I chose pizza even though I’ve already done pizza. I was originally going to do a pizza sitting in a shaft of light on a stone pedestal, then realized that’s way beyond my current skill level, so I just did it against a glowy background instead.
I was going to make the pepperoni more 3Dish but couldn’t get it to look right.
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Here’s proof: a photo I took today of someone in the neighborhood celebrating Chinese New Year with a very bright decoration.
Once again, a food topic where I don’t really have a favorite, so I went with grilled cheese, because a good grilled cheese sandwich is indeed yummy.
I went with chalk brushes for this one. It turned out decent, I think.
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I chose chocolate, which is kind of generic, but mostly I wanted to draw a gum gum person with chocolate smeared all over its face.
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Missing Person by Sarah Lotz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Missing Person is, perhaps not surprisingly, a story about loss. But it’s also a story about friendship, moving forward, a mystery (naturally) and a murder (or two).
Shaun Ryan, a young man working at a small bookstore in the Irish town of Wicklow, has been told that his uncle, Teddy Ryan, died in a car accident. Always skeptical, he learns the truth as the story begins–his openly gay uncle was effectively driven out of Ireland by his conservative family in 1996, and fled to New York. He has not been seen since. He begins to search for his uncle, thinking he may still be alive.
Into this comes missing-linc.com, an amateur site dedicated to UIDs (Unidentified bodies) and a report of a murder victim found in the U.S. who might be Shaun’s uncle. The victim is found wearing a prom dress.
From there the story hops back and forth between the members of missing-linc.com, their lives, and their investigation into the cold case of Teddy Ryan’s murder.
Lotz often writes in epistolary and does so here to good effect, showing the personalities of the various amateur investigators through their forum posts, instant messaging and Skype chats. Shaun Ryan slowly gets pulled into the investigation and the group moves toward cracking the case, unaware that the killer of Teddy Ryan is still around–and very close.
Lotz juggles the cast well, slowly cranking the tension as it is revealed to the reader that one of the members of missing-linc.com is, in fact, a killer, and one whom the group is at risk of exposing. While the story races to a showdown of sorts, the journey to that point is the meat of the tale, illustrating how the work of digging up the past can have consequences in the present.
Recommended.
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SO TIRED OF DRAWING FOOD.
I chose pancakes, though I could have included a lot of things here. Technically these should be blueberry pancakes but I didn’t feel like adding the blueberries.
I also used a texture brush for the funky background and turned some sloppy line work into an intentionally arty white outline. Yeah.
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Finally, a prompt that isn’t a single item of food. But I still was uninspired, so went with a minimalist Inktober-ish approach.
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I didn’t want to draw a bowl of soup, so I made a can of tomato soup instead.
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From reference, though I altered a few details (I skipped the tomatoes, for one), cartoon-style burger and fries because trying to do them realistically is not something I could manage in ten minutes. Or probably ten hours right now.
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I didn’t feel like drawing a proper salad, so ended up with this:
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I was going for a more stylized taco thinger here and only indirectly used reference. I’m not sure I like the results, but it was an interesting experiment.
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I tried a few different brushes but was pretty uninspired tonight. I like California rolls but drawing sushi isn’t exactly something on my bucket list.
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