An Update and Work in Progress...

Here is the color version of the piece in my last post, and also a new piece I am currently working on, I am still in the inking stage. I'm starting to become more comfortable with the medium, and am finding that working in pen (and watercolors) is really working for me. The color version of the owl piece was done digitally and not in watercolors, because I discovered the paper I used for that piece was not the greatest choice for watercolor, however in this new piece I'll be painting in watercolors once the black and white is done. There is something about working in pen and using hatchwork for rendering that I really enjoy; there's almost a meditative quality to it because working in this way forces you to work relatively slowly. Mistakes are harder to fix...it will take time to get accustomed to this way of working for me, which is very different than the way I have been working for years. Nevertheless, I am happy with this new direction my personal work is taking.