This guy has robot arms; just trying to get down a vague costume idea basically. Maybe his name is Trundle.
There is a correlate of NaNoWriMo wherein participants make one character every day through November; maybe this is that, or maybe I will give up on it within a week. I have drawn a second one but it is not colored yet.
WHATEVER at least my thousands-of-pages-long comic book will get finished.
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#drawing #30 charactersStarted working on a big drawing to be a new convention banner and a print and some other things. I am taking a whole lot of process pictures and I’ll keep you updated…
These are a few of the thumbnails; the second one is the tightest I got it before starting the drawing.
I am reading a book called Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh, and that is what this drawing pertains to. I’m really interested in books about contact with space aliens recently, but I’ve never found any of them satisfactorily weird. Foreigner deals with these aliens called atevi who are mostly humanish but not completely, and the difficulties a displaced population of humans has in interacting with them. Have really enjoyed it, and there’s some interesting ideas, but Cherryh overexplains everything.
I’m going to try to read more, and to draw something from every book I read. I have trouble seeing things in my head without drawing them.
It is Gandalf can you dig it. My tiny contribution to the huge number of images of this hugely iconic character; the archetypal Aged Magic Person. I think he should look much more like a homeless person than popular interpretations usually show him. I really enjoy drawing these characters; eventually I would like to draw Every Single One.
Updating Order of Tales in an hour or so of this posting, here.
Twelve of those creepy writhing creatures I have been drawing are now available in a little digital book that you can have for one dollar or more. I hope you like them!
That thing I’ve been doing preliminary work on for two years; I am finally drawing it now. This is a tiny preview of it, and I am proud of the fact I have let little to nothing else slip about it yet.
I would love it if you’d read Vattu if you hadn’t; we’re at kind of a turning point so now might be a good spot to pick it up.
Tying it together. Inks are done now; the whole drawing is about 20 by 30 inches. Tried to push the linework in the foreground to make it bolder and more foreground-ish, and I think it reads the way I want it to.
I looked real hard for a large-format flat scanner in NYC and can’t find one that will cost me less than $100 to have this scanned, so I’m going to scan it in several parts and stitch together myself. Colors are the next big step! I have some ideas but might do some quick mockups to see what looks right.
small drawing very close
Trying to do more automatic drawing here and there. A little too overwhelmed lately to do much extracurricular (non-Vattu) work, but there is stuff to be worked on in the distance…
Finally finished this drawing! See it larger. It’s Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, a central character of China Miéville’s novel Perdido Street Station. I highly recommend the book, it is fantastic in every sense of the word! I think I’ve been talking about it incessantly and for that I apologize. I’ll move on to another of his books very soon… The Scar has been recommended to me a few times.
PSS is a very visual book, and one that deals at length with some pretty outrageous creatures and inventions. After several false starts, I decided to draw something that focused more on the feel of the book than on any representation of any of those visual elements specifically. I almost feel that rendering the Slake Moths, or Mr. Motley, or the constructs would put too fine a point on them, and spoil the strange, psychedelic nature of them– for myself and for those of you who haven’t read the book yet!
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