From imagination: Woman face (ca. ???)

Another image from the brush pen series.
Although the precise strokes may look effortless, it took a lot of thinking to get the lines just where I wanted them, since these drawings were done straight with no pencil drafts.

From Imagination: Woman Face (ca. ???)

My favorite from the imagination pieces. There is something capricious about her expression that I really like.

From imagination: Woman Face (ca. ???)

It's funny how the simplest tasks become an ordeal. For example, the minute something goes awry with the computer, I know it's going to take a bunch of time to troubleshoot and resolve. What I need is 1) time and 2) a computer and scanner that won't give me grief.

Anyway, here is another one of those imagination pieces done with a brush pen.

The way I see her: Moso (ca. ???)

Another piece from the imagination series; this is a brush pen drawing I did while thinking of "Moso," my (funny) daughter.

From imagination: Woman Face (ca. ???)

This brush ink pen illustration is part of a series of imagination-based work. I would post the other ones, by it looks like my scanner gave up the ghost today...

Today's Sketch: The Lady with the Camelias (09-07-08)

With a nod to Alexandre Dumas, here is "La Dame aux Camélias."

It is rather unusual for me to draw from imagination, but the opportunity presented itself today. I used a (leaky) Pilot Vball 0.5 pen.

A sketch I did last Thursday (09-04-08)

Drawing from imagination is very different from when I look at something. Lines are generally more defined, features are a bit out of proportion, shadows are less defined. A different style altogether.