Mish-mash

Fabriano With Dots I

Pen sketches done in a cheap sketchbook with dotted pages...

Ink Scratch

Ink Pages

I started scanning my pocket sketchbook yesterday, so I'll be posting random pages in between other stuff.

Sketch Week 1:7

Sundays sketch is horribly bland,

But it's hard to ink with wine close at hand.

Sketch Week 1:5

Fridays sketch is in biro pen...

Tomes

A quick ink sketch showing my love of musty old books.

Tallow

This post continues on from my last entry, but I have become so frustrated with my internet connection (it took me over an hour to get a sweet connection spot to upload a few kb's of picture content) that I'll just try and get this up and expand on it later. :(

Comfort Zones Excluded

Another double page of environment doodles (see previous post). I really need to work on my quick figurative drawing as this post clearly shows. To be honest, I don't think I am actually as bad at quick figurative sketches as this sketchbook page would have you believe. Yes, I am rather horrible at it in general (something I have been working on by using the 30 second timer feature over at Pose Maniacs) but this new ink medium is unforgiving when it comes to human poses done on the fly and certainly hilights my shortcomings in this department. There's nothing like the panic factor to bring you down to earth and point out your weaknesses.

I like this new medium. :)

Ink Scratch

I've been enjoying a relapse in interests lately and have gone back to watching certain Anime films and reading certain Manga volumes I originally devoured (many times over) some years back. It's a style of design and illustration that is both infuriating (see main stream crap) and exhilarating (localised gems) but, unfortunately not in equal measures.

I've been meaning to play with the concept of a continuous setting for quite a while now, and was originally going to pursue this idea via a series of speedpaints and sketches, but my recent downtime activities have made me pause over the notion of the comicbook format – something rather alien to my way of working. I decided to try my hand at world creation using a comic book blueprint. Well, not so much “world creation” as... err... pocket environment?

Whatever comes of this new venture (sketches, speedpaints etc...) will be posted here along with my usual scribbles. The working title of the project is "Garra Ruffa", so make what you will from that.

Crows V

One crow sorrow,

Two crows joy,

Three for a girl,

Four for a boy,

Five for rich,

Six for poor,

Seven for a witch,

I can say no more.

That's me done, but here are a few different variations...

One crow sorrow,

Two crows mirth,

three, a wedding,

four, a birth,

five brings silver,

six takes wealth,

seven crows a secret,

More I can nae tell.

One for sorrow, two for mirth,

Three for a wedding, four for a birth,

Five for silver, six for gold,

Seven for a secret not to be told.

Eight for heaven, nine for hell,

And ten for the devil's own sel'.

Crows IV

What a horribly busy week. I have had no time to sketch - or even sleep that much. *sigh* Anyway, before I go and enjoy some afternoon snoozing, here's the latest crow count. One more to go.

Crows III

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Crows II

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Crows

There are many variations on the rhyme for counting crows. Here's one version...