MOAR Halloween

More Halloween art in the more creepy category:

Grim Reaper

Skull and Tree

Skeleton Puppet

Halloween Approacheth...

HALLOWEEN!

This is my favorite time of year for drawing, true story. Here are some previews for you:

It's not all cutesy for-kids-only Halloween art, I promise. Here's my fav so far:

Jack-o-Lantern of Awesome!

More to come
...bwahahaha!!

Time for a Touch of Whimsy

As much as I love charcoal drawings of leaves
(and I srsly do)
I felt I needed to take a break and do something different.

So I perused through my files of old drawings and found an Inktober drawing that I really liked:

I've wanted to see it in color ever since I finished this sketch.

It took a slightly different turn than I had originally imagined, but that's how the creative process goes sometimes.
Here's the finished piece:

You can find it in all the Suspended Dreams shops. Check it out. Like it. Share it.
Because that would be great.
Thanks!

Two Tone WIP

After those tentacles, I wondered what this octopus:

...would look like in two tones.

The results:

Which is fun. And then my brother-in-law asked me if I was trying to become "The Octopus Lady."

...no?

Let me start by saying, I don't have anything against octopi. They're fascinating creatures, besides being very popular these days, and they're pretty fun to draw.

...but my REAL passion...
(is going to sound dumb, brace yourself)
...is drawing LEAVES.

WIP Leaves in charcoal drawing

This was done digitally; I used the "charcoal" tool for this instead of the pen. Personally, I like the textures that resulted (plus it took a FRACTION of the time!), I hope other people like it, too.

This is a work-in-progress, in case you were thinking it looked a little unfinished. I'm going to add other nature/organic embellishments - add some rhythm and flow in there.

Again, thanks for watching. Keep checking back for the finished picture.

Wow I love drawing leaves...

Cuz Octopus is Weird

Christmas is over, which means my feverish knitting and crochet craze has also come to an end.

So it's time to make ART

For the last two months I have been thinking about two-tone drawings and how much I love looking at them. Even when they're terrible, they are AWESOME.

(For those who don't know, by "two-tone drawing" I'm referring to drawings in only white and black ink on toned/colored paper)

In the next few weeks, I'll be getting stuff like this out of my system:

Octopus Tentacles two-tone drawing

This drawing, by the way, can be printed on phone cases, notebooks, t-shirts and lots of other random things you might want to own. Check out the store links, it is now in TeePublic and Redbubble and will be appearing in DesignByHumans in a few days.

Thanks for watching! :)