Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM

[Alopex]

I struggled for a little while trying to figure out what to post.  Like I said in my intro thread, I'm not a professional artist and never have been.  I have a job not even remotely related to art that takes up 48 hours of my week including commute to and from work.  Art was mostly something I just did in my spare time on and off, not because of lack of interest but because I was discouraged from treating it as anything other than a hobby.  Now I want it to be a regular part of my life and I want to improve my skill.

I mostly did pencil at first.





I always like to experiment and discovered I liked scratchboard as well:






In preparation for Inktober, I started playing around more with ink:





I continued to experiment during Inktober 2016:
























I also enjoy alcohol-based markers, particularly Copic Sketch and Windsor & Newton Brushmarkers:









Just as a note, the marker strokes tend to show up a lot more when scanned.  They're not very visible to the naked eye in this one below.  In addition to other things, I probably need to work on scanning/photographing/editing.  :P







I've been trying watercolor, but I that's currently my weakest link:





Last but not least, this is a recent colored pencil bit I had a lot of fun with:



Hope that's not too much to start with.  I figured more examples might give people a better idea of strengths, weaknesses, suggestions for improvement, what kind of mediums I like to work in, etc.