Creative

Daily Drawing No. 49: Octopus

I was originally going to leave off the suckers, then decided to spend 5,000 hours adding them. Hooray!

And for the third sketch in a row, I immediately saw things I wanted to fix after posting.

Fixed octopus is first–the shading on the tentacles was fixed, along with replacing one row of suckers that were done in a slapdash style. I also went and tidied up a bunch of suckers because I am a sucker…for punishment! (lol)

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Daily Drawing No. 48: Turtle

I suppose it makes sense that I’m a day late with a turtle. They can be rather slow.

But not this one–it’s a sea turtle! I decided to just keep it as a basic pencil sketch, but it turned out decently.

Again, I noticed things I wanted to fix immediately after posting, so the fixed turtle is first, the original is #2.

New improved turtle
OG turtle

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Daily Drawing No. 47: Fish

This is a rainbow shark of sorts. I decided to do it all in pencils, which was…interesting.

I spent way too long on this for some meh results, but I did learn a few things along the way, so all goodish!

Also, I spent way too long trying to pick the background color.

Fake edit: After posting I went back and made some changes to the sketch (prompted by the “bucktooth” in the original). The revised version is first, followed by the original.

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Daily Drawing No. 46: Whale

Killer whale, to be precise.

I was originally just going to draw a killer whale, then I thought it would be fun to make it look like a real killer, so I tried giving it a knife and I couldn’t get it to look right, so I switched to a revolver. A friend of mine long ago did an amazing sketch of a killer whale dressed as a gangster with a Tommy gun. I’m a long ways off from that, but maybe I’ll get there.

As you might imagine, getting a killer whale to hold a tiny gun in a giant flipper is not the easiest thing to pull off. But I tried!

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Daily Drawing No. 41: Otter

I am dissatisfied with my otter. The head is not bad (except for the ear–I draw ears like Liefeld draws feet), but the general look of the fur and the forelegs is just blah. I used reference and I think I would have been better off to go my own creative way on those aspects.

Or I could have cropped it to just the neck and head.

But it is recognizably an otter, so it otter do.

P.S. The grass looked OK to me until I actually sat back and really looked at it. Now I think it’s weird, too. I used the same Combed brush from the Fur and Fluff brush set for it that I did for the otter itself.

If I ever go back to redo any of these (which is admittedly unlikely), this will probably be one of them.

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