"Longfingers" (pen and ink)

Inked drawing of some creatures from somewhere and/or somewhen else. Inspired (accidentally, compositionally) by a coloring book illustration from Torn World. I also had in the back of my a head a book I had as a kid, After Man: A Zoology of the Future. I think these are marsupalian, with some raccoon-like and some lemur-like characteristics.

This is a digitally cleaned up version of the original illustration. There's a matte version also (that is how I gave it to my friend for her birthday).

Visually, I wonder which version is better, and why... I don't mean in terms of quality of the image file you see, but whether the cropped (by the matting) or uncropped one is better.

Bellflowers

Fiddling again with that cool technique of Linda Kemp's -- the negative space, front-to-back stuff. Plus colored pencil. Working on this while waiting for other stuff to dry. Didn't turn out as I'd thought I was planning, but that's OK.

Original is 3"x7" on cold press paper of some kind, watercolors and colored pencil.

Prints can be available, of course. Original is also for sale (very occasionally something sells and I don't get the image page updated soon enough); email me!