Kristen Maslanka's Fantastic Realities

Honestly, there's nothing like sitting back with your sketchbook and just playing around with doodles and fun designs. It's a great opportunity to work on aspects I can improve *coughhandscough* and on new materials or methods! 

Inktober 23- Juicy. Remember plucking those juicy peaches right off the tree and trying not to drip everywhere? Inktober 28-- The Fall 

                                                       One of the things I love to do is crosshatch. For these, I took inspirations from some of my favorites- Charles Dana Gibson and A.B Frost. For the bottom I believe the theme was "lost time traveler" so I simply couldn't pass up an opporunity to work in Jay Ward Style remnicient of Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

I've had so much fun exploring new inking techniques. I've been digging out my Joseph Clement Coll and Bernie Wrightson books and setting them beside my Heinrich Kley books, pouring over their work. It's marvelous the power of line work. I recall visiting an exhibit at the Getty-- Gustav Klimt and the Magic of Line. Throughout the exhibit they demonstrated examples of his fluid line and I was smitten. What we can do with line is remarkable, so I'd like to bring that to my work as well.