Tag: Sketch Machine

Not based on any topic. Just a product of free-drawing (though I must admit that at the stick figure stage it was a warm-up for a Kong Vs Gojira sketch that might have ended up under Kaiju Monster Apocalypse — I still want to do that one).

I used the fat brush pen for most of it because I have little experience with that. It’s quite hard to control on this paper, but the style works for something rough like this. Smaller details like much of the textural linework on dracunerd were done with the small brush pen, and it adds a a nice lino/woodcut look to it, I think.

And yes, the flower was added in as an afterthought after all the inking was done.

(This is, of course, shamelessly ripped off from that issue of NEXTWAVE with the widdle fuzzy bears of death)

Sketched up Garvan the Lapine, a character Dan is writing about this month. I didn’t do any pre-sketches — this exercise is meant to be done ‘cold’ — so it’s ended up looking hideous. Blaaaaarh, still can’t handle line weights. Oh well, practice practice.

PS I need more fuel. Have a couple of ideas for the other two options Spyder gave me, but those will run out soon. Comment away, and let your imagination run wild.

Between work (tenth revision on a poster in as many days, each one more mind-numbingly wronger than the last), nanowrimo (slow and steady, but winning still undecided, and I’m just going to continue this bastard until it’s done) and life in general, I’m really fatigued. I need something to do (something frivolous).

Which is where you come in. I’ve been mulling a “daily sketch” style feature on the blog for a while now but like most things a combination of laziness and abject terror have let it go unfulfilled. This changes now. What I would like is for anyone to suggest something for me to draw. Go wild. Go crazy. It can be anything. If you can fit it in a comment (and, as far as I can tell, you can have loooong comments here), I will interpret it in pen and ink to the best of my ability and put it up the next day, when you can go crazy again and suggest something more harebrained.

If multiple suggestions are made, I’ll chose one that catches my fancy and keep the others for later. Go on, get cracking. And while you’re at it, drop by Spyder’s and give her some luff.