Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM
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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.

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

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

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I continued to experiment during Inktober 2016:

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

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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


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

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

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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.
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Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by Alopex - 01-11-2017, 11:21 PM
RE: Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by Alopex - 01-13-2017, 11:29 PM
RE: Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by Alopex - 01-14-2017, 09:05 PM
RE: Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by Alopex - 01-14-2017, 09:06 PM
RE: Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by Alopex - 01-16-2017, 01:34 AM
RE: Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by AlexShi - 01-19-2017, 01:07 AM
RE: Alopex's n00b Sketchbook of DOOM - by Alopex - 01-28-2017, 09:21 PM

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