Artober 2020- Day 16- Another Monster in Their Setting

 Similar to the excercise from Day 14, I went for a hypnotic smartphone that sleeps in a chest of drawers (like my old phones!)

Artober 2020- Day 12- Create Your Own Universe Excercise (Literature and Concept Storyboard Panels)

 Today's excercise is about setting the scene. So I had to come up with a paragraph that sets up the scene. So here it is. 

"Abingdon. A place you want to retire and die, than to work and prosper. The best things happen in nearby Oxford, whilst the townsfolk appear more xenophobic than their more liberal city neighbours. In a town like this, you are either born here, or you get stuck here by no fault of your own. Guess how I got here? "

 

Below are some concept panels to suggest local landmarks. I might revisit that pencilled scene just to add the neccessary detail to make it more readable.

Artober 2020- Days 9 to 11- Create Your Own Universe Excercises

 I was on holiday during those, but I managed to start work on Part Four of this Brothers McLeod book.

This included doing an imaginary map, but I was kind of inspired what I was doing on holiday at the time. The other two are characters I created back in Day 6 and Day 8 sitting on chairs, as this was important for character development into what kind of seating would they be used to. 

Inktober- Day 31- Study of Pinnochio's Coachman

Today wasn't the best day for me to try and study a scene from Disney's Pinnochio, as discussed in a tweet from Joey Waggoner. I didn't have much time to do, but I did say I wanted to try and study other artwork, but maybe THAT smile from that film's Coachman was an ambitious task.

Inktober- Day 30- Moomin meets The Babadook

Inspired by Erin Hunting's latest post of the Australian screen monster, The Babadook, I couldn't resist getting vibes of Tove Jansson's work when viewing in my feed. So guess what I tried to do? This! It was fun trying to draw them all, even thou the Moomin do NOT have nostrils. I don't know what I was thinking. I also found a medium ink pen to achieve some different inking over the rough pencil sketch. I'm not sure if I the tonal colouring of The Babadook, but I've been itching to try drawing those Moomin characters for a while since watching that very good British dub of MoominValley.

Inktober- Day 29- Doodles

Not much to say, but just some doodles did at a meeting, but I think I need to reboot my computer soon as I am having fun trying to run Firefox and Photoshop at the moment... at least there are only a few days left of Inktober to go through first.

Inktober- Day 23- Globox Doodle

Yeah, this was a little bit different for me to do, but over on Rayman Reanimated's Twitter page, they got The Globox Doodle Collab going. So I thought I give this a go, being inspired by this character's rain dance from one of his first appearances in the Rayman video game series.

They did say it was a doodle, so I went for a rough pen sketch before going over the in a thicker brush pen as I needed to erase the background to create a transparent PNG file for their use. Wish me luck!

Inktober- Day 9- Life Drawing and Script Doodles

Wednesday was another busy day with another thing on in the evening. Luckily, I managed to do a slightly more convincing quick life drawing of this figure on the bus, as well as do some doodling during my meeting. One of those figures doodled reminds of that footman from Jan Svankmajer's Alice.

Bare-Knuckle Boxer- 'Refined' Doodle

I guess I was transfixed on some of the stuff I have been working on with the Loomis book to draw this character. I was also inspired from the TV series, Who Do You Think You Are, which found that one of the celebrities was descended from a famous bare-knuckle boxer.
It is not a brilliant character sketch, but I know I might be able to improve on it by using some of the techniques in the Loomis book- I still need to upload whole chapters of my studies onto this blog soon.