From imagination: Women faces

I've always liked the two drawings below. Something about the attitude. These young women, despite their very feminine retro look, will not take any crap from anyone.

From imagination: Woman face

Another image from the brush pen series.
Although the precise strokes may look effortless, it took a lot of thinking to get the lines just where I wanted them, since these drawings were done straight with no pencil drafts.

From Imagination: Woman Face

My favorite from the imagination pieces. There is something capricious about her expression that I really like.

From Imagination: Woman Face

This one reminds me of a 1920s' flapper.

I still have that Japanese brush pen hidden away somewhere safe and logical (that is, so safe and logical, even I can't find it). After working great for a long time, it suddenly started making dry strokes, so I put it away. And from my recent experience with the computer and the scanner, I can vouch that avoiding the activity that caused a problem, won't fix the problem.

From imagination: Woman Face

It's funny how the simplest tasks become an ordeal. For example, the minute something goes awry with the computer, I know it's going to take a bunch of time to troubleshoot and resolve. What I need is 1) time and 2) a computer and scanner that won't give me grief.

Anyway, here is another one of those imagination pieces done with a brush pen.

The way I see her: Moso

Another piece from the imagination series; this is a brush pen drawing I did while thinking of "Moso," my (funny) daughter.

From imagination: woman face

This brush ink pen illustration is part of a series of imagination-based work. I would post the other ones, by it looks like my scanner gave up the ghost today...

Today's sketch: "The Lady with the Camelias"

With a nod to Alexandre Dumas, here is "La Dame aux Camélias."

It is rather unusual for me to draw from imagination, but the opportunity presented itself today. I used a (leaky) Pilot Vball 0.5 pen.

A sketch I did last Thursday

Drawing from imagination is very different from when I look at something. Lines are generally more defined, features are a bit out of proportion, shadows are less defined. A different style altogether.