This category is reserved for artwork that is yet unfinished. Usually for artwork I expect to be working on again soon.
What a super busy day. Just got home from watching the hockey game and it’s already 10:40pm. Going to be a really quick post as I spent an hour (during the intermissions between periods) inking the fire behind the character I drew yesterday. Not a very productive day really. However, I like how he’s looking. Besides that a lot of the color in the photo was lost because it’s so late and I only have the lights in my apartment to illuminate the paper. Tomorrow should be better!
Well this drawing is turning out pretty awesome. It took me awhile to come up with any ideas today, and I’m pretty happy with what I have so far. Bats! I’ll probably add more smaller bats in the distance to give a bit more dimension. And I obviously have to color in the moon at some point. I’ll have to use Google to find some good images of a nice page yellow moon when I decide to do that.
Pretty lazy day today. Recovering from all the food I had over Thanksgiving weekend. Still eating leftovers! Though I’m cooking dinner for my cousin and I tonight. He’s coming by for the Maple Leafs game. Should be fun.
That’s all for today. If anyone has any tips on Halloween inspired drawings, please post them in the comments. I’m just looking for ideas. Any ideas are appreciated, even if I end up going in a different direction with them. They still help me figure out what to draw in th end. Thanks!
Super duper quick update today as it’s Thanksgiving and I’m just on my way out. So, here’s a weird eye guy! Just got him started and I’ll work more on it tomorrow. See ya! *runs out the door*
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.
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?
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?
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.
