missed my pens

I realized I've been drawing pretty much nothing than my thesis, which I already want to set on fire and throw out the window. Intervention was necessary.

So I tried to do some stuff similar to Aubrey Beardsley's style. He's one of my favorites. His style is dark with hits of Japanese influence and some Art Nouveau flair.

It's been ages since I used my Sakura pens. They were quite dusty, but usable still much to my relief. I drew my picture and scanned it.
I also used a handy Photoshop action called "make scan into lineart" from my sophomore digital coloring class to color. Unfortunately it's been too long since I used this process, so I did some unorthodox ways to haphazardly (very incorrectly) make the whole thing work.

If this looks familiar, then I don't have to say more.w I can't say that I'm proud about how this came out, but it was refreshing to do something else for a change.

I often don't like how my inked works come out, and I like them even less when I try to color them. I'm not sure if it has to do with the Photoshop process from that class because it often makes my drawing so irreversibly choppy, ruining the handiwork I've done beforehand, or my scanner is just that good at screwing up everything. BLAH!!

I'll try to do some more pen-work in the future, and I'll provide both the color and uncolored versions.