I have a few “prepped” homemade sketchbooks with patterned backgrounds that I use for characters. Sort of like a staged background. Today I used the background to randomly “find” a character. This guy almost jumped off the page. But then he looks very terrier-ish so that would be normal for a terrier. Georgie is aContinue reading “Georgie is about to have a bad day”
Category Archives: Daily Sketch
Final Inchie Day
The final prompt is “DETAIL.” One of the things that Amy Maricle encourages during the challenge is to do multiple versions and then see if they can be part of a larger piece. I played with acrylic paint and created a bunch of blue blocks and then followed the brush strokes to find a pattern.Continue reading “Final Inchie Day”
Inchies – Swirling
The theme for Day 11 was “swirling.” Instead of drawing something that swirls, I opted for a completely different idea and grabbed some old art (see previous post: https://ginalento.com/2021/08/25/i-have-done-something-horrible/ ) and I cut it up into the 2×2 squares. I sprayed the squares with spray Ink and sealed them after they dried so they wouldn’tContinue reading “Inchies – Swirling”
Inchies – Indigo
Day 10 – indigo Here is my exploration into indigo. In my humble opinion, the best shade of indigo is from Daniel Smith.
Happy Labor Day
We are less than a month away from Inktober and that means the return of the Little Witch and her Dragon. They are taking a vacation at the shore and are enjoying their Labor Day on the beach. Dragons love the sun on their hides. The laughing gulls are wondering if there are any handoutsContinue reading “Happy Labor Day”
Inky Inchies
Day 9 and the post was “ink.” I got a little carried away again. Each square was done independently but I tied them together with laying them out on my desk and turning them to see how well they would work together as a group. The bottom two were separate pieces done with crayon andContinue reading “Inky Inchies”
More Inchies
Day 7 was “Broken” and Day 8 was “Boots“ For”Broken,” I thought of something more, ambiguous and just let impulse take over. For “Boots” and octopus with boots popped into my head so I went with it.
Inchie Challenge Continued…
Days 4-6 prompts: Day 4 – Yellow – I was totally spontaneous and I used two Tombow Markers and a waterbrush to create this one. Simple designs like this can grow into something else… Day 5 – Wood – They Draw had sent out an email about typography so wood became wooden letters. Day 6Continue reading “Inchie Challenge Continued…”
Inchie Challenge
During August, I participated in the Inchie Challenge. Inchies are small 2×2 Art. I like doing these because they can lead to ideas for other work. The ideas for Inchies was started by Amy Maricle and occasionally she’ll host an on-line challenge to encourage people to create these little pieces of art. One thing thatContinue reading “Inchie Challenge”
Morning routine
These sketches are part of my morning routine. I do these every morning for my daily warm up, which is similar to the drills that soccer players do everyday for ball control with their feet. My drills are for eye/hand aka “seeing” and the boxes are thinking creatively and drawing spontaeously. I use the SktchyContinue reading “Morning routine”
Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration 