We have our first real snow (not fake snow) of 2020 and it’ll be around for at least a few days, thanks to sub-freezing temperatures (it’s -6°C as I type this at midday). Rather than curse the snow, I will haiku it instead.
It's snow time again
That white stuff is everywhere
Stay inside till spring
It’s my first sketch since Inktober! It’s a gum gum person! Wearing a tiny pirate hat.
I’ve created a gallery with all 31 of my Inktober 2019 prompts. You can view it right here or by selecting it under the somewhat inaccurately named Photo Galleries at the top of the page.
Here it is, the second day of NaNoWriMo and I haven’t written a thing.
It feels great. So much time to do other stuff. I went to Costco today and bought a 20 liter jar of mayonnaise.
I am thinking I should keep up on the drawing now, because it’s fun and relaxing. But what to do? Possibilities:
A lot of possibilities. I will choose by…tomorrow.
My first idea was a laundry hamper full of stinky socks. My second thought was a giant watermelon. Then a bunch of bananas.
Inexorably I ended up drawing a sweaty but athletic gum gum person.
Some personal Inktober Fun Facts™:
I often found little mistakes or things I didn’t like in sketches, but never went back to fix them over the course of the month, with one exception–the prompt for INJURED is different on this blog than the original posted to Instagram. I fixed the arms and head because it just ended up bugging me every time I looked at them.
Overall, this was a fun experience. Much like discovering outdoor photography last year thanks to a kidney infection, I chose to do this at the last minute and am pleasantly surprised to have stuck to it.
Now I have to decide if I keep drawing and if so, what do I draw? An endless parade of gum gum people? Possibly!
Originally he was going to catch a fish but I couldn’t draw a fish I liked and didn’t want to cheat with reference. So I made it a hand grenade instead. I swear the pin is still in.
Happy ‘n hurt.
I did not use reference for the skateboard and moved/adjusted the wheels approximately five million times. But gum gum people!
In which a paintbrush takes the job into its own, er, hand?
This one should have been easy, but stumped me so much I was a day late. In the end I started with an entirely black background (dark, get it?) then waited to see what I’d do next. Spooky eyes, as it turns out. If I had come up with this idea right away, it would have been my quickest sketch, by far.
Mmm, cake.
Still more gum gum people and I need lessons on how to draw shadows.
