throw it at the wall! (biiig sketchbook dump) (Patreon)

did a lot of sketching recently and figured I'd just throw it all together into one big dump. got a jumble of stuff in here from self portraits, to pencil sketches, to mixed media pieces (gouache + oil pastels have proven a particularly winning combo). also started playing around with different gouache techniques (wet on wet in last pic) and I love watching the colors bloom and react to the water on the paper. so fascinating! by chance also messed around a bunch with various sliders while editing these photos in lightroom and realized you can get a ton more mileage out of a piece in post-processing. for example, pic 7 is the original scan and pic 8 is the one I edited a ton. I'm intrigued by how it completely transforms the look, mood, and feel of the original sketch, really cool! excited to play around with that more. :]