While I draw by hand more often for sketches, I do enjoy the quality and permanence of etching into a board or inking a paper.
Traditional hand drawn art will never go out of style, and is always a great way to practice and test out techniques.
FROM SCRATCHBOARD, TO PENCILS, PENS, AND MORE
ARTIFACT ILLUSTRATIONS
STONE TOOL:
SCRAPER
Ink pen scaled drawing of scraper tool. Drawn from observation and outline based off of 3D scanned model of tool.
STONE TOOL:
GREY FLINT
Ink pen scaled drawing of grey flint tool. Drawn from observation and outline based off of 3D scanned model of tool.
SKULL SPECIMEN:
ALOUATTA CARAYA
Pencil rendering of Howler monkey skull. Drawn from observation, enhanced on Adobe Photoshop, and labelled on Adobe Illustrator.
ARTIFACT:
EGYPTIAN SHABTI
Stipple rendering of Egyptian shabti. Drawn from 3D scanned rendering of artifact, outline drawn in Affinity Designer, stipple made by hand, and labelled on Adobe Illustrator.
ARTIFACT:
H. NALEDI MANDIBLE
Charcoal rendering of Homo naledi mandible. Drawn from 3D scanned rendering of artifact and observation of 3D printed replica, outline drawn in Affinity Designer, illustrations made by hand, and labelled on Adobe Illustrator.
TONAL
DRAWINGS
LIFE
DRAWINGS
