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A few more pen drawings, some old and some new, inspired by Edward Gorey. These are all drawn with various sizes of Sakura Micron pens.

Another Illustration Friday image, these characters originated from my sketchbook.

The original sketchbook character designs were drawn in pen and I am still trying to figure out the best way to create digital line work that I like and that has that pen quality — perhaps it isn’t possible. Anyway, I gave Freehand a go this time and started the image off with Freehand’s variable stroke pen. From there I took the line work into Illustrator and added areas of color with the pen tool and then finally copied the image over to Photoshop where I tweaked the colours and added the swath of yellow. The colours are bolder than I would typically use, but I wanted to try a different palette.

Have a good weekend.

Drawn with Sakura Microns and coloured with pencils.

Harriette with her Homunculous ‘hat.’ Drawn with Sakura Micron pens.

Another Ghastly Child drawn with Sakura Microns and inspired by the Racinet book.

With Halloween coming up I was inspired to create some Ghastly Children. This is Grinning Gilbert complete with ice pick and bone saw…

This was drawn with Sakura Microns.

I am an Edward Gorey fan so these children are also inspired by Gorey’s character designs. For inspirational reference I also used Albert Racinet’s, ‘The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes,’ with the specific plate shown below. This is a really good book that depicts lots of great costumes.

I decided to participate in the ‘Illustration Friday‘ Blog event. This is my submission for the current topic, ‘Remote.’

This is an Illustrator image, derived from my sketchbook. Usually I color the Illustrator line work in Photoshop, but I decided to color this image in Illustrator because I’m trying to improve my Illustrator skills.

One of the geometric style characters from my sketch book.

This is Dubu and Wobby on a plane of grass.

Another Illustrator and Photoshop image.

This is an animool card I made for my love bunny of one year…it was our anniversary on Sunday, October 16th.