Back from Spring Break!

One nice, relaxing spring break later, I am back. The combination of family and playing Psychonauts and Portal 2 for the first time was amazing for post-quarter stress! Incidentally, if you haven't played either of those games, I can't recommend them enough. Seriously. Especially if you appreciate games that are incredibly creative in concept and level design, and very different than a lot of what's out there these days.

 I played a little bit with these water-soluble graphite pencils, and I loved them immediately. When I started drawing, I mainly did black and white stuff, so naturally I was intrigued by these. It's like painting with pencil, which is actually something that I've wanted to do for a while.

These are just some doodles, since the only pencil I could borrow was a very short 6B and only 30 min to play around. I'm going to look around for a few to get for myself to practice with even more.

The squid-like creature in these was inspired by something my high school art teacher showed me a picture of, a strange thing she found on the ground on her property. I can only guess at what it really is, but it definitely looks like some kind of land squid.