Posts Tagged ‘pencil’
Sunday Round-Up & Crystal sketch
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
art-type things wot I posted this past week
Monday we visited tiny Tolkein fandom with Storm, while Tuesday the tentacles got all steampunk with the golden Tentacle Idol. Wordless Wednesday revisited crows, and on Thursday I finally finished my alphabet with Z is for Zoomorphic. Then, Friday we saw the third Filigree Moon painting, and Saturday I expressed my feelings about pollen in cartoon form.
For Sunday’s sketch, I have another little doodle from someone’s Cthulhu Coloring Book, a mysterious crystal with eyes staring out from its facets. Sorry about the SAN loss.
Crystal sketch by Amy Crook
Tomorrow begins Bookmark Week! My newsletter list got a little preview so a couple of them are already sold, but there’s still a bunch left for you to covet.
Categories: Daily Art, Sunday Round-Up
Tags: coloring book, doodle, nfs, pen and ink, pencil, sketch
Skeleton Bookmark
Friday, November 30th, 2012
Skeleton Bookmark
by Amy Crook
Thank goodness it’s Friday! Normally this sketchy little dude would go on Sunday, but this time I had two bookmarks sell before writing the posts, so I thought I’d save those for the weekend. That’s right, this is the last of the bookmarks for the week you can actually buy! Or you can click here to see all the available bookmarks in one easy spot.
Skeleton Bookmark, 1″x4.5″ pencil on paper.
Skeleton Bookmark, detail, by Amy Crook
Above you can see his grinning face up close and personal. Below, he’s hanging out on a book to show you just how slender a skeleton can be, when he’s a bookmark, anyway.
Skeleton Bookmark, with book, by Amy Crook
(book not included. foot bones also not included.)
Categories: Daily Art, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: bookmark, buy a bookmark, for sale, pencil, skeleton
Pooh and Piglet Hugging sketch
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Pooh and Piglet hugging, sketch by Amy Crook
Winnie the Pooh was published on this date in 1926. Let’s hope they’re still around in another eighty-mumble* years!
*Pooh can’t count that high, sorry.
Categories: Daily Art, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: nfs, pencil, sketch, winnie the pooh
Flying Eyeball sketch
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Flying Eyeball sketch by Amy Crook
Another batch of Cthulhu Coloring Books have mysteriously acquired sketches in their front covers, and here’s the first of several. I particularly like the way the goo is sliding down off the surface of the eyeball, as though it’s just risen up out of a vat of its brethren, ready to do its master’s bidding.
…maybe that’s just me.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art
Tags: coloring book, nfs, pen and ink, pencil, sketch
E is for Emboss
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
E is for Emboss, calligraphic illumination by Amy Crook
I did so much measuring and line-drawing for my E I decided to leave in the pencil lines as a sort of underpainting, a decorative structure underlying the letter. Though it’s hard to see in the scan, the whole square is embossed, with gold coloring the embossed edges as well as providing the decoration on an otherwise plain capital. The two greens remind me of marble or malachite, but the gold filigree design really elevates the whole thing to the realm of beauty.
E is for Emboss, 5″x5″ pencil, pen & ink, Japanese watercolor and glitter gel pen on paper.
E is for Emboss, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the raised edges and shining gold both on the edge itself and in the filigree decoration. Below, I’ve put the piece in a frame with B is for Blackletter. It spells BE! Yes, I’m a dork. You knew that.
B is for Blackletter & E is for Emboss, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Illuminated Alphabet, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: alphabet, calligraphy, for sale, glitter gel pen, gold, green, illumination, pen and ink, pencil, watercolor
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Dr. Molly Hooper sketch
Sunday, August 5th, 2012
Dr. Molly Hooper character sketch
by Amy Crook
The put-upon coroner from BBC’s Sherlock, Molly is going to join Mrs. Hudson in death in my next set of Baker Street Tinies. I did this little sketch of her character design to prepare, trying to capture her nervous smile, lab coat, and general adorableness.
Enjoy your Sunday, and hope you don’t meet Molly anytime soon.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: molly hooper, nfs, pencil, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sketch
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Mrs. Hudson Sketch
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
Mrs. Hudson sketch by Amy Crook
I figured it was time to design some of the girls from Sherlock as stick people, so I’ve started with the redoubtable Mrs. Hudson. I’ll be doing Molly Hooper next, and then perhaps they’ll make their way to the Baker Street Tinies, if I can figure out a good way to work them in.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: mrs hudson, nfs, pencil, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sketch
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