silos

Exploring color ideas on translucent yupo. This translucent yupo stuff is pretty interesting as you can lay it over an existing drawing and do an overlay without using a lightbox. And it will also take watercolor without warping. It is tricky to use though! Ink does not dry quickly on yupo as it does not absorb. And going over an area with a wet brush that already has dried paint on it can lift that paint right off, depending on how you hit it with a brush.

the great stairway pt. 3

I'm trying out doing a watercolor wash over the drawing on translucent yupo. This is my first thumbnail color sketch.

the great stairway pt. 2

Here is the finished drawing. I blew up my thumbnail, transferred to marker paper. And did this with prismacolor greyscale markers and a .25 pilot hi-tec c pen. Also a little bit of pencil to help lay out a few of the tighter details. Pilot hi-tec c pens are my new favorites. I stumbled upon some in Indonesia this year. They are made in Japan, and hard to find here in the US. There are a few websites that carry them, and a few stores here and there it seems. Mainly in Japanese stores.

The image above is about screen size when clicked on. The lower image is 2x the size when clicked on to show more details. I drew this at about 24 inches wide.

the great stairway

Paper, marker, pen, and tape. And vanishing points. This is the rough thumbnail drawing of the current piece I'm working on.

gold dreams

This is the town I grew up in, a hundred years or more into the future. Kids still skate in the future. Some cops still get upset about it. Some kids get upset back at them. Yes, there's some Akira inspiration in this one.