Posts Tagged ‘pen and ink’
Santa Hats Are Cool
Saturday, October 13th, 2012
Santa Hats Are Cool, Doctor Who parody art by Amy Crook
The eleventh Doctor is very proud of his new headgear. Let’s hope this one survives more than five minutes before getting destroyed.
Santa Hats Are Cool, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic markers on paper, nfs (sold).
You can still get him on a holiday card at my Etsy shop.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: christmas, copic marker, doctor who, nfs, pen and ink, sold, tardis
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Skellington Jack Face
Sunday, October 7th, 2012
Skellington Jack face sketch by Amy Crook
Jack Skellington is dubious about your proposal.
Have a great Sunday!
Categories: Daily Art, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: coloring book, doodle, jack skellington, nfs, nightmare before christmas, pen and ink, sketch
Tea or Death
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
Tea or Death, a Sherlock comic by Amy Crook
John is most displeased to have woken up to find all the tea in the house sacrificed to one of Sherlock’s mad experiments. Let’s hope for everyone’s sake that Sherlock errs on the side of caution and comes home with a nice big box!
Tea or Death, 9″x7″ pen & ink and watercolor on watercolor paper, nfs (sold)
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: comic, john watson, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sold, watercolor
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A Murder of Crows 2
Friday, October 5th, 2012
A Murder of Crows 2 by Amy Crook
This piece is visually and thematically related to A Murder of Crows, but this time instead of swirling around calligraphy these pen-and-ink crows are coming to rest on some power lines. They were inspired by the convocation of crows that’s often outside my window, including the loud fellow who woke me up this morning by scolding my cat, who just chittered excitedly right back.
I had a tiny frame I got from who knows where that I wanted to make something just to fit, and this murder of seven crows seemed like the perfect flock for the small space.
A Murder of Crows 2, 3.5″x5″ pen & ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.
A Murder of Crows 2, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, there’s a little detail of one of the crows, who was scribbled in with a fountain pen and then smoothed out with a paintbrush and water to give him a soft, almost glowing quality. Below, you can see the piece in the frame that inspired it, nearly as small as my iPhone.
A Murder of Crows 2, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: crow, for sale, murder of crows, pen and ink, watercolor
K is for Greek Key
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
K is for Greek Key, calligraphic illumination by Amy Crook
It’s a bit cheating to use the Greek Key pattern for K, but it was the option that appealed to me the most. It’s hard to do kerning with only one letter, after all!
I ended up designing my own Greek Key in Illustrator, printing it, and using my lightbox to copy it in blue glitter gel pen onto the K. All the tools of the modern age are getting put to use as I explore the historic art of calligraphic illumination.
K is for Greek Key, 5″x5″ pen & ink, Japanese watercolor, and glitter gel pen on paper.
K is for Greek Key, detail, by Amy Crook
Between the color and the glitter, I had a really hard time photographing this piece. The Key pattern blends into the soft blue background to the camera, but of course your eye immediately catches the light. Below, you can see it in a frame, spelling out the word I said when I realized I didn’t have a framed photo for it.
K is for Greek Key, framed art by Amy Crook
(with A is for Arabesque and C is for Counter)
Categories: Daily Art, Illuminated Alphabet, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: alphabet, blue, calligraphy, for sale, glitter gel pen, green, illumination, pen and ink, watercolor
Plushie of Tindalos
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012
Plushie of Tindalos sketch by Amy Crook
Happy Fall Equinox! To celebrate, here is a sketch of sleeping Cthulhu‘s adorable Hound of Tindalos plushie. I expect I’ll be revisiting him in proper color one of these days, he’s just too cute to resist. if I was just a little more of the sewing sort, I’d even be tempted to make one…
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art
Tags: coloring book, cthulhu, doodle, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
Sherlock Discovers Bubble Tea, colored
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
Sherlock Discovers Bubble Tea comic by Amy Crook
now with bonus color!
After an inking mishap with this comic required some Photoshop love to make it workable, I put it away in a drawer sad for its fate. Then I decided to try to color it anyway, and through the magic of pinstripes you can’t tell where I mis-inked it at all, yay! I decided to do Sherlock’s clothes in cool blue and give Mycroft a nice warm yellow shirt and golden tie, which goes well with the warm brown tapioca ball stuck to his forehead.
Sherlock Discovers Bubble Tea, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic markers on paper, nfs (sold).
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: cartoon, comic, copic marker, mycroft holmes, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sold
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