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  • Saturday Sketches

    More quick drawings, references from bodiesinmotion.photo

    4 August, 2022
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    More drawings, pencil on paper with digital ink on top. References from all over the web, but mostly form shorpy.com

    10 October, 2020
    SaturdaySketches
  • The last of Inktober 2018

    Inktober is over. I had way more fun than I expected with these and I have acquired some approximative knowledge of inks and brushes. I…

    4 November, 2018
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

    Week four. Who knows, maybe next year… I can plan ahead and… make an actual graphic novel? Because, it turns out, no matter how little…

    29 October, 2018
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

       Here are all the images from the second week of Inktober. Enjoy!

    23 October, 2018
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Saturday Sketches – Inktober 2018

    And here you have – week three. Am I unreasonably proud of myself? YES I AM.

    23 October, 2018
    inktober, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    …the last of 2017 :)

    30 December, 2017
    Illustration, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    And now for something… slightly different, I guess. Aromanian costume Various Romanian costumes, south of the country.

    3 December, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    How do you learn to ink digitally? There must be some secret rules French comic artist pass from one generation to another… Well, anyway, here…

    4 November, 2017
    Comics, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    Balamuc / loc de joacă ș-altele invited me to take part in their sketchbook exhibition – ”În linii mari”, running from the 30th of September…

    21 October, 2017
    Illustration, SaturdaySketches
  • Visual Playground – Day2

    The second day was Mattias Adolfsson‘s workshop. Photo credits: Cătălin Georgescu He always seemed to me like a person who has waaaay too much fun…

    9 August, 2017
    Illustration
  • Saturday Sketches

    From bodiesinmotion.photo

    12 March, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    More costume study – English (1600), Ottoman(1870), Polish, Greek, Georgian, Macedonian and derivations. Does anyone know where I can find a costume history with some…

    5 March, 2017
    Resources, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    Look, I discovered Pascal Sebah! Expect more Ottoman Costumes :D

    18 February, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    Here we go. references from bodiesinmotion.

    28 January, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    … I have new reference material! https://www.bodiesinmotion.photo/

    21 January, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    … guess what, end-of-the-week drawings are back. This time, some sort of research for some sort of webcomic that might someday happen. Maybe. Based on…

    14 January, 2017
    SaturdaySketches
  • Scheherazade – Making of

    Here’s a look at the process for the third illustration in the series, and the first one I did – The Young Prince and Princess.…

    6 January, 2017
    Illustration
  • Saturday Sketches

    This week, I was studying fashion, on the Vogue website – part of the ongoing series, Maria learns to draw clothes.

    19 November, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    Not the best week ever.

    12 November, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Inktober Week 3

    October 22 Kurd October 21 Kurd October 20 Bosnian October 19 - Armenian October 18 - Armenian October 17 Ottoman October 16 Ottoman
    22 October, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Inktober Week 2

      Here we go, the second week of inktober. References from old photos of Constantinopolis, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, my garden…

    15 October, 2016
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Inktober Week 1

      So, here’s the first week of Inktober 2016! Pentel brush with Ecoline wash, references from Camillo Balossini, Ida Wyman and ”Elizabeth, the golden age”…

    8 October, 2016
    SaturdaySketches, inktober
  • Saturday Sketches

    I’m yet to find a way of integrating this style into illustrations or comics. It looks a lot like mezzotint, and I may be exorcising…

    24 September, 2016
    Illustration, SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

    Today is (mostly) black-and white day! Turns out I didn’t save the photo ref for this one :(, so google images can’t help me with…

    17 September, 2016
    SaturdaySketches
  • Saturday Sketches

        This time around…. watercolour! Not really, but close enough. Brush by Kyle T Webster :).

    20 August, 2016
    SaturdaySketches

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