Okay, this Blog will follow the previous two others as everything written in them happened in the span of one day. The point of talking about and showing my successes and failures of that particular day is to show that despite how the day started with a less than ideal piece of artwork, I didn't give up but continued to push my limits of patience,concentration and skill. The Black Cat drawing gave me just enough of a boost that I decided to do a quickie Baroness pinup. Keep it simple and don't put too many lines on the page and see what happens.

For drawing women,less is the ideal way to go. Granted this version of The Baroness is slightly different than the one most people are accustomed to seeing but I still think doing this drawing was well worth the effort. If I try a type of artwork that I've never attempted before the most important thing is to learn from the experience. It doesn't hurt either if the artwork exceeds your expectation either.

The Baroness piece took about an hour and fifteen minutes, a new personal best for me. The tools I used were Sakura 01,03,05 and 1 Calligraphy pens, they are acid free, dry very fast and are very easy to work with. They are also very cheap to buy,last a long time and are disposable. I also used a B5 Speedball nib to fill in any large black areas. Speedball Super Black India Ink is my favorite Ink out there right now. I mix this type of ink with a cheap chinese no name brand of India Ink and this has worked great for me over the past few years. I know some artists might think this is sacrilege mixing two different inks together but I just follow my instincts when it comes to drawing. So far they have never been wrong.

This was a great day of creating for me, despite being heavily drugged with painkillers and anti-immflamatory pills. I also tried very hard to allow myself a certain amount of creative freedom and not forcing any one subject over the other but just going with whatever I felt like drawing at the time.

Rich.