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 28- Fon Fon Cover Study and Life Drawing

Managed to do a few pieces yesterday, with a study of a vintage magazine cover, titled Fon Fon, that a good Facebook friend shared the other day. I need to do more studies of other people's works just to fully understand how they are doing things on a constructional level, such the foldings on Father Christmas' sleeves.
The life drawing, en route to Oxford for another meeting followed by some open mic antics, is pretty good. 

Inktober- Day 27- Shaun the Sheep

The past few days have been a bit of a blur because of doing uncle duties, but that does mean watching plenty of contemporary children's programming, including Shaun the Sheep. So here's an off-model take on that titular character for today. 

Inktober- Day 26- Laundry Basket Character

Inspired by a recent behind the scenes video of an animator, Hombre_McSteez, bringing to life a laundry basket as an animated character, I thought I give that character a go. The perspective isn't good on the basket's interior, but I managed to get a reasonable likeness to that character.

Inktober- Day 25- Cookie Monster Display

Some of my Facebook friends have been this brilliant Halloween display over in Pennsylvania, and I couldn't resist trying to draw it from the news segment about it. It was fun trying to get the shadows into the scene as that made the Cookie Monster display give the impression of the iconic character's mouth shape. I need to do more studies like this as I tend to do just character-focused rather than environmental/architectural pieces.

Inktober- Day 24- Doodles

Didn't have much time to do some proper drawing today, so here's some doodles I did on a programme note for a film society screening. 

Inktober- Day 22- Life Drawings

There were not successful, but then again, my mind on trying to do some errands, including being an extra for a film being shot that day. 

Inktober- Day 21 - Life Drawing

I drew this on the way to my first open mic night performance in Oxford. I'm quite pleased with the detail I got on the right figure here. 

Inktober- Day 20- Tico and Rigadon (Around the Word of Willy Fog)

I got inspired from Manue Illustrations' Inktober sketch of a couple from Around the World of Willy Fog, so I did ANOTHER couple from that show, Rigadon and Tico. I emulated what the hell was going on in that show's intro. I think I made Tico the stuff of nightmares with those staring eyes, but it was bloody fun trying to draw these two characters.   

Inktober- Day 19- MORE Life Drawings

This time, I think the smaller-nib piece was the more successful piece this time around.

Inktober- Day 18- Magic Towel

When your good creative friends, Sumita writes a fun episode to a pre-school series, there is only one thing to do; do fan art of it!
Magic Towel is a one-off character from Pablo, a recent pre-school series that has earned a well-recieved following for its application of tackling autism in all its many  aspects. This episodes looks into this mascot - who probably owns more to Mighty Mouse than the original aesthetics- that has an earworm of a jingle to their advert. Think Triple-Dent Gum from Inside Out, and you get a good idea without seeing the episode.  

Inktober- Day 17- Doodles

Yeah, today wasn't the day to do too much, so here are some doodles I did during a film society screening on that evening.

Inktober- Day 16- Comic Colouring and Life Drawings.

Wow! I had a productive, and I'm liking what the marks are making that I did doing some life drawings today. The comic is for a potential paid assignment, hence the censored faces.

Inktober- Day 15- Life Drawings

I'm quite liking the marks I'm making when I do life drawing on the buses with this dual-head brush pen. I quite like the marks with the smaller nibs on this study.

Inktober- Day 14- Marvin the Parnoid Android

After one of my mates mentioned that the actor that played Marvin in the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galxy had passed away recently, I had to give drawing Marvin a go. I messed up the arms a bit, but I'm glad I got the detail on his torso well enough.
Below is just a rough sketch, with some ink marks to work out what nib to use on the final piece. 

Inktober- Day 13- Life Drawing

Yeah Sunday there wasn't much time to do any drawing, except this quick life drawing on the bus. Like how I got in the legs and the hands surrounding the hands of this figure.

Inktober- Day 12- Not Again Cartoon

One of my professional Facebook friends shared a cartoon from Vic Kasinja's Taxina series. I was inspired by the figure in the foreground's pose, I was inspired to create my own cartoon out of it... only with a more topical topic on a contemporary telly.

Inktober- Day 11- SuperMarioLand Meme Study

You've seen that meme featuring that vintage photo of an adult playing a Gameboy with children surrounding them? Well, they said it looked like a renaissance painting... and well my study ain't like that!