Sketch Diary: Big eyes and ears character - inked

I love exaggerated features sometimes.

Watch me ink her on youtube-
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with love - M

Sketch Diary: Cutie patootie girl - ink

I don't always draw cute little anime-esque girls/women... but when I do, they're disproportionate and adorable. Enjoy.

Watch me ink this cutie here:
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With love - M

Sketch Diary: The wine mermaid ink

I forget if there was a real reason as to why she's sitting in a goblet/glass thing. I think I just liked the idea of a mermaid in a bath or something but then I wanted it to be see through and as I sketched it out, it started to look like a wine glass... so here we are. My made up lore is as follows: don't leave your wine glass sitting out or else the wine mermaid will take a bath in your glass! Presumably, the lore is to encourage people to not waste wine. Or maybe to keep children from getting a hold of wine and making a mess? I don't know man, I just work here.

Watch me draw this mermaid here:
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with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked sorceress in blue

This was one of the first drawings I did with my new fancy shmancy lightbox. Why did I wait so long to get one?!?! They're awesome. The blue ink was a random impluse I indulged because I felt like playing with my pen nibs. I was struggling to get the thinner long lines to be smooth. But I didn't really care about this drawing. I thought the original sketch was meh. But I actually like how this ink version turned out with the etching and such.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked Kaiju inspired by Pacific Rim

Isn't he cuh-uuute! This just started as a weird doodle and ended up being a ton of fun to draw and eventually ink.

Watch me ink this bad boy -

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with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked armored dude

A quick ink practice. Trying to work on those pen skills.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: TBT - Elf girl with wings inked

Throwback to 2011! That was 7 years ago... I'll let that sink in for a minute.

I'm happy to say, I still enjoy this drawing. This was when my drawings started to feel less flat. They started to feel more fleshy, like they take up space.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inktober Day 8 - The staff

Sketched at Zenkaikon 2016, inked this week for Inktober. I'm slowly catching back up!

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inktober Day 7 - Goose neck guy

Sketched this while hanging out at Zenkaikon 2016. Inked this week for Inktober.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inktober Day 6 - Woman looking up

A sketch from 2016 that I decided to ink for Inktober. I like how the hair turned out.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inktober Day 4 - Dude sitting with a dog

Fell off the wagon a little with keeping up posts for Inktober so these next several will be rapid fire. As always, if anyone would like to color in any of my inked drawings, please link to the original here on my site and let me know! I wanna see! Don't be shy :)

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked - Sherlock movie clips

I've been cleaning up my old sketches and sketch books, scanning everything in, tossing old stuff that means nothing to me, and, in the case of this sketch, rediscovering those old sketches that I still love. So I inked it in! Always need more inking practice. Drawing in pencil doesn't really have to require a steady hand, smooth stroke. But ink is more unforgiving. Going back over a line to smooth it out can be disastrous, ending up with a line way thicker than what was originally desired. Stuff like that.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked - Portrait of a girl in my mind

Little bit of a hiatus there - vacation and then heavy workload (doing my team manager's job while she was out unexpectedly). Anyway, back on the tracks here.

Feel free to download this pic to color it in... under one condition: I wanna see it! For realz. Also, please give me credit for the original drawing if you decide to post your colored version somewhere. Thanks a bunch!

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked crow practice, perched

If I remember correctly, I drew this little dude in Japan while looking at crows IRL (in real life). I was so impressed with myself at the time because I don't draw from life like maybe I should. Still love him though. Finally got around to inking him to practice my inking skills more. He's actually on nice paper so I might color him too. Might go crazy and make him a psychedelic crow or some such haha.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked Snake Wedding

Took some time to ink this older sketch so I can keep up with practicing my coloring with my Copics. I'm excited to practice coloring the translucent fabric hanging off her headpiece. Should be a good challenge.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked harpy priestess

Inking it up over here. Inkin' inkin' inkin'. I actually just started coloring this since taking this photo so I'm really excited to share the WIP.

Feel free to color this if you like it! Send me a link so I can see! Please credit me (don't pretend it's your drawing, dude).

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked portrait during the Josei panel

So I was cleaning out some art supplies and rediscovered an old brush pen that I had never used and this was the result of playing with it for the first time. To see the original sketch, scroll down or go here. The sketchbook that this is in actually has decent paper so I might color this in at some point. My hand was super shakey though. Kind of wish I could do a redo on it but hey, gotta love the imperfections.

with love - M