Pencil Lines

Well, it’s been nearly a month since my last post, I should have something to show you. Let’s see what I can find…

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Last night I watched “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and giggled up a storm. The hotness that is Cary Elwes also prompted me, for some strange, terrifying reason, to attempt to draw my own dashing Robin Hood.

Later on in the night I started looking up corsets on Wikipedia, which lead to hours of fascinated clicking through a couple centuries of historical fashion. SO RAD.

Anyway, here are the sketches I came up with last night.w00t! Look at that dashing character… with his goatee and his tights. Mraow.

I had SOMUCHFUN with the little fashion sketches. Bwahahaha!! Women used to dress so silly… yet for some reason it’s still so compelling.

I love my little black permanent marker pens. Whee!

That’s all for me right now… off to do some homework. *sigh*

Today I have been doing a lot of looking at art. Well, that is, looking at art after having my mum come over and do my laundry for me and cook me lunch and make me tea before scurrying away again. But hey, what else could I do after all that but look at art?

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Right, so, my life turned a little upside down for a moment there. I got pretty sick for about a week, and at the exact same time my room flooded and I was forced to stay with a friend for a while. =) But thankfully I’m finally back in my room again, and I’m slowly trying to get back to normal!

Dennis has been bugging me to put these up, so now that my scanner’s hooked up again I finally can! Here goes.

First is one last page of Bambi sketches I did before the Great Flood which kind of destroyed my inspiration for it a bit… The only sketch I really like on this page is the one of Bambi sitting looking surprised. =) Still way too much of my own style in them, but ah well!

Some random chicas I drew a few days ago. The lady in the bottom left corner was sketched from a photo from LIFE Magazine’s website. =) Sometimes I need to remind myself that I can still draw from reference.

I was eating with Dennis at The Eatery two nights ago (Thanksgiving Monday, actually!), and since I had all my stuff with me (was moving back home) I pulled out my sketchbook and started to draw. I sketched the chick there first. The Eatery has some really awesome pop-culture-ish woodcuts on the wall, and one of them is a bust of Dick Tracy, and without knowing what else to draw I started to draw him. It looked like he was eyeing her up at a party, and things just lead from there…

The dialogue is: “How d’you like them gams, Dick?” He replies: “I like ‘em swell, Charlie.” Etc. I’m so silly.

Forgive the language in the writing there; I was giving an example of my cursive handwriting (first paragraph) versus my printing (last paragraph). The middle paragraph is Dennis’ usual scrawl. =) Dennis is the one that provided the passage. Heehee.

And the Shit-Bot 2000. Again, forgive the language! I think he’s quite cute, actually…

And now for something completely different:

A random map I drew in Geography class because I was bored and I love drawing maps. =) Drawn with a blue bic ballpoint pen. Ignore the pencil lines; I was trying to figure out tectonic forces, but that was way after drawing it, so it makes no sense whatsoever.

And Galactic Space Newfies. Long story. They’re wearing those big rubber rain hats, by the way, and wellies. The dialogue is: “But how can you tell he’s the captian?” Response: “Idiot, he has the biggest hat!”

Right. Now that I’ve proven my artistic genius, I’m going to go watch more Monty Python. *poofs*

Here are a couple more pages of Bambi sketches done last night.

All except the faces with numbers next to them were direct copies/look offs from the model sheets on Michael Sporn’s Blog. I think I’ll have to do them a couple more times before I start to get the look down exactly.

I think all of these bodies except for the small one in the bottom left corner were from my head, using the model sheets as reference.

Some problems I’m noticing already after giving myself a day or so to come back to them: I draw the eyes a little small, and I try to draw the head as a sphere, when it isn’t one. It’s slightly elongated/pointed; shall have to work on that. Proportions are also rather screwy, which is understandable, since he’s such an outrageously proportioned character!

Also; my drawings are very flat; there isn’t enough roundness/form in them. I really have to work on construction and making sure I understand the character in 3D, not just as lines on a page.

More practice. =)