Hi! For once, this is an entry without any pictures in it - though one of those will be along within the next few days.
This is just to say I've started a second blog - which has nothing to do with art. It's got to do with baking. Because everyone has to have a hobby, right?.
In other, slightly more relevant news; 16/24 pages of Fathoms are inked (minus spotting the blacks). Serious progress is being made!
The map of a wild imagination - in sketches, WIPs and rambles
Monday, 28 November 2011
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Ink warm-ups
I'm currently working on Fathoms pt. 2 - the sketches are all finished, so I'm inking them now - but since I haven't inked anything seriously for months, I've decided to do these ink warm-ups before I start every day, just to get into the flow of things.
Some of them have turned out pretty nice, others unremarkable. But still - it's good practise.
Some of them have turned out pretty nice, others unremarkable. But still - it's good practise.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Mini-sketchdump
For reasons of NaNoWriMo, there hasn't been a whole lot of art done these last few weeks. But I'm nearly finished (35352 words!), so hopefully I'll be back with a vengeance.
In the meantime, sketches:
Nila and Blackbird (who can't seem to decide which way that white part of her hair is going - it changes from picture to picture).
Blackbird again, this time to test out Paint Tool Sai's lineart tools. They're pretty neat.
Habashiri Kenji, bit-part character in the mobster-universe.
In the meantime, sketches:
Nila and Blackbird (who can't seem to decide which way that white part of her hair is going - it changes from picture to picture).
Blackbird again, this time to test out Paint Tool Sai's lineart tools. They're pretty neat.
Habashiri Kenji, bit-part character in the mobster-universe.
Monday, 31 October 2011
Watercolour
I was watching the BBC's Human Planet, because it's such a fascinating and inspiring show, and saw these people in India who make bridges out of the roots of living trees.
This is in no way a fair representation of what those beautiful things look like (I'm not happy at all with it, actually), but it was a watercolour sketch I thought was worth posting.
This is in no way a fair representation of what those beautiful things look like (I'm not happy at all with it, actually), but it was a watercolour sketch I thought was worth posting.
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
NaNoWriMo 2011 - mood/concept sketches
This year for NaNoWriMo, I'm rewriting my plot from 2009, thus making 2011 the year of It's Raining In Chicago Redux.
To get in the mood and plan a bit (and to avoid panicking and deciding on the spot to write silly Final Fantasy IX-fanfiction instead), I'm doing a couple of sketches.
To get in the mood and plan a bit (and to avoid panicking and deciding on the spot to write silly Final Fantasy IX-fanfiction instead), I'm doing a couple of sketches.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Abarat-fanart+sketchdump
I've recently read Abarat, and it's two sequels Days of Magic, Nights of War and Absolute Midnight, and got into the fanart-y mood.
First up, the girl from Marapozsa Street, "A woman was studying at an upper window with her hair like a thicket filled with little coloured birds."
Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, whose nightmares escape from his brain and swim around his collar.
Leeman Vol, the Insect Man, whose entire person is home to a multitude of insects. "Sometimes they bit him, in the midst of their terrritorial wars, and often they burrowed into his skin to lay their eggs."
Malingo the Geshrat
Also, two sketched - I need to practise my inking skills; they've fallen into disuse lately.
First up, the girl from Marapozsa Street, "A woman was studying at an upper window with her hair like a thicket filled with little coloured birds."
Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, whose nightmares escape from his brain and swim around his collar.
Leeman Vol, the Insect Man, whose entire person is home to a multitude of insects. "Sometimes they bit him, in the midst of their terrritorial wars, and often they burrowed into his skin to lay their eggs."
Malingo the Geshrat
Also, two sketched - I need to practise my inking skills; they've fallen into disuse lately.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Daily sketchbook dump Sept. 23 - 26
Lagging a bit behind on the daily sketches, what with Fathoms and 24 Hour Comic Day.
Speaking of 24 Hour Comics, most of today's post is focused on it. Mostly concept-sketches of the main character, and a bit of planning of title typography, though I'm not sure I'm keeping that idea, or running with another one.
And then there's some assorted sketches of golems and Moonfaces and a grouchy-looking man with a huge fuck-off sword. 'Cause sometimes, you just need to draw grouchy men with huge fuck-off swords.
I don't know why, but the thought of Auga playing cat's cradle amuses me. He'd be so dead serious about it.
Speaking of 24 Hour Comics, most of today's post is focused on it. Mostly concept-sketches of the main character, and a bit of planning of title typography, though I'm not sure I'm keeping that idea, or running with another one.
And then there's some assorted sketches of golems and Moonfaces and a grouchy-looking man with a huge fuck-off sword. 'Cause sometimes, you just need to draw grouchy men with huge fuck-off swords.
I don't know why, but the thought of Auga playing cat's cradle amuses me. He'd be so dead serious about it.
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