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Daily Creativity: Frog Princess

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Frog Princess - ink & quill
I did another ink and quill piece tonight, a frog princess. I just love the contrast and how well the image pops. I think it looks a million times better IRL (as do most of these) but it scans pretty well by comparison.

In case I haven’t mentioned it before, I adore frogs. I collect them (not live ones, just figurines and toys) before I had a love for dragons I had a love for frogs (and they are related a bit). I don’t know if my parents chose this for me, or if I just loved Kermit too much… all I know is that as long as I can remember I have been frog crazy.

Cute story, my father used to wake me up with the line from Andy’s Gang, “Plunk your magic twanger! Hiya kids, hiya, hiya” you know, when he wasn’t pouring water on me because I sleep like the dead.

Daily Creativity: Clover Swirl

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Clover Swirl - Happy St Patty's Day!
This was yesterday’s Daily Creativity, but as I was out until close to 6am this morning, I didn’t scan it until today. I had a blast yesterday BTW, and this was done in honor of St Patrick. You will notice it is not a four leaf clover, because that is just superstition and has nothing to do with St Patrick, the clover is what St Patrick used to explain the trinity to the celtic people. Each leave represents individually the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet, they are all part of one being, one clover, hence the same thing.

Daily Creativity: Dread Pirate Rory!

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Dread Pirate Rory
“then one day he said to me, ‘I am not the dread pirate Rory'”

Continuing with the theme of mashing Rory the Dragon up with famous figures we have Rory as the Dread Pirate Roberts… though this is a mask he has been donning since his infancy.

This was done with india ink/quill on cardstock. I’m happy to go back to my roots and to pick up the quill again. The precision of the quill amazes me, it’s been so long since I have dipped my quill my reserve was dried out. I of course have a huge bottle of india ink as a back up to refill.

I suggest you click on the image to expand to see all of the cross hatching I did, I think it came out really nice.  There is something about using the traditional tools that you will never get with the digital variations.  A lot of people do this style of drawing now with a stylus and a tablet, and it’s something that I strive to master myself, but it will never fully replace ink, paints, pencil and all of the other materials.