Day five for sketching is favourite book characters. I couldn’t choose between two. The first is Eowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan who has an awesome horse called Windfola and disguises herself as a bloke (going by Durnhelm) to go to the battle of Pelennor fields outside Minas Tirith. Now I bet this all sounds a bit Tolkein-nerd but…
This whole 30 day thing is resulting in a lot of art I’m not especially happy with. I don’t think I’m patient enough for watercolour. I want to keep going before the undercoat has dried. However, it has given me ideas at least and I think I’m better than the day I started. Which is, you…
So the next two pictures on the 30 day challenge were “your favourite animal” and “your favourite place.” I skipped the latter and went direct to best friend, because place is going to be a watercolour and I need to source a bit more material. Excuses notwithstanding, I wasn’t entirely happy how my favourite animal –…
I skipped favourite animal – want to do that on the weekend instead because I’ve not yet settled on a medium. So went directly to number three: Favourite food. This was an easy decision. At the age of four, I clearly remember this conversation: Kate Mason: “What’s your favourite food.” Me: “Strawberries.” Kate Mason: “Ew, I don’t like…
A “30 day drawing challenge” turned up in my pinterest feed. I usually shun such things: Novelember, dry july (ergh), movember, 365 photos in a year, black-and-white challenge etc. However with this… well, why not. It’s clearly clickbait, and I just have to own the fact it worked. The first thing on the list is “yourself.”…
This is, I think, my fourth drawing of Spanna. Not entirely I’ve done her justice in any of them. Spanna wanted me to create a cartoon where she was “smart.” This, from a woman who speaks five languages and is a lawyer for rich people. I eventually decided I am giving up cartooning until I get better gear…
Giants invaded Perth. I drew my girlfriends as Jedi Knights. That’s about the summary of the week. This footage went to Perth Now on Friday. It’s cobbled together footage from my mates, linked together using imovie. Every day these Jobs devices amaze me more. Apparently, this has been viewed more than 230,000 times. Meanwhile, The Swede…
Are you a Jedi, or are you a Sith? I’m probably Sith. I’ve not got around to drawing that. I might get there. But Bommie and HWG are both Jedis. This project was to move away from my comfort zone of thick black outlines a-la Archer and comics and try no-outline drawing. Also it was fun.…
Economics, it turns out, doesn’t really come to me naturally. I have always found it amusing that this clip was entirely ad-libbed by the actor. Sadly, I am supposed to now understand what this actually is about. Can’t say I do. Whilst trying to study for economics on the law of diminishing marginal utility yada yada,…
Zeus and the Blonde Nomad 