This is a back-dated post for my archive project, where I am copying over every piece of art I have ever submitted to DeviantArt, with the original submission date or watermarked year stamp, so a complete archive of my work can be found on this website, even if the item was never or is no longer displayed in my portfolios.

Originally posted September 28, 2010.

8″x14″ micron pen on vellum paper
~10 hours of work

For the record, I find stippling tremendously tedious. I’m not sure why, because I can happily tick away on fur textures for hours, but stippling bores me to tears.

The tea pot was a prop available in the classroom, and this was started as a basic exercise. The teacher said we could finish it out and use it for our homework if we wanted, so, of course that’s what I wanted to do, because I had a good part of the paper drawn on already. The rest of the image is all without direct reference of any kind.