Night Creatures

Here are some more recent journal spreads. I've started to go towards darker scenes with thicker, more dense areas of dark pencil. They create such a nice mood. I love to go for a sort of serene night time scene, glistening with stars. The perfect mysterious time.

Pages with a lot of empty white space don't really excite me in this journal, especially with the transparency. As soon as I add those dark zones, the transparent layering starts to look much cooler and have much more depth.

I still keep feeling like I should use both sides of each page, really commit to playing with the transparency more, but it's always weird when you must effectively destroy the previous image to do that. Although, my frog-stamping moment really felt right, felt like it added the perfect texture to the other side - so maybe I should try more stamping.

I have completely used up one mechanical pencil lead while working in this journal. I discovered that a mechanical pencil feels amazing in here, super smooth and sharp. But tragically, I don't currently have any refills, so I've had to return to the traditional pencil. It's amazing how fast a pencil dulls when you're filling in large spaces.

The variation in lines works perfectly well for those big segments of pencil, where all merge together, but it's just so satisfying to use the sharp, perfect, never-dull lead of a mechanical pencil.

Nevermind, I'm here to wear out as many pencils as possible. I cackle and the pencils quiver.