itesser ink: progress, uncensored

It's amazing how quickly the posts rack up when I push myself to be so diligent. One of the downsides of all this technology, however, is the missing tactile relationship between crafter and crafted. When I was younger and writing a lot in spiral notebooks one of the most relished feelings was paper with the texture of ballpoint writing on both sides of the sheet.

Now I watch the change of pages from the "clean" side of my sketchbook to the "drawn" side. It's very satisfying. I wonder what a stack of 60-some blog posts feels like.

And so, your daily dose of 20k. I mean Captain Nemo. In my exercises today, I drew a lot of shirtless James Mason.



Making cameo appearances in the second page here are birds drawn from Birdchick photos. From this post, I believe. Birds are so very different from humans, I like the addition of the feathered friends into my daily warm-ups. Or if not daily, as often as Sharon posts images of birds.