Oh ok I’ll stick this one here too, freehand calligraphy tool in inkscape, I direly need to figure out how to get it to produce sexy smooth lines instead of this gravelly charcoal-y thing (also god why is it so hard to find a proper colour selector in this thing I don’t want to be limited to swatches sheesh)
I would’ve added highlights and shadows to the hair bits, as is my custom, but uh I got bored
I’m not trying to morph into Kate Beaton I swear
well ok maybe a little
freehand with a 0.3 pigment pen in a non-marker-bleedproof moleskine
I made me a nekkid Cosby because of it being one of them experimental schticks.
Have been trying to sketch useful stuff but it all comes out as halfassed achewood-wannabeism. (Because achewood, you should know, is the best thing in the known universe.)
I like drawing cartoony wangs, was that not obvious
EDIT: My Cosby was rejected due to being too inappropriate. This is my greatest achievement on the internet.
I had painted a piece of cardboard BRIGHT PINK and was taking requests for what to put on it. The “morning-cranky” unicorn won. I’m posting the progress just to be absolutely sure no one actually thinks I sketch and plan these things in a proper workman’s-pride sort of way
(also because the poor camera AND the poor light in my flat pleases me with their “screw that, look at me anywayyy”-message)
This is where it starts:
This is where it ends:
The duck is attached to my bathroom wall. It is my spirit animal. It has not told me its name yet.
So I moved house and decided spilling paint everywhere was what I needed to do RIGHT AWAY, currently in progress:
Oh and done! Also just realised I have inadvertedly just created Yahtzee-fanart, not on purpose – but I suppose there are worse things to be an accidentally outspoken fan of.
Detail:
Yeah ok so I was exposed to these lovely personalities just now
(Posting entry whilst simultaneously curled up crying in the shower) (I hate people)
I’m easily intrigued by random ideas – and equally easily discouraged. In this particular case, I’m making a point of it because I had a lot of fun both planning and drawing this, and I felt that I had a valid point to make regarding the current hot topic in Norwegian media – although that is not going to be as-evident-as-planned from this version and its mangled text.
…This was going to be the first out of three pages. I never got further than this because the personal information I thought was mine to do with as I pleased, caused some drama I had not predicted. So I did a half-assed job of convoluting the big fucking secret before posting on a sketch blog, population: 2, just so everyone would stay happy. (Are you confused? Let’s put it this way: I won’t be at all surprised if Darth Vader calls, asking for a kidney.)
Aaaanyway. This was my first project using the GIMP, following my recent 100% switch to Ubuntu. I’m perfectly aware I can get photoshop running, but I’d rather figure out how to do what I want without it costing a fortune, yeah, thanks. I had fun. Still need to figure out how to get a less pixelly brush, but I imagine it’s quite doable. This change is, of course, easier for me than the illustrator-to-inkscape one, because vector graphics is what I spend the most time fiddling with.
Now I’m going to dig up my scanner. Again. It has a pile of socks on it.
The speech bubble is completely out-of-context, it was just what I was listening to Tim Minchkin ramble about. The cardboard came from the wrapping of my external harddrive and that purple marker is supposed to be a skintone. Mm, purple flesh.
