Rushing head long into this series of rogues and scoundrels I thought a pirate monkey would be fun. Here ya go. Pen and Ink on Toned Tan paper. I drew him with a carmine col-erase pencil, and a Pentel brush pen.
Y’all have fun,
Richard
#inktober continues
Sadly, I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to keep up. my work load is becoming substantially heavier. So this could go either way. I could be so snowed under I don’t have time to draw, or so snowed under I draw to deal with the extra stress. Let’s see what happens.
Y’all have fun now,
Richard
I’ve got a lot of things going on with this one. I have another doodle in my sketchbook where I’m playing around with water color pencils again, but things are getting pretty hairy this semester and I decided to draw back and punt with simple pen and ink drawings. I say simple and then I post this doodle dump. Each one of these monkeys is drawn with a different pen. They were all sketched with a Carmine col-erase pencil. The monkey hanging on the mast with the bottles of root beer was inked with an 03 Pigma Micron pen. The Monkey with the hatchet jumping through the air on the right was done with my Pentel Pocket brush pen. I love that pen, but the paper in my new sketch pad is too rough for the little guy. That’s okay. I’ve got other tools which will work in this sketchbook. The monkey on the left, practicing his stabbing was inked with a new acquisition – Pilot Double Sided Brush Pen – Hard Tip – Black and Grey. I played around with making this monkey stand out a little more so I left the carmine col-erase pencil in his vest. I also used the grey end of the pen to put the rat lines in the background. The monkey at the bottom doing an Anime slide to the right was inked with a plain jane Pilot Precise V5. I like the Pilot Precise pens for quick fast lines when sketching. They aren’t great for a lot of variation of line quality like the brush pen, but they’re great for quick sketching.
I hope this supply list helps. Have fun doodling!
In His Peace,
Richard
Sweet Blessed Academic Stress Relief.
I have so much to do and I am so ready for the semester to be over. I needed to blow off some steam so a return to something easy seemed appropriate. These two tricksters were drawn with a Carmine Col-erase pencil, and inked with a Pigma Micron 02 pen. Then I used a kneaded eraser to removed the Col-erase lines.
I’ve been wondering if it would have been more fun for the flying monkey’s in L. Frank Baum’s the Wonderful Wizard of Oz to have been pirate monkeys floating from place to place on a galleon/dirigible scavaging and pillaging both the high seas and all the land. That could be fun – right
I started left to right with the inking to keep from creating smudges, but it wasn’t until I made it to the leader of the pirate monkeys that I decided to go all Dr. Seuss with the way the pirate captain is inked. Then I realized I should have tried that with the others as well. Oh well. You live and you learn.
Carmine col-erase pencil and brush pen.
I decided to revisit the pirate monkey. Originally I did this on one page and thought to make it two separate posts. Then I thought the better of it. That’s why there are two signatures for this one. I promise. I am really not that vain. I like the pose better than what I’d done before, but the face is too human. I need to play around with the character design more and use a reference photo of the kind of monkey I’m trying to use. But hey. This is all for fun so I’m not going to stress the details too much. Enjoy!
Another character study. This time with a specific purpose. The mouse captain needs an adversary and what better adversary than an undead monkey. I’ve probably watched the Pirates of the Caribbean movies too many times. Just to be clear the monkey’s name is not Jack.
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