[Asatira]

Saw the latest Eva image on dA. Very nice.

[jskotte]

This last one turned out really great, really nice coloring.

[FreddyScribbles]

Asatira, Jskotte - many thanks

Agh! I've been horrid at going through sketchbooks for others. For which I apologize esp. if you're someone I tend to visit quite frequently.

Been busy with this, that, and the other.

Here are a couple of things - a belated thank you card (Sorry to keep you hanging), and a Nightmare entry for Sketchoholic

[Black-Spot]

I missed the 'octopus' one and did a double take on it as I didn't see him lurking under the bed at first. Cute panda and the clown shadow is spooky.

[FreddyScribbles]

Some doodling done through AZ. Didn't have nearly as much time as I'd hoped. However, lots of photographs means paintings! Hurray!

Had more fun playing with pattern and composition and just nutting around with a pen. Perspective is nonexistent. Which is fine. That was not the focus. That is - intentional disregard for perspective in favor of weird stylization. It is not there because I didn't put it in. ...if I wanted it there, it'd have been there...

I used to have a few process pictures from the Quiet Moment piece. I think I may have accidentally deleted them. Oops.

[FreddyScribbles]

Ahha!
Found the 'process shots'
...apparently there are only two?
eh. whatever. more later

[jskotte]

I like the watercolor image you just posted the process shots from, very nice color scheme, I love watercolors like this. The last post on the previous page, watch out for the perspective in some of them, I know you wrote it wasn't the main thing, but I think it's good to use it right, that way you train you eye to see it better and paint without all the guidelines.

[FreddyScribbles]

@JSkotte - thanks as always in this case, it was more style over substance. A lovely chance to just sort of doodle. I also have a tendency towards intentional distortion so it becomes more of a blatant disregard for perspective as opposed to unfamiliarity with perspective.


Okay, a blast from the past. After discovering what Igor was for Alesoun, I felt the need to go dig up my sketch journal from 2005's Australia project with ISV.

For those unfamiliar with Igor, he was a rather gigantic, unidentified plant happily growing to tremendous proportions outside Alesoun's home. Yikes! Turns out he was a verbascum thapsus or the Common/Great Mullein. For an even simpler name - giant, homeopathic weed.

As a result, I've scanned old drawings from the airport as well as the plant pictures from the field. These were done in a freezing cold heatless cabin in Victoria Australia. Most of them were taken from our base location near an Aluminium Smelting plant. Very neat stuff.

PS. ever have that sinking, sneaking suspicion that you used to be better at drawing before you gots all 'educated'? Not entirely the case with these. But they do touch something at the back of my mind.

[Black-Spot]

How wonderful! Yeah, sometimes overthinking everything gets in the way of doing.

[Sorknes]

Hey, I really like those plants! And yeah, every now and then I'll look at old drawings. Most of the time I'm like "thank goodness I'm better" but every now and then I'll be "how did I manage to do that this simple?"

[monstertree]

There's something really appealing about the mix of text and images, looking good

[FreddyScribbles]

a whole bunch of junk from sketchohoic marathons
...feels a bit retrogressive >_<
I don't actually feel that I'm getting any better.

All doodles were approx. 50 minutes unless otherwise noted

08.25.10_Pt2 - Animal Hat
08.30.10_Pt3 - Animal Powered Plane
08.25.10_Pt4 - Retired Boxer
08.25.10_Pt3 - Crazy Robot
08.30.10_Pt1 - Space Fisherman
08.30.10_Pt2 - Future Witch
08.30.10_Pt4 - Unusual Mermaid*
08.31.10_Pt1 - Cannibalistic Plant
08.31.10_Pt3 - Half-man Half-dragon

*Marathon Spring - 25 minutes

[FreddyScribbles]

and then...it's kind of amazing what you can do when you eliminate mental factors. In this case, you nix the need to conceptualize as your work and go for accuracy before speed...

some studies from the two part evening sketchoholic marathon

*Realistic Line Drawing based on photograph of woman dressed as Wonder Woman - no shading*


*Painting Study - Norman Rockwell*

[FreddyScribbles]

A first look at the newest of my personal projects - Real Men Don't *%$% Like Porn Stars

The original lines and a clean lines. Think I'll just paint over the sketch. Like it SO much more

[FreddyScribbles]

This was originally another one for Real Men. Not sure whether it'll stay that way.



ps. splodging around in Painter is FUN!