I am totally in love with line. Drawing is my comfort zone...painting, not so much. The sketch below represents me stylistically walking the plank to defining form in a more painterly way, using light and color. It's terrifying to turn off the line layer, but I'm determined to improve.

Sketching faces while watching "Bones" reruns...

Rrrrrandom sketchbook page...

I keep going back to the zoo to draw the Visayan Warty Pig. Such an interesting shape.

From figure drawing last Friday...

In my defense, it was mid-60s and cloudy.

For whatever reason, freehanding vintage type with a rapidograph relaxes me...

From my head:

From life:

From a figure drawing workshop, 5-min. poses:

40-min. lunchtime drawing at Travel Town...

One of the benefits of working 5 minutes from the zoo...quick lunchtime drawing excursions.

The cassowary seems like such an illogical hanger-on from bygone days. Today, it seemed particularly dejected. There's nothing more depressing than a lonely, deflated cassowary...

More play-practice and exploration!

Random shape...

Stream-of-thought drawing...

Zoots was out for blood after his back-alley steampunk reassignment surgery was interrupted.

Accidents happen to everyone.

Dame Judi Dench was fierce in Pride and Prejudice...there may be more drawings to come of her.