Drawn with a TWSBI Mini fountain pen (extra fine nib) using Platinum Carbon Ink. Shaded with a Kuretake no. 8 fountain brush pen filled with Noodler’s Lexington Gray ink (diluted 4 parts water to 1 part ink). Digital scan adjusted and masked in Photoshop. Converted to vector art and resized in Illustrator.
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I’m not the animated cartoon fish you’re looking for.
From my daily drawings…
Clownfish – pen and watercolor. Drawn with a TWSBI Mini fountain pen (extra fine nib) using Platinum Carbon Ink. Winsor & Newton watercolors. Digital scan adjusted and masked in Photoshop. Converted to vector art and resized in Illustrator.
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This bird remains calm, cool, and collected.
A.K.A., I remember back when everyone wore a hat. Now, get off my lawn. 😉
Unflappable – pen and watercolor. Drawn with a TWSBI Mini fountain pen (extra fine nib) using Platinum Carbon Ink. Winsor & Newton watercolors. Digital scan adjusted and edited in Photoshop. Background color applied in Illustrator.
Based on an updated (with fez) version of this daily drawing:

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My friend John Borack drumming with Popdudes at the Orange County Fair.
Adventures in culinary excess at the Orange County Fair.

Spent the day sketching at the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa, California. Looked at the animals (including humans), ate junk food and watched a friend perform with a rock band. Continue reading “Urban Sketching the County Fair” →
From my daily drawings…
Pen and watercolor parakeet. Drawn on Canson XL Mix Media paper with Uni Pin Fine Line pens and Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils. Digital scan adjusted and edited in Photoshop. Background color applied in Illustrator.
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From my daily drawings…
Pen and watercolor kiwi bird portrait. This kiwi bird was drawn on Canson XL mixed media paper using a TWSBI Mini extra fine nib fountain pen filled with Platinum Carbon Black ink and shaded with a Kuretake no. 8 fountain brush pen filled with Noodler’s Lexington Gray ink (diluted 4 parts water to 1 part ink).
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