Saturday, 5 March 2016

Saturday night

Everyone's having a grand time playing guitar hero and drinking their rum. Out celebrating birthdays, getting over relationships. Meanwhile in planet boredom I'm sitting here dotting away this mad Griffin cat owl eagle thingy.

Then I realise how much I'm loving these pens I should really donate my old unused faber technical pens.
There's a young lass I work with with ambitions of art school next year. I've no doubt she'll get herself in but I'm going to give her them since her specialism is in the graphics/illustration field and they're something I think she should experience for her kit. She's never owned these sort of pens before so I think it's only fair I clean them up correctly and get them filled with fresh ink. No doubt the old faber ink I used years ago will be drying out and clogging the chamber.

So you can look forward to a post on removing the dried out gunk which you will come across if you get a set second hand.

Although to be honest it's the easiest process ever. But it's worth posting about for anyone curious or in need of a rough idea on how to do it.

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Some latest illustrations

Lately I've been doodling away on some pieces enjoying a variety of pens, pencils and such. Mostly through bordom I will admit but more so from frustration.
The few I'm showing were drawn with faber castell pencils, my stano•pens and a pilot G-TEC-C4.
It's safe to say my "style" wavers from tool to tool. I do find it extremely frustrating not having a set way of drawing or illustrating like many other artists. But I guess I'm still just trying to find my way and own little style.