Pencil Lines

Right. I have really been neglecting this place, and for that I apologize. I actually have been sketching a lot more the last few weeks than I have the last few months, so I have a lot to share! I haven’t shared it yet because my scanner was buried under a bunch of stuff and I was too lazy to excavate it. Forgive me!

All right, let’s get started. #1 on our list: Crazy Star Trek fanart and other randomness!

All right! Shake it, Riker! *cough* I think some explanations are in order… my friends and I have been watching a lot of Star Trek: TNG lately. And I mean a lot. And obviously one of my friends found the links to the Jandrew Edits… and now I have a couple more life-long scars. Anyway! That’s where the disapproving Klingon comes from. And the scary “dancing” Riker. Yup. I swear. The rest? I have no clue. Hey, let’s have a close-up of the Klingon dude!

There, that’s better. This guy was drawn from memory; Here’s a picture of the actual disapproving Klingon.*shiver*

Okay, moving on! #2, more Star Trek crap:

That there is a portrait of Captain Heather of the U.S.S. Enterprise. She’s probably staring critically at young Ensign Crusher right now and thinking: “I’m gonna kill that kid. I’m gonna kill him.” Ah, adolescent fan-fiction… We also have a pygmy jerboa, and a beet being chased by a potato peeler, suggested by Dennis. I love Dennis.

#3! A couple girls.

I’ve been inspired by some awesome cartoony artists such as Kt Shy and feeling woefully incompetent at the whole fashionable cartoony women thing.  Not getting too far, but hey, practice.

# 4! Cartoony Portraits!

Dennis is such a unique looking person. So here I am attempting to make him look less unique through cartoons. A few different attempts, still not there; man, I wish I had awesome rad cartoon skillz. Like Aido. *sigh* There are also attempts at cartooning myself, but again, need practice.

Right! Next, #5 and #6, are Matrix-y!

Right! So, a looooong time ago I drew myself as a Matrix character. After showing this to Dennis recently we began talking about what he might look like if he existed in the Matrix; and then I visited friends and it’s spread to them too. Here we have Dennis and d7; both of which are unfinished. I’m more satisfied with Dennis’ than d7’s; I’ll probably redo his at some point. Either way, you other guys need to send me ideas for your Matrix versions; I’m looking at you, Darthmaus and Dabrota! Oh, and can you brainstorm Ben’s too? I’ll have to ask some other friends as well…

Right. Now, here’s where it gets good! #7: Six-headed Giraffe Hydra!!

This is another Dennis-ism. While hanging out with friends (and after drawing the Matrix!d7) I asked for some silly suggestions for a drawing and Dennis suggested a “six-headed hydra giraffe.” Here we go. I love silly suggestions.

Talking about silly; are you ready for this? Here we go! The pièce de résistance! #8: Hitler. On rollerskates. Being chased by a rhinoceros.

I freaking love you, Dennis. You guys have no idea how much fun I had drawing this. I think the proudest moment of my life was finishing this sketch.

Right. That was so liberating. Now I’m going to bugger off and go play some Sims 3; or watch some Star Trek: TNG. Or draw som’more. Hot damn, I love my life.

It’s my sister’s birthday soon. I bought her a scarf I’ve been meaning to mail out to her, but didn’t think that was enough of a present, so I pulled out my stash of Super Sculpy and got to work on a little present for her.

I need a lot of work with sculpting, hehe! I took a ceramics class in grade nine of highschool and loved it, but haven’t done any since; well, except for this little guy who I sculpted earlier this year.

I figure it would be easier if I had a proper space to use to sculpt (right now I’ve been doing it on my bed on top of a piece of cardboard), if I actually used tinfoil and armatures (haven’t tried that yet!), and if I had the proper tools (I used an old 3H pencil to detail this one, since I had nothing else pointy enough to use). Tools are expensive though, and I don’t really have the time (or, like I said, the space!) to give sculpting a real go.

Instead, I just have time for sculpting little things like this:

Sorry for any poor quality, I’m experimenting with The Gimp on my laptop. Still not that proficient. =)

Anyway, it went through a couple permutations. I started it thinking I’d just make something extremely small and simple, something more lego-esque, made out of simple shapes. But the more I fooled around the more detailed it got until it was too big to support itself on its own legs and had to be lying down instead. That’s when I decided to make it cute and sleeping. I don’t know, maybe my sister will use it as a paper weight!

I think it turned out really cute, despite the dirtiness of the clay by the end of everything (thanks to that freaking pencil I used to detail, especially around the face). I wish I had some kind of paint, any kind, to cover it up, but all I have are watercolours, and somehow I doubt those will work.

I hope it actually looks like the pony is sleeping and not, you know, dead. It was a bit of a fear as I was sculpting it, and only half way through it did look a little morbid.

Right, just a quick update. I have some sketches lying around, I just haven’t gotten around to scanning them. Soon!