Doodles 10

Baby snakes. Based on a photo from the Art Journal section at WetCanvas Weekly Inspiration Pictures thread.

Doodles 09

My little Moleskine sketchbook has not been used in three years, so it is time to add a sketch. Ha! I'm not sure where to land the pen point, but my aim was not too bad.

One of my piggy banks, and I will empty them all one day to find less than $100.

Doodles 06, 07, & 08

From three pages of my doodlin' book. These were sketched from items in a Christmas flyer. There was one more reindeer to sketch, but the flyer disappeared, and now I wondering if I finished the last one ... in the upper left of this grouping.

Doodles 05

These were done over several days, and I'm surprised the flowers lasted so long. The property where I live has numerous large bushes filled with the tiny roses.

Derwent Inktense pencils were used for the color. Wouldn't you know I'd pick something with soft colors for pencils that can provide very rich, intense colors.

Doodles 04

With the idea of practicing bird shapes, I was bored after the second one. At least it's easier for me to do half-way decent line drawings of birds than it was a year ago.

Two different inks were used in the same model of fountain pens and points. The interior was done using Noodler's Black, and it was fine, though I always let it dry several hours between sessions and before adding the colored pencil. I'm sure it's dry sooner, but my attention span takes me elsewhere. The frame was done using Platinum Carbon Black, and the line is thicker, plus it feathered and blobbed where I hesitated or stopped.

My preferences:
Moleskine Sketchbook: Noodler's Bulletproof Black
Moleskine Watercolor Book: Platinum Carbon Black

Doodles 03

A sketch of my toesies.

Doodles 01 and 02

I haven't been able to focus lately, so I decided to see if I could make up simple body images and have them look reasonable in proportion and placement. By the second page, I gave up on reasonable.