Hey guys! I had a sub-par drawing weekend, so I took it out on everybody by hiding away from the world. I usually don’t recognize it until I’m seasons into re-watching a show. Then I wake up from a stupor and wonder why I haven’t been drawing for days.
It took me till season 3 episode 1 of Mad Men to remember that I’d rather be drawing. You gotta admit, that’s pretty productive television watching.
Onward! With the ABCs:
I got stuck on “M” for a very long time. I always knew what I wanted to do, but at the start of a project, and at it’s middle I panic. Guess what letter ‘m’ is? 13th, right in the flippin’ middle. So I react in a lot of ways when I fight against completing something. In this case I created an entirely new comic for me to draw. I have the outline for what should end up being 3 graphic novels. As much fun as that idea is, it was not helpful in finishing this alphabet.
By far the fastest of all of the letters. Not exactly a fan ( I like the look of a complicated piece more) but I think it’s a nice visual rest from everything I’ve been throwing at you.
Not as good as it’s sister piece, the emus, but the idea is really fun.
I’m not proud of the pigs. I’m good at animals so that sticks out to me, but I’ll deal. This piece, like several others, really benefited from being colored. So many of the B&W pieces are just this jumbled mass of lines, and it was in coloring them that they really started to shine.
Horses are just too dang big to do anything more with. I mean, I guess I could have brainstormed something, but if I really wanted to justice to their proportions, it was a one horse deal.
Next to the frogs, the sloppiest letter of the alphabet. I don’t feel too bad though, it was some good problem-solving. So, once upon a coloring-this I realized that I had drawn white-tailed deer. I was doing this right before Christmas, and was drawing ‘reindeer’ for Santa’s sleigh in other pieces. However, most reindeer (Rudolph included) are much closer to being white-tailed deer than actual arctic reindeer. When I was about to color this in March, I realizes my mistake. That for ‘R’ I drew the wrong type of deer. And I also realized no one would care. I could leave the piece, and it’d be fine. Because the idea of redrawing it from scratch, when I was 9 colored letters away from being done? Horrified me.
In the end, I knew it would forever bothered me, so I did my best on my tablet to correct it. For most parts of the reindeer you can’t tell what was original and what was sketched in, unless you look for it. You can definitely tell on the antlers though. I compromised quality for speed, and in this case it doesn’t bother me that much.
Okay! That’s all the animals for this week. I feel more on track, so I shouldn’t mess up next week.
Thanks for stopping!
