Drawing #28 - Inking "Skully"

Hi everyone!

Yes, I named him Skully:

It's definitely much easier to see Skully's design with the ink rather than the blue non-photo color pencil, but the challenging part to outlining this with the copic multi-liner was inking over the all the small ridges on the surface of the canvas. I definitely had to trace this with a heavy hand. In short, I couldn't trace this as lazily as I would have liked to.

I can't quite envision myself drawing anything realistic on a canvas only because I don't think the Copic markers would blend too well. I also don't think the canvas does too well with absorbing the colors, but I'll have to see in the future.

I also can't seem to get over this blue erasable pencil!!! For the last two to three years I've spent drawing, I have always drawn with graphite pencils, that is, until I met an artist in Starbucks who told me about the blue non-photo color pencil. Apparently there is also an orange non-photo color pencil, but the lady at the art store knew nothing about it.

Regardless, I'm excited about being able to draw in color.

Here is Skully undergoing evolution:

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I love Skully! My friends wanted to color him after they saw him, but I wanted to color him too!

(My last week in Chicago!)

I miss Chicago! This is random, but I moved from Illinois to Wisconsin on June 30th and while I have been having fun in Wisconsin, sometimes I have been missing home. Earlier today I was thinking to myself about how I'm in a different state and it did make me feel a little anxious. Granted, I'm able to drive to Illinois, but it still feels weird to wake up somewhere new. After going for a run in the morning, I was walking back home thinking about all the things I had to do at home, but couldn't even envision what my living room looked like. It felt strange indeed.

Thanks for joining me!
@omega-not