These are my favorite memories from this trip. Hearing the humpback whales singing underwater on nearly every dive was wonderful. At some spots they could even be heard while snorkeling. Also, I had the opportunity to see whitetip sharks snoozing under ledges during the day. Amazing stuff all around.
“Down into Davy Jones’ Locker ye’ll be if yer foolish enough to swim in these seas.” – Sonny ‘Two-peg, one-eye, hook-finger’ Cooper — Layered water color pencils (yellow, blue, carmine), graphite pencil
Mmmm… tasty sea kitten sushi. It looks nice and fresh too. — I started out drawing the big round one in the center without anything particular in mind (as I tend to draw fish when I can’t think of anything else to draw). It was about this time I saw a reference to sea kittens [...]
[click on the drawing to see large version] Sometimes you get a craving to draw a bunch of Batmen (and a Robin). — Micron pen, colored pencils (Prang and Prismacolor), pencil, and ballpoint pen.
If you have not see the animated film Coraline yet, do. Really. It’s a wonderful story with gorgeous stop motion animation and has an excellent soundtrack. Even the changes from Neil Gaiman’s original story I thought were done very well – they added rather than detracted from the story. It has easily become one of [...]
[click on snake-thing to enlarge] This snake-thing creeps me out. Damn freaky imagination. It started out as me passing the time at a family holiday party, drawing lots and lots of little circles. I only managed to get the snake-thing a quarter done at the time. I finished up the snake-thing then let it sit [...]
I had this grand idea that I would do an image for each of the twelve days of Christmas, making something whimsical that went along with the song. Yeah… yet another project that never got finished. Ah well… there’s always next year, right? — Pen with a splash of watercolor
[click image to enlarge] I think I may have gotten a bit carried away with the patterns… so carried away, in fact, that they sprouted worms… and a periscope, apparently. — Some pencil, some colored pencil, a bit of pen and a dash of watercolor.
click image to enlarge Yay! A new sketchbook! I decided to splurge and get myself a nice moleskine watercolor book. So far I don’t regret this decision. The owl on the left was done in pencil and the critters on the right were done in pen and gouache watercolor. I’m finding that I really like [...]
