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10-Pack of Printable Mazes

mazeFor the past year the student newspaper of Stevens Institute of Technology, The Stute, has been publishing my weaving mazes. It's been wonderful to see a project that started as a meditative daily practice move into print and I look forward to seeing them every Friday. I've put together ten of these mazes into a printable PDF. Have fun and get lost!

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A Week of Daily Drawing

inktober-05-pizza
I'm still going strong after a week of daily drawings of my food. I started off poorly with a picture of grapes that wound up being so over worked with ink wash that I had to throw it away. Since then I've refined my process and have been enjoying trying a new pen, the PITT brush pen from Faber-Castell. I started using it for the pizza picture above, and like being able to vary the thickness of my line after using Sakura Micron 08 and 01 pens. More

Inktober in October

inky-handTomorrow is the first day on Inktober and it looks like a great opportunity to work on a new daily exercise. I spent 2 months at the end of the summer drawing mazes every day and it turned out to be very rewarding. I was able to explore a variety of different ways to make mazes and developed some new techniques for drawing, digitizing and coloring that will prove valuable in all my drawings.
 
Inktober is an annual exercise in daily discipline during the month of October. Created as an informal challenge by illustrator Jake Parker in 2009, artists around the world will make an ink drawing every day for 31 days and post it with the hashtag #inktober on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, or wherever. I have an upcoming magazine commission to create illustrations of beer, wine and restaurants so for Inktober I'll be drawing whatever food and drink I can find around my apartment. My plan is to use a brush pen and sumi ink wash and I'll be posting work-in-progress on my Instagram and finished drawings on my Tumblr. Let the inking begin! UPDATE: I'm posting the full set on my Flickr account.