Well, it needed a while to finish my May Challenge submission but the concept behind it demanded to wait until end of May to collect the headlines. Unfortunately the metallic effect is not replicable but RGB can’t do everything.
latest updates: copic markers
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2011Jun 92
tags: copic markers | digital | May 2011 | Outer Space | pencil | Pentel Brush | Pentel Metallic Brushes | Theme Challenge | Tombow Brushpen -
2011Apr 26
tags: copic markers | pencil
This is a sketch made from a magazine cover in a the library of the wellness spa I attended recently. Do you recognize him?
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2010Nov 1
tags: copic markers
African Elephant. Often people are concerned about the destructive nature of elephants. Without this gentle giant the plains would be smothered by bush encroachment and the grass would die out.
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2010Sep 19
tags: copic markers | fineliner
Trying for a dark moody image with heavy contrast. New concept to me working the dark to light
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2010Sep 16
tags: copic markers | unipin fineliner
The White Rhino breaks from dense bush and starts towards the Sontuli Loop for a morning drink. Colour has nothing to do with it. The name “White” is a mis-pronunciation of “Wide”, given to differentiate it from its close cousin the “Black” Rhino. It is easy to spot the difference. The wide mouth an adaptation to eating short grass, while the Black Rhino with its short head, upright stance and narrow mouth confirms it as a leaf browser.
Even in mid winter the temperature in Hluhluwe is above 30 degrees Celsius and the grass is dry and brown and offers little nutrition. Water too is scarce now before the spring rains, but he will endure, evolution has given him all he needs to survive, a tough skin, sensitive hearing and keen sense of smell. For protection, a horn.
Tragic that natures gift is the undoing of the animal.They killed two rhino not far from here this month. Border posts, fences and rangers don’t stop them anymore, they fly in with painted out helicopters, shoot them from the sky and chainsaw the horn off the bleeding animal and are gone in minutes, leaving it to die slowly. By the time the rangers react all they can do is put it out of its misery. It is big business you see, at $50,000 US a pound, they can afford the high tech.
The joke is there is nothing magical in the horn, it is made of Keratin, the same stuff in your fingernails and hair. Yet still even in this age the myths persist and backyard alchemists ply their trade, and the ignorant seek hope in a little bottle of grey dust.We will not save the Rhino with game reserves and conservation, the only way we can ensure this endangered animal stays is for every one of us to wake up one morning and say –“I will not buy anything with rhino horn in it”
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2010Aug 28
tags: copic markers | unipen fineliner
Congratulations nephew on your graduation.
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2010Jul 15
tags: copic markers
Markers and pigment liner.
(Left: one of my favourite films
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2008Apr 21
tags: copic markers | ink
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis StevensonTHE LITTLE LAND
Little thoughtful creatures sit,
On the grassy coasts of it.
