Return of the Sketchbook
Now showing in a blog near you. Inkbeard post #25
Heads Up.
Drawing heads is the thing I tend to gravitate the most towards. For some its scenery, others machinery. Personally, when I resort to drawing faces, it usually means I either am short on time or short on ideas. Last week I had few ideas which I can remember properly, and so we see the myriad of faces in the pages of the sketchbook below. Hail Mary though it be, it is a handy way to stumble across new ideas.
As for the short story, I have not dedicated much time to finishing the rough draft, but as I’m in no hurry there is little urgency. I imagine if I ever get a job drawing for a comic book agency there will be deadlines, and that those deadlines will help me get a move on. But working one night a week would not be a hard thing to do.
Artsy Fartsy
Below are four of the most recent pages from my sketchbook. Unfinished art still counts as art, and therefore is worthy to have a place here. The first is split into two days. The creature heads came from a late night doodle, the lower half comes from a character sketch of a wood elf I am playing in a D&D campaign. The second comes from a realization that my abilities in drawing the human mouth is weaker than some, and so I decided to practice. Lips in particular are tricky. The third is much the same, but I almost left it out due to how little I like the main portrait–not well enough defined. But there are some gems there, and I wanted symmetry, and so it was added. The fourth is actually a bit of art for the short story, figuring out some machinery for the scenery. (See what I did there?)
Future.
I think a good plan going forth will be attempting to work on the short story at least once a week in order to keep things moving. I have so many ideas cued up for their own comic that the pushing and shoving is getting quite inconvenient. I must actively restrain them so that I don’t go rushing off to start more projects than I’ve finished. Ideas such as the California Monster Hunters, the Urban Samurai, the Wizard, the monks of Onomi of which I have yet to divulge information on, and a few more amorphous blobs. Celtic mythology and legends of the British Isles are a favorite subject, but so is science fiction. Not to mention the various D&D campaign ideas, card games, and crafts mingling about in some sort of college reunion for ideas up in my skull.
In short, one thing at a time, because I can only juggle so many projects. And so once a week it shall be, and I stick to it.
Farewells
And so we have come to the end. I apologize for the lateness of this particular post, but Sunday evening was too tiring, and I technically still released a post on Monday. I hope you will join me next week for more art and that you will inform all of your friends and relations of the marvelous blog with which you start your week. Adieu.
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