Okay, so this may or may not count... (Drawings)

I haven't been posting very often, and I know this. I apologize.


Getting out of my own way to deal with photos and upload them and then write about them and post them is harder than I thought it would be. (Duh!)


But anyway, here is what I'd like to post for today...


There's this blog I found via one of the websites I frequent.
It's this: Draw! Sketch! Doodle!
It consists of weekly drawing prompts.


These drawings are my response to this week's prompt, which was to draw coffee mugs.

This one I have done in Inktense water-soluble pencils and plain graphite on 2.5" x 3.5" (standard Artist Trading Card--or "ATC"--size) watercolor paper.


I realize how "off" it looks on the table. I focused more on the coffee mug itself, giving little attention to the background.


PLEASE DISREGARD THE BACKGROUND. Urrgh. That is all.

This image has something of a story to go along with it. It is also done on a standard ATC-sized paper. Done in Inktense pencils and ink.


I worked on it first, just with my Inktense pencils, and then I started using what pigment I had put on the paper as kind of a palette. I would take some water on my brush and mess up all these colors I had already laid down on this paper. What started out as a watercolor pencil sketch turned out to be a mess of neutral and cool colors.


Transferring the pigment on the brush over to the other piece of paper, I finished the painting shown above.


After I was done with the first painting, I took a pen and went over the smudged, muddy watercolor pencils in this painting.


I think I am more satisfied with this drawing than the first; I like how simple it is, and how it was, for the most part, a fluke.


My scanner didn't like these light colors and the real life version of this piece is much brighter.


Both of these I may decide to work on later on, but I'm leaving them as-is for now. I'm not going to bother to upload them onto the gallery for the ATC website I frequent because of their unfinished nature, but if anybody would like me to finish them/add to them or trade them as-is, please leave me a comment or drop me an e-mail! (My e-mail address is rekaso@gmail.com.)