Beetsandink - Beets And Ink

an early pastel test for skin, not very great.  The imagery is a mashup of a Toulouse Lautrec painting of his mother, and the Mark Rothko multi-form paintings, both of which I still admire quite a bit.

I think it's a dik-dik, or some other small antelope-like creature that looks like one.  I had access to a number of old animal mounts from Bass Pro a while back via one of my teachers, they were unlabeled and I didn't take notes so I have no idea on a couple of the more obscure ones I drew. here I was playing with inks and markers.  white inks are hard to come by that aren't horrible.  I had some Speedball white ink a while back that was as opaque as correction fluid, but the container was damaged and it dried up.  Here I think I used Dr. Ph. Martin's.  I never had luck with the Higgins white, but my sample was really old.  but anyways, Higgins Brown in is an absolute blast.  there's a warm and a cool pigment inside and they tend to settle out and/or soak into paper at different rates, and you can achieve different hue and lightness when you manipulate it by pulling some of it up with a paper towel or when you wet it.

Brewing up publicity for Sustainable Happyness.

Meat the Bone Beater, the bestest barbarian ever.  His main gimmick was his, er, fertility, hence lots of drop-in plots about his many children.  He had many hilarious perfect 20's during rages so there's some good stuff in his back catalog to bring out illustrations for.  Dayjob modeled after one of Joe Mangianello's characters. The character's title was inspired heavily by a Mystery Science Theater 3000 clip on Youtube, The Many Names of David Ryder.