A little behind on my sketching time this week (intense projects going on), so I’m pulling from my ‘archives.’ More new sketches to come next week!

So I’ve been a little bogged down and only recently started working on my commissions— apologies all! Hopefully you’ll agree they’ll be worth the wait. But for now here are two of them. I may flop back and forth between straight black and white and washes— I love the look of washes but am still learning how to do them! I need to find my sumi ink supplies again… Flying tiger and bear, away! 

More details on the bestiary here!

I don’t garden (though I sort of want to!), but I do like food, so more opportunities to practice drawing it is a-okay with me! Working with the lovely Adrienne Pitts again over at Jamie Magazine— not even the wrath of Eyjafjallajokull could stop us from getting some fun artwork together! (Seriously, bad timing when you’re working on deadlines. Shame on you, Volcano.) Anyhow, this may be a sort of recurring assignment for me— which I am psyched for, because drawing plants surprisingly can be a lot of fun. And I’ve never been great at it so I’m glad for the opportunity to up my skills! There were five spots all in all for each subject. 

This one was all about the varieties of salad greens— I’ve decided I vastly prefer the British terms to ours. We don’t get to eat rocket! Crying shame in my book.

A little spot of broad beans and ladybugs. There was one point while working late that I drew a Mameshiba on a bean. The things we do to amuse ourselves, friends!

The unfortunately named water butt.

How to hoe your garden.

And lastly, picking potatoes.

Since I’ve been bad on sharing process, also attaching some of the sketches I came up with for them. I haven’t had to come up with a lot of multiple sketches for these, so they don’t really change too much from start to finish. 

And here’s how they look like on the page. I hope you enjoy!