Days 8 to 14- Artober 2021 (Teddy Bear to Pink Panther)

 Yeah, I didn't plan to post all of these together, but I've had a lot going on during this week, so here we go...

Yeah, this is just a fun sketch of some teddy bear character. I might revisit this. 

On this day, I was watching a live stream of someone playing a ToeJam and Earl game, and one of the enemies was an opera singer. So here's my attempt at this character from memory.

Got inspired to draw this character from an old friend's batch of photographs taken when they were shopping for pumpkins. I quite like this character. 

Yeah, I didn't have that many art materials when I was doing this piece, hence using a highlighter rather than my trusty brush pens to draw out these characters. They make a good duo. 

Another day, and another live stream, this time they were playing that Nickeloden All-Star Brawl video game. So here's CatDog from memory. Not too bad. 

Yay! I had my brush pens back in reachable distance, so I drew this character based on a speaker I tried to watch via Zoom on Monday, which explains some of the details on this one. 

As being a fan of the Pink Panther character since I was a kid, I've never really drawn them before. This was very poignant with the passing of David H Patie doing the rounds on my Facebook feed that day. I like how this came out in the end. 

90 Minute Art Challenge- Number 19

 I've finally got around to doing this #90MinuteArtChallenge from last week and... yikes! No wonder you were meant to do this in monochrome. I got bogged down on one side of the piece that I ran out of time to do the other. Let's hope I don't have that with the most recent Art

Artober 2020- Day 8- Create Your Own Universe Excercise

 

Just finally finished the third of this Brothers McLeod book, and the last excercise involving drawing their character from the Isle of Spagg in a different. I went down the Popeye/Steamboat Willie approach and made them quite an agitated character. I didn't really drew any friends for him because seems to be a bit of a grouch.

Inktober- Day 8- Life Drawings

Tuesday was a bit busy for me because of work commitments so I did some life drawing on the bus. The top one looked too messy to read, so I managed to do just an ink drawing on the same subject. They are okay in my book, but not convincing to depict what the figure was whilst on the bus. Luckily I did a still life of this bicycle, but I wished I drew the background as well to give it context. 

Inktober- Day 8- Self Portrait

I just wanted to experiment with my recent invested Copic marker in terms of tonal work. Whilst you don't get much tonal work with blocks of black ink, I was glad to experiment with this brush pen that I'm not well acquainted whilst doing this quick self-portrait done with a mirror. Having done a lot of expressions recently to get my professional character-based illustrations that extra dimension in terms of 'performance', it was something that was to happen sooner rather than later. 

Inktober- Day 8- Man on Bus

I think that this was rather successful. I was able to draw the male figure convincingly, and used the brush pen to acheive some minimalist effects when it came to the background of the bus.