Evan Dahm — Some dudes

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Some dudes

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TCAF made me get excited about comics, and it made me start thinking about a little all-ages project that I want to work on. And then I went to the Beguiling while we were in Toronto and I looked at this gorgeous French book that was drawn in slick clear-line with bright colors, and I drew this when I got home.

The blue guy is maybe named Dip-Dap. The robot guy doesn’t talk in words. The ladybug-person is supposed to be a lady; I am not sure about her design yet. Lately I’m really attracted to slick, limited, colorful designs, like in Adventure Time, Pokémon, etc.

Currently drawing the end of the next short story and the start of book 2 of Vattu; super excited to be working on this stuff…

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Perdido Street Station

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Pokemon white

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If you do not care about Pokemon, I am sorry for drawing so many Pokemon. Drawings of other things will happen soon.

I drew this after starting Pokemon White and it’s been sitting on the computer waiting to be colored since then. I like naming them dumb stuff. I’m pretty far in the game at this point and very impressed by it!! I love how weird so many of the designs are, and the storytelling in this one is much smoother and more interesting than any of the older games for sure.

Also I’ve recently put all of my worldbuilding-related posts up at Making Places. I’ll be using that blog for that kind of writing in future, and am accepting submissions of relevant material. I’d like to keep this blog more art-focused than it has been in recent months.

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Finally finally. I’ve been too busy working on real stuff to do much freetime drawing.

This is the Balrog of Moria, and that under it is the Bridge of Khazad Dum. Very different from the previous drawings I think. As always, I’m trying to go just by the description of the text, but this one was probably colored quite a bit by the Balrog’s design in the Peter Jackson movies, which I think is pretty excellent. The book describes a large, man-shaped creature, with a ‘mane of fire,’ and what seems to be a kind of fluid, changing form of fire and shadow. The text mentions 'wings;’ but I think does so metaphorically (“…the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings.”), and also I feel wings would clutter up the image and sort of dilute the design of the thing.

Next is the Orc Chieftain that leads an attack on the Fellowship in Moria (before the Balrog bit, actually), whenever I can get around to it. You can see all previous LOTR drawings in one place by tag, here.

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