Unforgiving is right! At the very last instant drawing this last night, I blobbed a big load of ink right onto its forehead. I had to scrape it off with a scalpel. I’m lucky it worked or I would have had to start over!

Glad you like it!

So this was done with a Rotring Isograph, a beautiful pen for architects. I love it because it has a refillable ink reservoir, making it cheap to run. To write with… actually pretty unpleasant since you need to use quite an unnatural angle for handwriting. Otherwise, a splendid pen which I gather isn’t being made any more – sad times.

Thanks!

It’s comments like this that keep me drawing. Thank you so much for it!

Haha, consider my hair thoroughly braided! Thanks friend.

I totally agree. The shading in this is a mess, a fix upon a fix upon a fix. Eventually I just had to make myself walk away and stop overworking it. Fortunately the lady depicted seems to have liked it!

Thanks!

Thank you!

I’m happy with how that came out too! Thanks!

Hi! So glad you like it!

My process isn’t anything special. I work from reference photos, either that I’ve taken myself or else that a friend has sent me. I have it on my computer monitor and draw it from there. Usually I’m set up on a little desk easel in front of the monitor. I get the rough outlines down in mechanical pencil, and then ink using a dip pen and a bottle of India ink. All lines freehand, no tracing or rulers. Very controlled and processized, not a lot left to chance or mad flurries of excitement. And I’ll usually have an audiobook on in the background.

I love this style of art! I didn’t know Tsukioka Yoshitoshi though, thanks for sharing!

YOU’RE lovely!

Thanks so much! I am twerking my appreciation in your direction now.

Thank you! It’s a weird hobby but I seem to spend all my free time just painstakingly drawing parallel lines…

Really amazing work! It’s so hard to get a face right live against the clock. It’s beautiful – bravo!

Thank you! She’s someone I especially wanted to get right so I’m happy this went well.

Thanks so much!

What a lovely thing to read. Thanks for making my day!

Thank you so much! On the lovely human front, can confirm: she is.

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