Anecdote

More inky art pieces! Just got myself some new art pens (4 Faber-Castell PITT sepia pens), so I decided to try ‘em out. I was reading through the cd sleeve of Zbigniew Preisner’s “10 Easy Pieces for Piano”, and this arty piece is kinda in some partial way inspired by his note for the track, “The Art of Flying”:

Back home again, returning to life. Same turmoil, phones faxes… just true life. Or the art of flying.

Anyway here’s what I came up with:

(Click to enlarge)

Click here to view a nice high quality version (PNG, 1.6Mb - 2336×1642).

The other piece I did was a portrait of Arvo Pärt, from the cover of the Naxos cd “Arvo Pärt: A Portrait”, the head is tilted a bit strangely methinks:

Click here to view a higher quality version (PNG, 1.03Mb - 1192×1562).

I’m also getting into traditional (hand drawn) animation now after being inspired by some blogs like Hand Drawn Nomad and Victor Ens’ blog. I did a quick test of a ball bouncing off a hill:

Not spectacular, but I’m learning!

UPDATE: Done another animation of some facial expressions:

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