Posts Tagged ‘word art’

Motitation

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

Motitation, word art by Amy Crook

Motitation: a quivering movement,
7″x5″ brush & ink on paper – $25

A busy week means an easy word! This one was fun to do, ink in a waterbrush and deliberate squiggles to give the feeling of quivering. You can even see the soft texture of the paper in the scan, and the soft lines where the brush shivered along with every tiny bump and dip.

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Selcouth

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

Selcouth, word art & Star Wars fan art by Amy Crook

Selcouth: unfamiliar, unusual; strange, marvelous, wonderful,
7″x5″ pen & ink on paper – $70

This was the word art for May the Fourth, aka Star Wars day! Selcouth seemed to perfectly fit the fantastical world that was at once strange, marvelous, and wonderful, and of course BB-8 wanted to guest star as the perfect avatar of all of the above.

Come join me tomorrow on Periscope (starts around 2-3pm Pacific) and see what new word gets brought to life!

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Fettered

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016

Fettered, word art by Amy Crook

Fettered: chained; shackled; confined; restrained,
5″x7″ pen & ink on paper – $45

One of my Patreon patrons requested this word for their sketch last month, so we’re taking a quick break from May’s gallery to show the last of April’s word art.

This illustration involves some naughty kitties — or one rather distressed one, and one very smug one, rather. Anyone who knows my cats knows who is meant to be who here, despite their lack of markings.*

*Pod deserves it, the fuzzy little jerkface.

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Discombobulate

Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

Discombobulate, word art by Amy Crook

Discombobulate: to confuse or disconcert,
5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper – $70

I couldn’t resist the idea of Bond totally confusing his Quartermaster with intact, fully functioning equipment. Gun not fed to a komodo dragon. Earpiece not dropped into a glass of champagne. Unexploded pen!

So confusing.

Categories: People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
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Tenebrific

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

Tenebrific, word art by Amy Crook

Tenebrific: causing gloom or darkness,
5″x7″ pen & ink and watercolor on paper

One of my lovely Patreon patrons asked for this word as her art prompt this month, and so I used it for last Wednesday’s word art.

In anime, when misfortune has come to a character they draw blue lines from their hairline down their face to show it, and this lovely lovely violet-black Japanese watercolor echoes that by drawing down the gloom in long lines. The figure below is in the blue-black from the same palette, ghostly and gloomy, carrying its own darkness within.

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Torporific

Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

Torporific, word art by Amy Crook

Torporific: tending to cause numbness or inactivity
5″x7″ pen & ink on paper – $45

It’s definitely a house rule among cat owners that you can’t be expected to do any sort of responsible adulting if you’ve got a cat in your lap. They have their very own special gravity that causes inactivity among their chosen humans/bedwarmers.

I drew this live on Persicope; come join me some Wednesday around 2-3pm Pacific. Next week I’ll be doing a Patreon patron’s requested word!

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Unguiculate

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

Unguiculate, word art by Amy Crook

Unguiculate: a mammal with claws
7″x5″ pen & ink and pencil on paper – $25

The actual taxonomy is anything that has claws or nails as opposed to hooves, but I couldn’t resist the shorter definition or the visual that went with it. Look out! Rawr!

I drew this live on Persicope; come join me some Wednesday around 2-3pm Pacific. Who knows what weird word I’ll choose next.

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