Monthly Archives: October 2014

Pale Yellow: Day 63

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Freak

Happy Friday, everyone. Nothing too fancy for today’s drawing as I was away from my home when I did this one. This image will probably end up more cartoony than creepy as that’s what tends to happen with my stuff. That’s what I’m assuming anyways. I’m not sure if I’m going to do any more pen on this one though. I want to try something different so I’m going to try and fill the rest in with grey’s and blacks and the eyes are probably going to be a pale yellow. So not very colorful! I might change my mind though when tomorrow comes.

I’ve been chatting a lot with my friends and family about horror style movies. A lot of the conversations have been about what we grew up with, and what their kids are growing up with now. I remember growing up watching things like Nightmare on Elmstreet and Child’s Play. I was only like 7 or 8 maybe when I watched Child’s Play. I loved that movie, for some reason. I grew up later avoiding scary doll movies though. So not sure what happened there.

So, not just sticking with a horror theme, what movies did you grow up with? Is there just one that sticks in your memory? Maybe something you haven’t seen since, or ended up hating later on in life maybe. Steven King’s Maximum Overdrive and the aforementioned Child’s Play are a couple of mine.

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Dat Tentacle: Day 62

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Tentacle!

I totally categorized this image under “character”. Anyways, good evening! I drew a tentacle! Welcome to the first of (hopefully) many creepy Halloween-esque drawings. Sounded like a fun idea, so I’m going for it. Hmmm… tentacles are creepy right? Well, just think of that one scene from the movie “The Mist”.

I really like how this turned out. I’m noticing a few things (as usual) that are bugging me that I could go back and change, but I’ll leave it. It’s done. I think my absolutely favorite part about this drawing is the color. The blue on pink, in my opinion, looks fantastic.

So, I’ll throw out an easy question today. What’s your favorite color? Is there any reason it’s your favorite? Even though I didn’t use any in this picture, green is definitely my favorite color. I wonder, does everyone have a favorite color? It’s something my nieces have always asked me. You pick one as a kid, and stick with it forever. Right?

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Musical Creation: Day 61

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Plaid 2

I’m hesitating on calling this image complete. I still think it need something special. Not sure what yet though, but I have a few ideas that I might try tomorrow. Or I’ll leave it how it is and move on to something else. It’s past due time I start on some creepy Halloween themed drawings.

It’s going to be a brief update today. However, I do have an interesting thing to discuss, for anyone interested in replying in the comments. When I do my daily drawing, I’m always listening to some form of music. Audio stimulation seems to really drive what I end up creating. It’s been like that for a few years or so now. When I was a kid I would do most of my drawing in school. During class, of course. I’d often get in trouble because I would draw while the teachers talked. There was no music. I would drown everything out and just doodle. Music (usually without vocals as I sometimes find them distracting) is what helps me to create. So, what kind of music helps you to focus? Or do whatever it is you do best?

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Throwing Color Around: Day 60

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Plaid

I’m still having a blast with all this abstract stuff. This style is always a lot of fun as the image changes more than a few times as you draw. You start trying out different ideas and color schemes as you’re drawing. I plan to fill this book entirely with these types of images. It will hopefully turn out pretty great.

Growing up I hardly used any color with my drawings. About 95% of the time it was strictly pencil or pen. Combined with a lot of shading. Now, it’s really refreshing to be able to just throw color around however I want. It’s like with today’s picture, it’s really simple right now as I’ve only spent a couple hours with it, but once I get shading and adding some details, I’m sure it’ll look quite different. Not sure where I’m going with it yet though.

I really should get into Halloween mode sooner than later. It’s coming up fast. I’d like to draw some of my classic creatures that I used to draw all the time. You know, monsters and aliens. So I’ll have to start that soon.

I’ve been discussing a movie marathon with a couple friends of mine. Maybe doing it right on Halloween if people aren’t too busy. Probably a few classic horror movies with some funny Halloween movies thrown in there. We’ll see what we decide on.

My question for today is definitely Halloween themed. Out of the classic scary movies, which one is your favorite? Any movie with a thriller or horror theme is fine. Or even a proper Halloween theme. You know, stuff like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Nightmare Before Christmas (Yup. I would include that for sure), Aliens, and The Exorcist. Stuff like that. For me it’s definitely Beetlejuice. I was never a horror fan growing up. Watched a lot of them, but never really got much out of it. Beetlejuice however, stuck with me. I even had a whole bunch of action figures. So what’s your favorite?

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Space Balls: Day 59

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Space Window Complete

I present to you a bunch of random planets mashed together. Viewed through a window of some sort looking out into space. Even though I know I could of spent another day tweaking a few things and adding detail, I think it looks pretty great. I’m a little afraid of adding anything more to it as I could so easily mess it up. So I’m finished with this piece. On to something new tomorrow!

As I almost always say, it looks way better on paper than it does in this photograph. My cousin gave me the idea of photo copying my drawings to get a higher quality image, but I’m not sure if I’d have to go find a copier, and what I would exactly do with it to get the digital image. Not a huge deal really. Later today I might try taking a better photo right outside to see if there’s a significant quality bump.

So, time for a question. Space related again. With Pluto being back in the news again, let’s talk about that. Should Pluto be a planet again? It’s still smaller than a bunch of the moons in our solar system. So in my opinion it definitely shouldn’t be classified as a proper planet. Drawf planet, sure. Not that I’m an expert or anything. Some people just grew up with Pluto as a proper planet and want it to stay that way. Do you care? Planet? Not a planet? I don’t care that much, but I don’t think it fits into what a planet is really. It’s just a tiny ball of ice. However it does have the same orbit around our star as the rest of our planets…

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Our Place Within the Cosmos: Day 58

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Space Window Updated

The lighting was really terrible today, so the image quality isn’t the greatest. Hopefully tomorrow is much better while I finish this picture up. It’s turning out to be an excellent space scene! Still have to work on the planets some more, and I have to figure out what I’m doing with the dust cloud in the back.

I wasn’t sure what this picture was going to end up as when I started, as I was just drawing a bunch of random circles. Usually that’s how I do most of my drawings. I draw some shapes, and see if any images show up naturally in my imagination as I go along.

You know, I really do have a million things I could potentially talk about here, but since I’m always posting these for myself to look back on when I’m done, I don’t even bother. However, other people read this. And other people will read this in the future. So I should try harder to come up with something semi-interesting to talk about in future posts.

So, any ideas? Actually, I’ll probably look over what I drew for the day, and see if it relates to anything. For example, today’s image is a space scene. I have a million things I could bring up about space. For today’s post, I’m going to ask a question to anyone willing to reply in the comments. Whether you care about outer space or not, what is the thing that you find most interesting? For me, it’s perhaps our place within the cosmos. How unimaginably massive it all is, and how insignificant we are individually. Rather than how important we are as “Earthlings” as, so far as we know, the only intelligent beings that can appreciate the beauty of all that’s out there.

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Conspiracy Theories: Day 57

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Space Window

Just a really quick update today. I have some company over today. I started a pretty cool drawing. I’m going to definitely finish this tomorrow, as I really like where it’s going!

I’ve been hanging out at home today as it was quite rainy and miserable outside for most of the afternoon. Playing a few videogames and watching some TV episodes of various shows. Having some deep conspiracy theories with a buddy. Which is what we normally do when we hang out.

I’m not really sure if these circles are planets, but it definitely does look like a window into space! So I’m going with that. Maybe I’ll add some rings or something, if possible, tomorrow.

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