Inktober 2017, Days 1-5

My first few drawings for Inktober. It might also be Drawlloween as I've chosen a Halloween/horror theme, although I'm not using the Drawlloween prompts. 

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Drawlloween Day 20: Skull.

Drawlloween 20: Skull.

I’ve been too occupied to keep up with this, sadly, so I’m going to skip a few things on the list and do the fun ones. Here’s my favourite skull, Murray from the Monkey Island games. The mighty demonic skull, the harbinger of your doom, and who “would look great with a melting candle on his forehead.”

Happy Birthday Snoopy

Apparently it's Snoopy's 65th Birthday. #DrawSnoopy is trending on Twitter. I've been a fan of Peanuts longer than I can remember but I still find Snoopy one of the hardest characters ever to draw.

Subterranean T-Rex Blues

Dreamt London was attacked by a T-Rex & I hid in a tube station WITH BOB DYLAN. Wish you could pre-order dreams. #simpletwistofjurassicpark
— KT Tunstall (@KTTunstall) November 14, 2013

I love dreams; the weird events and logic that seem perfectly normal at the time. I replied to Miss Tunstall's tweet, saying that I'd love to draw that. After I got a message of encouragement back I felt I had no choice.

30 Movies #5 - Fight Scene

I passed on some grander and more memorable cinema fights in favour of this scene from TMNT. This rooftop fight scene made the movie for me. I don't know that I'd have given it a second watch if it didn't have this scene in it. It also gave me a good excuse to draw the Turtles. Despite being from the 2007 movie I decided to draw Leo the way I've always drawn the Turtles. I prefer the classic look to some of the more recent styles. I think the original live action movie was the high water mark for me.

30 Movies #1 - Animated Movie

The Sketchgroup is back together! Some of us, are at least. We've decided to borrow our weekly topics from Jeff Victor's 30 Day Drawing Challenge - Movie Edition (due to work loads the group have decided against trying it as a 30 day challenge). The first topic was "animated movie" so I've chosen Princess Mononoke, one of my all time favourite animated features and just a through-and-through beautiful film.

Firefox

A bit of Halloween fan art for Mike Witner over at Pinkerton.

Hulk

I drew the Hulk for the sketchjam topic "monster". I like him because he's part Frankenstein, part Mr. Hyde. Two cool monsters for the price of one. When I was a kid I was a fan of the Bill Bixby Hulk series, but I never saw another screen adaptation that really satisfied until The Avengers. Marvel's The Incredible Hulk did do a good job with Bruce Banner and his struggle, but the rest let it down. Now, if the next Hulk movie can mix the tragedy of Banner's existence with the emotion of Edward Norton, while at the same time keeping the passive aggression of Mark Ruffalo and the look/sound/humour of the his Hulk, then, well, they can take my money now.

Hellboy Prophecy - Dreamt

This image is straight out of my dreams. I tried to draw it exactly as I saw it. I don't know what was going on, all I know is that all three of the characters represented Hellboy in some ways, and the whole thing was a prophecy of his demise.

Pinkerton

While sorting out what stuff to transfer to my new computer and what stuff to just bin, I came across this guest strip I did a while ago for Mike Witner's Pinkerton Park. I don't think I ever posted it on my blog before, and I'm still quite proud of it.

Yoshis, Fight!

This week's sketchjam theme was "fight". I was in a bit of a retro games mood the other day and thought "hey, there's lots of fights in computer games!" and since I so rarely do any kind of fan art I thought this would be a good opportunity. So this is inspired by one of my favourite games of all time, Yoshi's Island for the SNES. Yoshis are fun to draw. Except that yellow one, he came out looking a bit odd.

And here's a few scribbles I did in MS Paint that led up to the final. Post-it notes and MS Paint are the freest mediums for me when it comes to sketching ideas.

Six Pints of Bitter. And Quickly Please, the World's About to End

Happy Towel Day!

Fan Art

I've just realised that in the years I've run this blog, I've only got two posts tagged with "fan art". I so rarely draw other people's stuff now, I've always tried to focus on my own. But I probably should do more of it, it's a good way to learn.

Simpsons, The

Some 10-second scribbles. I'd really love to animate these characters if I were allowed to loosen them up from their model sheets. I love the early characters where Matt Groening's style (or at least some sense of cartooning) can be seen. None of the later characters are any fun, with their realistic hair styles and evenly-proportioned faces. They look so unrewarding to draw. Nothing abstract or stylistic about them. Celebrities playing themselves on the show now are the worst. They try to transform them into their simplistic style but without any caricature, so they're just unrecognisable without "Wow, it's _____ ______ from ______ __ ___ ______! What are you doing in Springfield?". Maybe they're afraid of offending their guest stars with any kind of exaggeration in their drawings? It wasn't always this bad.

Then, and now.

Victory?

Was looking back at an old (or dormant?) webcomic I like, Pet Professional, and felt a bit nostalgic. There's still fans posting on the forum! So I decided to do a bit of fan art.