Monday, January 9, 2012

Sketch #23

The top guys represent an attempt to accurately redraw the same person. Those look kinda similar, but this is a skill I need to work on. More of ya standard trying to draw some dudes. Baldy squat head there at the bottom reminds me of some cartoon character, but I can't quite out my finger on it.

Sketch #22

Well at first Fire Face only had his right arm depicted and no toothbrush mustache. So in no way did he resemble a certain "Austrian-born German politician". He was just another person trying to make his way through life while his head was on fire and being confronted by some angry pig-nose pop-eye guy. At a later date a fellow Pak n Save associate added certain elements to this image to alter what was being depicted.

Sketch #21

Most likely I drew this Angryman in response to how Pak n Save was making me feel. Several weeks later a coworker came back to this page and added tiny men fighting or dancing or something. Could be why ol' spiral eyes is so angry.

Sketch #20

Serious Pokémon goings on all up ins here. I tried to just go through in order and, from memory, draw little thumbnails of the first few 'mons. And it worked for the first couple of lines too! Raticate is where it started falling apart. Some kind of hideous zombie abonination, and the from there they start to get too big. Sandshrew looks like a Squirtle. And you will have noticed by now that I have done #029-#031 as the male Nidoran line, when everyone know that the female line is listed in the Pokédex  before the masculine. It was time to give up this insane scheme. And then draw a giant Sandslash head.

Sketch #19

I don't know what is going on with these two dudes. The second one seems to have a dribbling nose as well as a pokey tongue.

The two creatures at the bottom, however, are of course Pocket Monsters.
#001 Bulbasaur and #026 Raichu, two of my favourites. And I drawed them OK too. I hate how Pikachu's design has morphed from the original ball of tub it was in 1996 to the horrible skinny thing that it now continues to be in the wretched delusional world of Ash Ketchum; while Raichu is still just as tub as its was first designed as. So I try to make the Raichu that I draw more healthy, though this one might not qualify for that distinction. (Note: the pluarl form of any Pokémon is the same as the singular form)

Sketch #18

Related to the List Of Stuff To Draw project, here I try to draw a gender swap. The eyes and scarves help the two look related. Small page; small description.

Sketch #17

Just your standard Vulcan Salute (with a phantom thumb just hanging out in the background). I think this hand is pretty good really. "Live long and prosper" being the appropriate phrase to accompany a Vulcan Salute.

The symbol off to the right is an attempt to create a logo for myself, incorporating my initials KH. It looks like it should be the play button on some ancient VCR machine.

Alright, now all the stuff in the lower third here. You can ignore it if you really want, but I'll try explain it.
I was given a list of Things To Draw as part of a separate attempt to draw more stuff. A friend and I would each draw a thing from the list and send it to each-other. One of the things was "An imaginary failed product".

So brainstorming in mah sketchy book I imagined my product to have failed due to poor marketing, like when you lined a bunch up on a shelf it looked bads. So, like, what if it was called "apcr"; and then when put in a row you would get "apcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcr". But, as a name, that isn't even pronounceable.
So I went with a more visual take on the same idea, like a Vulgar Shape (not related to Vulcan Salute) magically appearing on the supermarket shelf. To add to the vulgarity and hilarity (hilgarity) I chose the product to be soy milk. It may just be the most immature thing I have even drawn. But my intentions were pure! Honest!

Sketch #16

In an attempt to try and both a) Draw a girl well and b) Draw the same person twice and have them look the same I scribbled out what I am going to call The Two Faces At The Top Of This Page. I terms of a) and b) it didn't pan out overly well. But, hey, practice is practice right? Face shape egg near the top is part of goals a) and b).

Quickly! Draw a hand! Didn't turn out well? Oh well, just do some posing heroically in a looking up at him perspective. That shirt isn't actually stripy, they are just Perspective Enhancement Line, as is the intenced function of the beard and spikey hair; though what those two do is actually make the guy look kinda like me.


Sketch #15

So another attempt at drawing a shoe. It seems to be kicking Cloak Man, whom I don't like the perspective of and his cloak is far too short. Though I do like the how his left hand looks. His right hand is OK too, I guess.

Houndoom is a Dark/Fire type dog Pokémon. (Get it Hound + Doom?!) He actually turned out alright despite those suspiciously cat-like pointed ears. And if you don't really like Pokémon never fear! There are many, many more of them yet to come in this sketch book.

The images at the bottom are Professor Layton, an English Professor from the Nintendo video game series Professor Layton. The standing one on the right is so many kinds of messed up but the middle one is not too horrible. The one on the left can be invisible, bar his hat of course.

Sketch #14

Searching for inspiration in the staff room, the most interesting thing I could see to draw was something that I see and use near every day; my iPod. Just in case you are unaware of what this iconic piece of technology is I helpfully included a label in the drawing. Bonus! I added the small air bubbles in the bottom right of the screen protector.

Inhabiting the bottom half of the page are parts of a Homestar Runner costume I was thinking about. I needed a hat with a spinner, white and blue shoes and white trousers. As if drawing them would somehow assist with the acquisition of these items I, uh, ... drew them. My shoe rendering technique requires improvement.