Been there, drawn that

 And since I already sketched Avatar back in the days ,,, BIC ballpen, drawing on the fly

  Fooling around with a toothbrush and white wash (on watercolors)

 

I know most people do it with photocopies, but that's so not my style. So, to prepare Sir Francis Drake's journal for my Uncharted I walkthrough (I'm replaying it just now), first I got the document from the  National Library of Australia repository and then I sketched all pages I could see in the game in brown, cheap paper, using black and red de Atramentis ink (it's important that the ink is REALLY waterproof).   Then, I bathed pages in hot black tea for a few minutes and spread some instant coffee on top for extra stains.  I dried the pages and the oven tray with kitchen paper before I put them into the oven. 200º 6 minutes (preheated) And finally I left them under some weight for the night (enveloped in oven paper, so they would not stain anything) And here's the result. I quite like it.

And they keep moving all the time ... :P  

 

  Guess what I'll be doing the next days?

Mythical creatures from A to Z (bonus if they are not from your usual UK tales): Alkonost (slavic), Brownie (UK), Crinaeae (Greece), Dökkalfer (Norse countries), E'wah (Cherokee), Faun (Greece), Goblin (Europe), Homunculus (Medieval)

 

The Phoecians (possibly Corfu) and Ithaca

  Calypso and the Phoeacians ... let's say Gozo (Malta) and Corfu. And we're almost in Ithaca now

The Last of Us American Dream & The Last of Us Left Behind Ellie's journal (fanart) Naughty Games (PS4)

  The Sun God stage. Agrigento, maybe?

  Final part of Ellie's journal in Naughty Dog PS4 videogame The Last of Us Part II