not finished- abandoned

Yeah so thats another picasso kinda quote.
Up top is another of those 15 minute thingy's. The others are from a life drawing session. The girl is the elven strumpet/animation student some of you might remember from a while back. I gave her face an extreme makeover while i was at it.I gave her surroundings an extreme makeover too- so now she's sort of Titania elven strumpet waking up with her guard fairies on the case
Also I thought I'd noted down enough to remember how to shade them- but obviously I didn't.
Hopefully some more soon, and better.

15 mins of gothic

still waiting

waiting

for 12 minutes while i dabbled this

40 mins of spiky silliness

ok i'll stop with the spikes-

Seemed a good idea at the time

If time taken is proportional to good ideaness, then you get what you deserve in a 30 minute sketcheroo. Take this 30 minute fashion victim for example, and remember- practice makes pervert.

45 min girly sketcheroo

hmmmm this drawing is better than the ones above

Ugly is easy

15 minutes and presto- an ugly spiky monster.
Still its better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick, even if the drawing isn't as tight as a nun's nasty.
I love australian turn of phrases.
But again hunter,- if you're out there, -its got spikes so its gotta be good.

shiny shiny

the old 15 minute sketcheroo,
this ws originally just a girly with a funky horn helmet, fiv eminute later it was a protest against people easily impressed by shiny(highly rendered) things

A halfway coloured scribble and some life drawings. Not sure whether to go cartoony (and put linework back over it once I clean it up) or make it completely painted. But then I don't want to spend too much time on what was originally a 5 min scribble. Mental note to turn dog-monster's right hind leg out.not sure what to do about horndudes legs-or whether they'd be blocked out by dogmonster.
The life drawings are of 'a model called Carmen-out of curiousity I put them all into a file in photoshop to see if they all lined up- considering they are 3 view of roughly the same pose- and they kind of do. So either I am consistently wrong or consistently right. I didn't shade them- which is bad, but they are sort of nice even still.
Maybe I need to buy painter.

Two more life drawings. Theres another but I haven't stitched it together yet(drawings are a3 sized on a2). Probably about 35 minutes each- I got there late and they do a lot of talking in between poses there.Why did I change him into the horned god and a minotaur- because he had long hair and I couldn't see his face through it - so I figured might as well have fun. On the minotaur version I pumped up his arms and shoulders a fair bit from what was actually there to try and accomodate the big head. Yes his axe is bent and stuff....sheesh.
Apparently I missed the sculptors society halloween bash, and their nude go-go girls (in boots).
Well that's the story of my career right there folks- at least thats the way day job work would like it to be for me.
Fortunately they are wrong, (not yet but soon).

"These are a few of my favourite things..."

....girlies on dino's without any clothin
monsters with spiky bits, big teeth and wings
these are a few ofmy favourite things

in progress
but about time there was another dinosaur
- might put a costume on the girl...

might....

fun packed 20 mins

Theres a bit of a poem called 'voyage to cythera' i like- in it theres a bit about a hanged body with this creature prowling around the base. Not brilliant but 20 minutes,
nice and cheery too.
i should add that although i liked the poem, i myself am not riddled with disease- especially that sort.

The post with no name....

Things are a bit darker this week.
The guy with gun looks a bit like the guy sitting at the campfire in 'twas brillig- oh well.
Still he represents a 'big shot' waiting for his 'big shot' to happen- as for the monsters- well why not?
Which reminds me for a lost world there hasn't been any dinosaurs for a few months so i'll fix that soon.
I quite like the girly with the halberd thing,- its a bit unfinished mainly because I like it and it gets nerve wracking as i work on it incase i mess it up which i'm prone to do- after all it only takes a little slip on her nose or one eye and the whole thing is trashed.
The devil thing behind her is filling the space mainly- next round of drawings i'll actually'design' things like creatures and costumes and then draw them- instead of dressing up nudey people as i often do when just straight ahead drawing.
The monster below her is a sort of grab bag of lach cliches.
Below that is another harpy- the trouble with winged things is to get them in any sort of full stretch pose i need a big page. I liked the spines and the twisty neck. Hunter if hes out there will know spines and spikes are a necessity,

Recreational drawing sketchbook stylee

The moral here is fix things up before you polish em up.

15mins more

15mins

Lastly

And another thing.... progresswise

Further progress of the work in progress

A story of sorts,- the framing/composition of the images isn't crash hot in cases-I plan to redraw them in portrait orientation, ink them and colour them so they are nicey nicey.
Still there are some nice lines there I thought, and it was done under duress- I have been busy with work(the radium stuff) and our son has been in hospital for a week(and so were we taking care of him).
Progress ahoy.

One Idea for Illustrators Australia 9x5's

Work in progress.

I seriously need to get my lightbox fixed.
The smart thing to do would be to take the charming thumnails- blow them up trace them off and clean them up. The not smart thing is to do what I did- some things got better other things got worse. More to come.