Drawn with Pentel Sign pen on marker paper, colored digitally © 2015 Stephanie Smith
I couldn’t resist this week’s Illustration Friday word: “whimsical.”
I also decided to experiment a bit with some new digital brushes I hadn’t used before, so the colors are a little different than my usual. It was refreshing to use color again, after spending nearly all of “Inktober” working in black-and-white!
Copyright 2015 Stephanie Smith Drawn with Black and Grey Pentel Color Brushes on marker paper over a pencil sketch.
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “stuffed” and out of all my fat animal doodles this little mouse won out.
Remember, #Inktober is still going strong over on my social media feeds, so head on over for the doodles and other drawings that are showing up there!
Drawn for Illustration Friday in October 2015, copyright 2015 Stephanie Smith
Today’s post does double-duty for #Inktober and for #IllustrationFriday, which had the prompt “Star” this week.
I’m still keeping up with the Inktober challenge, posting a drawing or sketch every day for the month of October on my social media feeds. Follow along with @Critterwings on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!
This drawing was made with a LePen Technical Drawing Brush pen on Stratmore smooth bristol paper. I had no idea LePen made a brush pen! Not bad responsiveness, the felt nib was a lot softer than some of the similar models from Pitt or Sakura. I also used a white gel ballpoint for some of the smaller stars in the sky.
The concept sketches for this drawing were made for last week’s Illustration Friday prompt: “prize” Alas, I didn’t have time to finish before the end of the week, but it still makes a nice entry for Inktober today!
Drawn with the Pentel Sign Pen on Strathmore vellum surface bristol.
© 2015 Stephanie Smith
Finally a return to Illustration Friday! They picked an appropriate word for the start of Inktober, and just when I was challenged to add more solid blacks to my artwork (although I’m not sure this is exactly what was intended…)
Drawn with the Pentel Color Brush (supplemented with some old fashioned regular ink) on Canson Marker paper.