Inktober: mushrooms

[eller]

So these are my mushrooms for Inktober! :) I again used my fountain pen with fude nib, except this time I drew on grey paper so I could also use white highlights. For these, I used a Faber Castell PITT artist pen that's not entirely cheating because it contains "India ink - waterproof".

I feel kind of bad for wasting a whole A4 sheet of rather expensive paper for this, except I really wanted to see if this technique works out. It doesn't. Now I know. (It's really annoying when something ends up too bad to sell but too nice to throw away without hesitation. What am I going to do with all that wastepaper? ;_;)

Yesterday I also drew something about "dance" but I decided not to upload it - the sketch turned out nice, so I decided to use it as basis of a lineart for a collaboration game thing. Unfortunately, the participants' drawings have to be kept secret. Oh well.

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Oh, I guess semi-professional sums it up nicely. The only reason I don't do art full-time is that algorithm designers in our society are better paid than watercolorists. ;) But I do spend a lot of time on trains (commuting to and from work) so I'm almost constantly painting when I'm not busy with evil mathematics. ^^

Seems we're different in our approach to art, then. It's also "playful" for me but, at the same time, playful means also trying to improve. (So - my actual "playing" is also basically limited to chess... Tournament chess. Can you see a pattern there? XD) For me, art is... Something I want. I guess.