So it's true there are a lot of blanks on this blog, but that's only because I have only just now hooked up my scanner at last. So I'm catching up, although most of these don't have dates, just think of them as the ones I missed.
The first sketch page is full of sketches I did while reading that lovely Chabon novel, "Gentlemen of the Road."
Zelikman on a horse...but I can't draw horses. Also I tend to draw people's forms first and then add clothing later but with this one I liked the form too much to cover it in clothing so I just outlined the clothing lightly in red.
Next we have Zelikman and Amaram, just cartoony.
At the bottom is my favorite scene from the book! Please ignore the weird looking hands (especially the far left's left hand, WTF is that?) In this scene, the two kids' (seen only in the last panel cause I'm lazy) dad is being smashed to death by an elephant. Zelikman slinks over to them (even though he doesn't really know them) and covers their eyes so they don't have to see their dad being killed by a raging pachyderm. I thought that was so adorable, I just couldn't resist drawing it. Plus I enjoyed drawing the expressions of revulsion while he watches the scene. Again, didn't feel like covering up the forms of the bodies, he wasn't naked in the book haha.
Sketch dump part two, just random doodles I did mostly during classes. We got a weird moonwalker cartoon. Some practice of hands, legs and an arm. Those legs are probably the best legs I've ever drawn, but still not great, and if I tried attaching them to a body or feet it would just be disaster. I enjoy drawing weird expressions, so the face is kind of a 'thinking about it really hard and not really pleased with the options' face. Actually when I draw faces I tend to associate them with sounds rather than real emotions. Like this face is a kind of sound you make when you take in breath through your teeth. The expressions Zelikman wore the bottom of the first page were associated with " ooooo" sounds. Finally there's the giraffe, all crosshatched and surreal.
THE CRANE WIFE
AH Jørgen Kieler, one of my historical heroes. Truly an inspirational figure, and a lovely Dane.
I LOVE HATCHING
Whoa, a sketch of the day in true spirit of sketch of the day: CRAP
For today I worked on a picture that as of yet has no color but will soon have lots of color.
So I started this yesterday technically, but finished it up today. It's a picture for someone on dA of characters she made up. The umbrella is really bad, and I think I would actually like to add some highlights later but for now I'm just kind of sick of working on it haha.
I'm getting back on track!
Sketch dump part two, just random doodles I did mostly during classes. We got a weird moonwalker cartoon. Some practice of hands, legs and an arm. Those legs are probably the best legs I've ever drawn, but still not great, and if I tried attaching them to a body or feet it would just be disaster. I enjoy drawing weird expressions, so the face is kind of a 'thinking about it really hard and not really pleased with the options' face. Actually when I draw faces I tend to associate them with sounds rather than real emotions. Like this face is a kind of sound you make when you take in breath through your teeth. The expressions Zelikman wore the bottom of the first page were associated with " ooooo" sounds. Finally there's the giraffe, all crosshatched and surreal.
Ok once again, I HAVE been doing my sketch-a-day, but I have also been way too lazy to hook up my scanner. Sometime this weekend I will hook it up and then flood this with backdated sketch-a-days.
