Soft Pencil and inking with brush

A little sketch book stuff .

CrowQuill

Another sketch started in my Molskine Sketchbook with no idea in mind, drawn with a B9 graphite stick and filled up with ink and crow quill  this time.
Drawing in traditional media has a tangible joy to it that I can't get with digital media.
It's feels like sculpture . This little sketch is on a 8X11 sketchbook  although this is a cropped in scan of it.
Lar-

Drawing pen

Getting back to the REAL Sketchbook. My Moleskine book.
Thick, off white creamish colored paper. Takes ink okay but absorbs just a bit too much.
Again , a lot of my sketches have no ideas they are just  practice drawings.
This started with a very soft graphite doodle and followed up with Acryilc-india ink and a Hunt drawing nib. May 5th ,2012
Lar-

Painter 12 soft charcoal

Back again on Painter 12  testing out the charcoal brushes. This seems to work a little smoother than past tests.  It's a softer brush so it easier to model and sketch.  I'm still not ready to throw Painter out yet.
Still have to see what I can get out of it. Photoshop is still more powerful .
-Lar

Painter 12 again 20 minutes

Here I am agin taking Painter through it's paces. 

I actually like it better than before. Painter 12  have a lot of upgrades to the past versions . It seems to respond quicker but I'm not sure if it's because I also upgraded my main computer. 

The little sketch I did here is done in the oil pastel brush mode . The interface does seem"creamy" like oil pastels. I'm also starting to find that it works better when working at 100 percent view. Unlike Photoshop where I feel more comfortable working at a much smaller percentage because my file are usually 300dpi.

At 100 percent you see the texture and effects better .  

Well still playing around with it. 

-Lar

Moleskine sketchbook pencil

Just pencil  on moleskine sketchbook  trying to get motivated .

Almost midnight sketch

I've been setting up missing apps and such, updating software and reading tech stuff all day and so I don't get drawing anything till almost midnight. 

By then I'm all tuckered out. 

I like the attitude on this little sketch though! 

Lar-