lovely furry with hijab :3 *insta-fave*

I always find it precious when rabbits and Fennec's get their ears pierced, dunno why...

Question? What is it that you use, what sort of pens, markers, pencils do you use?

For this and pretty much all the colored line art, I use a Niji stylist or equivelent fine line marker and Yasutomo Sumie Japanese watercolors. A few pieces, like the Art Ho line art was done with a crow quill dip pen, others, like the Coyote Girl and (crudely done) Mandy material was done with a brush. As for pencils, its all a .5mm HB hardness mechanical pencil.

Well damn, and here I am messing around with 2H, 4H, 2B and the like in the way of pencils. I do like your style of work specifically the pencil stuff. You somehow manage to capture feelings, emotions and actions in a way that I am trying to figure out how to do and keep failing at. Ah well back to the sketch pad! Thanks

Half the trick with a pencil choice is the paper choice. The "toothiness" of the paper will dictate a lot of how the pencil will work. Needless to say, I don't use hot press or plate finish papers or board, though they take ink lines better, they can make pencil work almost impossible, and watercolors work differntly on them as well.

Never knew that? about the paper?

A Fine Fehnnik Favorite For The Finicky Fan

Superb.

Fehnnik-y goodness?

Indeed...

First of Elin's fehnniks you did in my sketchbooks

And this is the earliest of your Fehnnik illustrations I can recall having seen. I don't remember where I saw it or exactly when, but it probably turned up on a Google Images crawl powered by fennec...

And it isn't the earliest I've done. For reference, I first saw Tales of the Fehnnik in the summer of '95 and started doodling my own interpretation almost immediately. Pat Kelly had a portfolio as well and was a big part of the appeal.

Actually, I remembered your name in association with the Albedo stuff of forever ago (probably still have a few issues -- wherever my Omahas are). I saw this and said something on the order of, "Hey, good; he's still doing this stuff."

Started in SF art shows in 1980, prototype issue of Albedo in '83, first real issues in '84.

That sounds about right. I think I bought three or four issues in the mid '80s on the say-so of the kid in the comic shop of the book store in town (which I think I've mentioned before). He also tried to get me to buy into this ridiculous series about anthropomorphic tortoises that lived under the city and practiced shinobi fighting skills. As if that would ever go anywhere. I did discover Usagi Yojimbo, Dalgoda and Stig's Inferno around the same time.

I swapped first issues with Eastman and Laird back in the day.