Sherman T. Skully - InkTober 2016

November 1, 2016

I have successfully completed the pen and ink drawing challenge for InkTober 2016! There were 31 brand new Sherman T. Skully drawings created this month. It was quite a challenge as each drawing took about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to complete from start to finish, sometimes spanning the entire day as I could find a few minutes to work on them. I created a list of ideas the week before InkTober to work from.

Each drawing started with a pencil sketch in a Piccadilly blank page journal, sometimes using reference for that day's activity. After working out the concept in pencil sketch, inking was done with a Pentel Pocket Brush and sometimes with a new pen that I tried that I received in my October Art Snacks - a Copic Gasenfude Pen. I liked drawing with the Copic Gasenfude, the tip seemed a little shorter than the Pentel Pocket Brush. The ink in the Gasenfude did not appear as black though as the ink in the Pocket Brush.

After inking, I used watercolor pencils on the cream colored paper of the journal, which is not watercolor paper. After wetting the watercolor pencils with a waterbrush to blend them, the journal pages would really curl and buckle, but I like the way the color looks on them. The finished drawings were scanned on Epson V500 Photo flatbed scanner.

I will be continuing the drawings, though not on a daily basis, so be sure to follow @sherman.t.skully on instagram to see what he gets into next.

31 Days of Skully for Inktober 2016

September 30, 2016

For this year's Inktober challenge I will be drawing a new Sherman T. Skully cartoon each day! Look for new postings to my Instagram account devoted to the goofy skeleton @sherman.t.skully

Funky Skeleton Drawings

November 24, 2015

We all know that I have a fascination with skeletal anatomy, though I'm not entirely familiar with all the names of the different bones. I'm especially fond of sketching skulls, mostly with an ink brush style pen such as the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. I love the varying line widths that I can get with the brush pen. After completing a rough pencil sketch of the skeleton idea I have, I like to ink it in with the brush pen and then add color and texture to the drawing with watercolor pencil and Faber Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pens. I'm also quite fond of the of the waterproof Pitt Artist Pens with their bright colors and lightfastness. I'm thinking that I want to continue these goofy skeletal drawings and perhaps create a skeletal character that might be used on t-shirts, mugs, and such.