Sorry about the whole posting-once-every-month thing. I've been trying to keep some sort of regular schedule, but obviously it hasn't really worked. In the meantime, here are some doodles that I've done quite recently. Both of these drawings were drawn with a point 01 Micron pen on Moleskine paper. I've been testing different characters and such and these are the result.
This particular drawing was just an experimentation on how I could draw shadows. I mainly looked at the works of W. Heath Robinson and Mike Mignola, who is undoubtedly the master of working shadows into his work and Robinson is just another Golden Age master of drawing.
Anyways...hopefully I'll be posting some more NEW drawings before the month is out.
(This theme just popped in as soon as I wrote the tite of this particular post)
Holy Mother of the GODS...it's been a while. Sorry about the prolonged absence, but I haven't really had the time, at least before I didn't have the time. I could list out the woes and such, but I don't want to bore you kind readers, but now I have....DRAWINGS!!! (or, more specifically, two paintings and a drawing)
This character was...well...I don't quite know what he was, but I had done this particular character before in some of my other, older, sketchbooks from when I was in high school. He was drawn with a Micron point 01 pen and painted with watercolor paint, his little scarf decorations there were drawn with Sharpies.
I started reading The Once and Future King, by T. H. White, it's a good book, but there's a sequal to that particular book entitled The Book of Merlyn and it was illustrated by Trevor Stubley and I was inspired by one of the illustrations of the book. So, I decided to draw and paint up my own version of Merlin. It could also be Dumbledore, but don't all the legendary wizards look alike, admit it. This was drawn and painted with the same materials as mentioned previously.
This little character was drawn while I was hanging out with some of my friends. I wasn't bored, it's just that I felt like drawing this little character. He was slightly inspired by the work of an amazing artist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Monge, you should really check out his work (there is a link to his Facebook page). Unlike the previous characters, who were drawn on watercolor paper, this was one of the first drawings to adorn a new Moleskine sketchbook, and it was drawn with a Micron pen, point 01, same as the previous two.
Well, that's all, for now, but if you would like to take a gander at these characters and some other characters, I have two different tumblr blogs that you kind readers can gawk at and a facebook page that you can waste some time on, even though, admittedly, there's barely anything on it. There should be more doodles coming soon. Thanks for sticking around.
I know that everyone and their brother has posted something about this cartoon that appeared on Google today, but I thought that it was an interesting way to commemorate Winsor McCay, one of my favorite cartoonists. I couldn't resist posting this because it is just simply a great piece of art.
Here's the comic that coincided with the Google doodle for today:
Yep, this is officially my favorite Google Doodle, ever.
Here's a comic that I quickly drew up when I was bored one day. I had a ball coming up with this bombastic, over-dramatic character. This was drawn with waterproof ink and a dip pen. I should have a good, and painted, version of this little comic.
Here's a darker copy in case the previous wasn't that legible.
I have been fiddling with the creation of a sort of icon for this blog, if there would ever be on. I was doodling one day and came up with this ink-black balloon.
Then I went onto a website called picmonkey and played around with it further.
This was the "final result," just not quite sure what to do with it, really. It's merely an idea for the time being.
When I was bored one day, actually when I had a bought of writer's block on a paper I was writing, I got out some of my drawing things and began doodling. The outcome of that bought of boredom was this collection of small portraits of one of my favorite comics, Tintin.
Here is the good Professor Calculus.
The world-weary Captain Archibald Haddock
Here are the heros of the piece: Tintin & Snowy (Milou).
These were drawn with a dip pen and waterproof ink (they might even be watercolor'd one of these days).
My family and I went on a sort of one-day-holiday to Auburn, Indiana, specifically the Auburn Cord Dusenburg Museum, where these rolling pieces of art were manufactured. This is my favorite.
I've always had a soft spot for the Auburn 852 Boattail Speedster, I had a little Hotwheels model of it when I was a kid and it has, since then, become nothing less than a dream car for me.
These were meticulously manufactured for those who had deep pockets and had a need for speed. These cars were rolling sculptures and were the epitome of the jazz age.
Needless to say, I was in heaven looking at various cars like these. I ran around and found that I had taken over a hundred pictures, my dad, the ultimate car guy in the house, had taken well over hundred as well. We were like kids in a candy store, basically. It was great.
Until next time, I'll be cruising around in a great 1916 Dodge (boy, I wish)...
This was just something I did merely because I was bored. I have no clue what in blue blazes it could be, possibly something from the mind of H. P. Lovecraft (?), but I enjoyed drawing and painting it. After I painted it I went to a site called picmonkey and did the frame and the words Good Day above it.
This was drawn with a dip pen and ink and then painted with watercolor paint. After the paint dried I then drew out the paisley design on his lapel and the iris as well as the feathers with a Sharpie pen (blue and red).
I had recently bought a Micron brand drawing pen (with a point of 01, for those who are curious) and, instead of the usual dip pen and ink, I decided to take the Micron for a test run, so to speak. This first scribble here is just a sort of mash-up of my favorite things about one of my favorite television shows, Doctor Who, so I just sort of made up my own version of the main character, The Doctor, with his trusty sonic screwdriver and a shortly-lived fez. The colored bits in this drawing were done with a Sharpie marker and a fine-point Sharpie pen (red for the tartan design on his coat and blue for the bulb of the sonic screwdriver).
This next drawing was just one of my all time favorite books when I was growing up, Harry Potter. I could go on and on about it and how just bloody awesome and inspiring it was, but that's for another time. Granted, it might not be a good version of the Boy Who Lived, but, like I said, it was a test run. This drawing was painted with watercolor and I used red Sharpie pen to emphasize the red stripes in Harry's sweater (and it might look like his sweater is red and white, but I swear I meant for it to have the Gryffindor colors, and sorry, in advance for the sort of ovular frame around Harry, it's a bit wonky, I know).
One of my favorite books is The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame and everytime I read it I can't help but think of old-fashioned motorcars of that era that Grahame had written this great work. I always loved the sort of clunky quality of those old motorcars and steamcars of the age when the automotive industry was just blooming. Although this little doodle at the side here is a thoroughly made-up version of those motorcars, I still love those old cars.
Also, one of my favorite characters from The Wind in the Willows, besides Mr. Toad that is, is Ratty. I have always enjoyed his amiable nature and how he just wants to go scullying in his boat along the river. Ratty has that sort of nature that is familiar to all of us because we are or we know someone similar to Ratty. This version was sort of inspired by a movie version of Grahame's book in which the great Mark Gatiss portrays him down to a T I think. I have no idea why he would be smoking a pipe here, but it suits him all the same.
Notes: To start off the title of this post is a sort of play on words to the Latin saying Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), but this one means "I think, therefore I go really fast." As you can tell, I really enjoy wordplay, too. Now, the first drawing was more of a doodle and was drawn with just a regular mechanical pencil and the second was drawn with a fine point pen.
I had recently seen the movie Hugo and also read the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret and I really enjoyed them (and highly recommend them). When I was waiting for a class to start one day, I decided, purely out of whim to draw the Man in the Moon with the rocket in its eye, like film, From the Earth to the Moon, by Georges Melies (I know there are accents over the two "e"s, sorry). I soon became kind of obsessed with the drawing.
Now, whenever I have time to kill I have just been doodling the Man in the Moon. I particularly like how, in the movie, not so much in the book, how the stars are drawn. Most stars are drawn the typical fashion so that they kind of look like exaggerated letter A's, but these stars actually look like stars, at least in my way of thinking. The last drawing in this post is just me fiddling with the idea of an anthropomorphising a planet...
Voila...SATURN!
Granted it might not catch on, but, either way, I enjoyed drawing these characters, all the same.
Hopefull I'll have something fairly new up here, soon.
Keep a sharp eye out.
Notes: the first doodle was drawn with a fine-tipped pen and the rest were drawn in pencil.
I found out that yesterday that it was Howard Carter's 138th Birthday on the 9th of May (yesterday, according to the post). I have always enjoyed Egyptology because I remember learning about it in school and it has intrigued me ever since. For those who don't know who Howard Carter is, here is a brief synopsis: Carter was an Egyptologist who was hired by Lord Carnarvon to a dig in Egypt. Carter was famed to be one of the first to find King Tutankhamun (or, the colloquialism of King Tut). I just thought that it was fun to paint this since Carter was the only one out of the expedition who wasn't effected by the Curse of King Tut, so what better way to memorialize the hero than a mummy.
These pictures were done when I was just killing time the other day. They were all drawn first with pencil and then outlined in waterproof ink and then painted over with watercolor paint.
This picture was kind of my favorite to draw out with his obnoxiously long ears. As you can tell, some of the green was still on the brush when I painted the eyebrows, my apologies.
Although these pictures were taken last year, on a vacation to Connecticut (these are pictures of two different kinds of statues in Kent, Connecticut), I thought that these were pretty interesting pictures.
This is of a statue that is near an art museum in Kent, I believe. I particularly like the blooming hydrangea in the background.
These were a stone's throw away from the previous statue. The stone wall behind these statuesque figures (ah, wordplay) was particularly interesting.
Just thought that they were good pictures to start off summer. Perhaps I might even draw versions of them in the near future.
Until then, keep a sharp eye out for my next post.
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