Bottersnikes and Gumbles

A long time ago I longed to work on a version of  the Bottersnikes and Gumbles story .
Then a few supanovas back I met some guys in sydney who were working on a series.
 ....and nothing.

Did a few pen scribbles the other night-(amongst the other scribbles)
looks like the bottersnike is a vindictive one- sitting on a jam jar of gumbles- with what could only be a discarded take away vindaloo container nearby.

Looks grim for those gumbles.

A Very Dalek Christmas

Idea for Dalek Christmas cards or a book while sitting at my table at Supanova

Splash

Love

Sketches while watching....

......watching Manga Studio tutorials.

Man the pen feel is so much better than photoshop- you can go from superthin/hairline to thick like a paintbrush can.(much thinner and far better than photoshop)

Photoshop you are so dropped- I'll finish the book I'm currently doing in it - but after that......
seeya.

Night doodlin

I need a real job- if anyone has one.

Kind of getting a revival of a desire to do animation....

I didn't plan or think about that penguin/duck one I posted - I just did it- didn't really think about timing- so some of the pauses are short/wrong/wrong beat  etc.

Still there's a a lot of enjoyment and immediacy about it....
even if the light flickers /things done wrong etc ( a lot of craft to learn with the stop motion I guess.)
Kind of reminds me of the stuff I did as a kid  trying to do animation.

Struggling with the Little Bad Wolf book- at least struggling to achieve the dream suggested by my roughs.
Must not get hung up on the roughs.
Must stay loose with the backgrounds while I'm clarifying them.



Anyway- some doodles- 25 minutes of noodling.....

Yes a troll is a person in your neighbourhood, in your neighbourhood

.......In your neighbourhood

Some of the idle ideas for Little Bad Wolf's neighbours.
Little bad wolf lives in a suburb where every house is a microcosm of some fairytale setting- but with some modernity thrown in.

Normally my initial sketchbook ideas are completely unreadable....these moderately so.
That's ok  -they're in a blog that's largely unread- so nature keeps its balance.

Doodle-age

And what does death need time for?

"Death needs time for what it kills to grow in- for Ah pooks sweet sake"

Finished round of Little Bad Wolf roughs

YaY!

dinosaur scribble

oaf scribble

horned guy scribble

dragon scribble2

Lach scribble #2

Lach scribble #1