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I had a cold earlier this week, I feel much better now except my voice started going Friday night and now my highest speaking level is low whisper. I feel like I'm perpetually telling secrets.

Brian has been wanting a tattoo for a while and finally settled on a subject. He wants a SpongeBob SquarePants that is made to look like an exaggerated Brian after work at Long John Silver's, commemorating his time spent busting his butt in the food industry.

My instructions are to make it look as gross and grizzly as possible...

OK so with that in mind, here is the first preliminary sketch for Brian's tattoo...


This is being heavily influenced by the awesome find of Robert Ryan Cory's flickr page filled with SpongeBob production art... NEAT!

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Pretty Face From Lou

Sketch of the day, sometimes I just like to sketch pictures of lovely people.


This picture brought to you by Luciano Noble II - Lou O' Bedlam's Photostream is a nice place to see lots of pretty faces that are great to just practice sketch with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/louobedlam/

Original Photo Here

After getting frustrated with my micron pens one too many times, I decided to go out and find the new pen for me. I was looking for something to give more delicate detail control, but with a nice variation in line. I also need something waterproof, because I love to use watercolors over pen.

I quickly stumbled across a variety of lovely professional brush pens, these seem to be the lead runners in the world of inking:

Kuretake Brush Pen
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.

From some extra research however I found that the Pentel has trouble with drying out, especially with long strokes. I'm still keen on trying the Kuretake, but the price is a bit prohibitive at the moment. A bit more in the price range is below:

Uni-ball Pocket Brush Pen - Fine
Zebra Disposable Brush Sign Pen

But before I sprang the "big bucks" ($12) for these beauts, I decided to check out the local art supply store. To my fabulous surprise, I found this little number:


The Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, in black 199 brush tip (B). It's waterproof, light-fast, india ink with a soft (solid) tip. It creates very delicate lines, and bold calligraphy swooshes, and even hold up on flow for those extra long lines. I'm going to try this bad boy out a few times, see if it's pleasant features hold out over long, hard use, but for now I'm quite delighted!!

Starting off the new year with a new Flickr Photostream and a new self portrait here to kick start us... click for bigger.





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This blog needs some more of my art updates... So here is a quickly colored sketch for today. My Take on a Fox Fur Stole switch up. Doodled this on the back of an index card and thought it'd be fun to color real quick.

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Today I am being inspired by old fashion art found on Sebra Prints:








Also, I love that that is a dress considered suitable for going for a walk:


Neato Image from Sebra Prints --> CLICK HERE

Sheolin, more aliens for Star Lost

Inked Belles, click for big:



Visit Belle of the Ball creator Daniel Solis' website: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/