Day 15 and 17- Artober 2021- Illustration and Colouring-In

Before you ask, I had done something for Day 16, but it will come as a separate post because they are on my phone rather than being scanned here. 

Day 15 was done during a meeting for a future leaflet for one of the voluntary groups I attend to. They wanted a simple graphic of a chimney with the smoke coming out as a money sign. I might toy with these later to produce a finalised piece, so stay tuned. 

Day 17 is just a coloured-in drawing done with crayons. I had my nieces over and one of them wanted to do some colouring from this Crayola book that has stickers to go with these drawings. I don't know if this counts as a proper Artober piece... but hey, it was therapeutic colouring in with crayons. 

 

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. 

Day 5 and Day 6- Boat at Sea and Beetlejuice (from Memory!)

Yeah... two days in one. 

Day 5 is just some imaginary seascape.I think there is too much going on, but it'll do. 

Day 6 was inspired from one of my friend's drawings for this month of Beetlejuice. Yeah it's from memory so I couldn't remember how the lines went on his iconic suit. It was fun to try and do this from memory. 

 

Artober 2021- Day 4- Bomb Jack

 

Well it didn't take me long to make some fan art. Just watching a streamer on Twitch playing games on Antstream, including Bomb Jack. I have fond memories of playing this in an arcade many years ago. The pose feels a bit like SuperTed or Super Mario Bros 3, but I wanted to toy with some old stationary I found whilst tidying up today. 

Life Drawings- 1st July 2021- Modern Queer Heroes Workshop.

 I'm so glad I managed to attend this life drawing session, run by Kate Jessop, inspired by her recent film project, Modern Queer Heroes, in which the model posed themself in poses inspired by the 14 people they featured in this collaborative film.  So here are the drawings. 

The first quick sketch was based on George Michael... because of the jacket. 

This one was based on Lady Phyll.

This was based on the musician, Frank Ocean.

This pose was based on Denise Ho.

This pose was based on Janelle Monae. 

This pose was based on the comic book artist, Alison Bechdel.

This pose was inspired by Fox Fisher.

This one was influenced by the YouTuber, Natalie Wynn. 

This one was inspired by the group, Christine and The Queens.

This was inspired by the model, Munroe Bergdorf.

This was influence by the works of Gregg Araki.

This one, which is my personal favourite, was inspired by the musician and activist, Chardine Taylor Stone. 

This pose was inspired by the works of Judith Butler

The final one was inspired by the works of Travis Alabanza.

I'll be honest, this is the first time I've done any life drawing in years, let alone on Zoom. I enjoyed it, and there are plenty of personalities to check out from this film. 

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 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 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 19- MORE Life Drawings

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

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.

Ric Ocasek Fan Art- Ink and Pencil Sketch

I got inspired by Stephen Silver's recent post about drawing from the screen rather than from still photos to create this tribute fan art to The Cars' musician Ric Ocasek. I got inspiration from watching his presence in the official music video for Magic. I gave him shades, like from his live footage,  because I wasn't too confident with sketching some eyes for Ric. I think I'll leave it like this as I like the loose pencilling and inking on this. I will definitely need to get back into doing more drawing again.

Life Drawing- Two Women in Conversation on Bus

I think it's time to ditch this old brush pen, as it starting to make really weak marks when I'm using it. Apart from that, this is okay, although I need to get more confident with conveying hair with the brush pen.

Life Drawing- Old Man with Poppy in Cap

I was able to do my life drawing on the bus again. I was quite pleased with my result with drawing just the man's head, whilst the detail on the bus window might be a bit too abstract amongst the scribbly mark-making I was making on the right.

Life Drawing- Teenager on Bus with Smartphone

I know Inktober is over, but I will try and continue to do life drawings whenever I'm on the bus. So here's a teenager on the bus on his smartphone.

Inktober- Day 24- Life Drawing

 

Did some life drawing on the bus today. Whilst the hair wasn't as rugged as it was in real life, and it was unfinished because they left for their stop, I quite like the minimalist marks on the seating. 

Inktober- Day 20- Potato Designs

Just wanted to play around with this potato character a bit more before developing some of the further scenes for this germ of a film. I quite like how this character looks like, so I might work on some of the other scenes featuring potatoes that I want to include next time.

Inktober- Day 19- Realistic and Cartoon Potato

I though I needed to do some research to develop my potato characters a bit. So I did a realistic study of one, via an image search, followed a cartoon potato with a face on it. I like how the 'tuber' can be made into a nose. I wanted to use a brush pen to draw it to achieve that thick-line 'manga' look that can be easy on the eye, and easy to animate - in theory! I might need to work whether I want to apply simple shading into my film or not; as long I don't try to colour it is like that with a brush pen it could give them some dimension.