Alexander Stanton

February’s downloadable artbook is now available from my Patreon, Ko-Fi, Gumroad and Bandcamp (links in bio).

It features absolutely everything I created throughout the month. All made my own hands (with none of that stinky AI slop):

Thank you so much!

Alt. version of yesterday’s finger + ink anima portrait (NR):

Thank you!

I’ve been working on this month’s downloadable art book, which I’m happy to say will be available tomorrow!

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Threw a little watercolour on my recent Mucha studies. Could’ve been more careful looking back, but it is what it is.

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Lovely work!

Another character doodle (NR):

Some old dryads and nature folk (NR):

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been figure. So, going to commit to doing a page a day (at least) until it feels natural again. Will alternate between clothes/poses/etc as much as feels fun - fun is the reason.

Right, I’m officially back the figures from imagination tangent. After spending the last few months doing lots of studies and little else, I feel the call to let go to see what falls onto the page for a while.

I’ve been doing that for a bit with head/portraits, but the real challenge has always

Found these old continuous-line animations collecting dust on my hard-drive.

I made them just after going freelance, roughly four years ago. They were a hassle to scan in, clean and arranged but see all my lines rotate was so addictive.

Should do more of these one day.

Pentel colour brush

Fisherman (NR):

Some past self-portraits:

Not really, I’m sorry to say. The Pentel Fude/Colour Brushes can be juicy if you push enough ink out the barrel, but I reckon it’d still be pretty streaky. I feel that tend to slow down when using brushes (pen or traditional) to keep things sharp - unless I’m after an effect.

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Totally, and I’m kinda zen about it not being perfectly close too. It’s more fun to have it be inspired by what I can see than what it actually see. Exaggerated even. Still, might be fun to get all scientific with it all one day (probably not with watercolour though).

Thank you! It’s so fun mixing colours and seeing those subtle hints of blue/green/etc in things. Have dabbled with it in Photoshop, but paint feels so much more tactical and enjoyable.

Thank you! I guess I’m always chasing where I could be and not where I am. I rarely (if ever) like what I do, but I’m happy when people like it. Appreciate it.

Refs from The Croquis Cafe.

Some of today’s watercolour studies. I finally feel like I’m getting somewhere with it all, even if every page still feels like a fluke.

I think that I prefer creating more abstract/colourful pages, but these naturalistic studies have been useful in getting my head around colour and what not.

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