8: Scribbly Backlog

Why the hell NOT post this today? This is non-Artslam stuff I've completed in the past month or so.

I was drawing a guy's coat and he moved. The usual thing happened to people who move: He became a giraffe.

I'm exceedingly fond of this lined paper guy I sketched right before going to bed one day. Perhaps I'll paint him soon.

A half-angel, half-man concept. I think he glows and stalks around rolling hills at night, staring at intruders unblinking until they lose their minds.

Last month's ACEO trade. I used mostly india ink and watercolor here, and no white gel pen. Gotta stop relying on those so much! But oh man, I need some masking fluid.

Some icons for people.

I was livestreaming and my audience suggested a giant anteater. Who could refuse? Here's a WIP, as I had to quit streaming mid-way. I tried a new coloring process...might try it again sometime. Corel Painter 10

Had the good fortune to visit the Animal Kingdom in Florida during a family vacation. I honest-to-God wish that the place was a full-out ZOO, but then no one would go and they'd close due to lack of funding. Pity, because it's a fantastic place for the animals and has a great climate for the more tropical species. It was hot and I was sweating everywhere/dropping my pen constantly, so this is all you're gonna get. xD That hippo was darling!

All righty. Gotta go to work and then a friend and I are going to the Nelson Atkin Museum of Art! Hot diggity for free admission. 8]

4: Centaurs and Such

Look, I've lied already; there's no centaurs here, just cardinals being mean to a sparrow. This is the sixth part of my sparrow series for color concept, the goal this time being to take an analogous color scheme and 'break it' with a compliment (red, in this case). I'd upload the seventh part, but it's embarrassingly ugly. I hope you understand. That aside, I feel that this is one of my most successful pieces to date. Working on it felt good, and it was fun. I'm not sure if that feeling comes from the massive amount of experimentation involved, the amount of planning I did beforehand, or if it was just one of those things...The media used here were gesso, watercolors, india ink, micron ink, colored pencil, and gel pen, and the size is 6x9" like the others in the series.

I'm all about the birds lately, I guess! This was for an art card trade on Deviantart. A lammergeier-caracal character. No quips from me!

Below is me learning how to draw horses. The horse-bodies are mostly photo referenced (which I can thank my friend Katie Langford for), and the human torsos are not. The hands are so appallingly bad in all of these, I NEED to apologize. This will not happen again. Also, the levels of seriousness between each picture fluctuates greatly.