My entry for the #scbwi drawing challenge. The word was “surprise”. This is traditional pen and ink and watercolor. No touchups. Hope you enjoy.
Author: stepheningram
Ocean
A little watercolor practice. New scanner really picks up the paper.
Pen and ink work
Ready to add watercolor. Just wanted to get a copy of the pen and ink first.
Colour Collective Celedon
Pen and ink and watercolor. Colors are a little blown out. Enjoy.
Square cat
Just a little experiment with watercolor and cats. The colors are a little saturated. That is the result of my scan. Just pen and ink with a few watercolor washes. Hope you enjoy. 
Pouring
For this illustration, which I am doing for this week’s https://twitter.com/Clr_Collective which is Deep Koamaru, I used a combination of traditional and digital art. I scanned a pen and ink line drawing, separated some of the layers in photoshop and then brought the work into Corel painter. CP has a great way of coloring line work, or at least making it easy. I use their gradation tool with a little bit of texture on the fly which is a new feature. Enjoy.
Pen and ink watercolor in celebration of valentine’s day
I’ve tried this sketch a few times. This is the best at the moment. I threw some pen down with some watercolor. I guess some people can be surprised when they are lent a helping hand.
Pen and ink space shuttle illustration
A little bit of a line experiment. This is the moment the solid rocket boosters detach from the main body of the space shuttle. I think I exaggerated the point of orbit at this point.
I did this on the train to the SCBWI NY Conference. It always is a bumpy ride on the train, so I kept the pen on the paper for the bulk of the drawing. It gave me an interesting line.
Some pen and ink and watercolor
Pulling out the watercolors to play.
