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. 

Artober 2021- Day 3- Blob/Splat

 I just let my imagination run riot with this one. No clear agenda, just making shapes with pencils and several ink pens. 

Artober 2021- Day 1- Rubber Hose Characters.

 I kind of got inspired by this Toontober challenge that I kept seeing on my social media feeds. The first three days were going to be the theme on Rubber Hose, so I just attempting to do some characters with some rubber hose aesthetics. The face on the dust bin cracked me up. 

The bottom picture was some earlier pencil and ink drafts before fully committing to my piece. 

Artober 2020- Day 17- Unhappy Appliances

 I'll be honest, I wasn't feeling like doing much drawing today. So here's some out-dated appliances being unhappy. Next!

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 14- Monster in a Setting (Create Your Own Universe Excercise)

 I went onto the next excercise in this, and I have to "revisit" some monsters I drew earlier on. But as that was a few years ago, I thought I just create some new ones instead, as long as I think about its setting. 

So here's the All-Seeing-Eye Monster, with cameras for eyes making sure everyone follows the rules especially during this confusing time. Has a pair of arms and feet, this gigantic can view multiple groups in public spaces, such as bus stops, cafes, and supermarkets. 

I might do a few more monsters off the cuff like this for a while, or just revisit them with colour.

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. 

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 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 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 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.