Sketching In Class

To-day I drew these loveable folks in class. I took some notes too, I guess.

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.

Sketch #13

Another landscape! The grassy knoll in the foreground seems out of place; the perspective doesn't work, I don't think.

Sketch #12

Monocle-Man-But-With-Bird-Wings-And-Also-A-Reptile-Tail is luckier than his friend Bird-That-Is-Being-Shot-At-By-A-Very-Short-Plane. This is because Bird-That-Is-Being-Shot-At-By-A-Very-Short-Plane is being shot at by A-Very-Short-Plane.

Sketch #11

I drew these anti-clockwise, starting with the car. The Parrot Man was intended as Perrin Aybara from the Wheel of Time (which only a couple of other people I know actually have read.) where the parrot should be a falcon. He can talk to wolves, which is why I next drew one. Not entirely sure why I connect it to the vehicle to make... CarWolf!

Sketch #10

The first elf is meant to be Dobby (I was going through the Harry Potter books for the zillionth time at the time) but just does not work, thus the "ew". The second elf is also intended to be Dobby, but once again, falls short. Even if it does land closer to the mark, though this might be due to the tower of tea cosy hats. The notation once again will confirm my opinion on the sketch. Sciencelf, on the other hand, works quite well. Originally destined to be a third Dobby, my despondency with the first two attempts, when paired with the scribbling of a lab coat, mug, clip board, glasses and little elven-eyelashes, gave rise to the glory of Sciencelf. The Archway is some kind of Minecraft Archway.

Sketch #09

Three bearded men, except that one had a shave. See if you can guess which one!

Sketch #08

More Johnny Bravo, a Cool Mustache Dude, Cat Paw, Long Neck Man connected to Hoodie Emo, the back half of a cat, some guy with a transparent hoodie and Curly Haired, Big Eyes and Nose Guy.

I don't like this Johnny Bravo either, though I do like the way his hood sits.
That mustache looks like it'd be comfortable on the set of a Western.
That Paw, I have no idea.
Long Neck Man's impressive eyebrows are impressive but don't ask about the Long Neck.
The Hoodie Emo was some guy who came through work; he was slouching so despondently that his fringe hung foward from his Hood of Solitude and swung in time to his Shuffle of Despair.
Maybe this decapitated cat is the owner of the Paw?
The transparent hoodie is some research into the physics of Hoodie Emo's depression.
Curly Haired, Big Eyes and Nose Guy, I dunno, maybe he's ignoring the insanity occuring above him.

Sketch #07

A Crusty Hat Wearer, then trying to draw Johnny Bravo (TV character) from memory. He turned out OK, though the semi-submerged one seems to have more style. (It was just to cover up the mouth I didn't like the look of.) The body of number two is odd.

Sketch #06

The theme of the first half of this sketch book is drawing people, so there will be many more characters coming. I tried to make The Blind Guy have an ambiguous orientation. Is he looking forward, or backward? I suppose it doesn't matter: he's blind. Also his friends Pocket Man and Priesty.

Sketch #05

This is one of my favourites. The Floating Dude, The River, Houses and the Giant Diglett etc. The Diglett was helpfully and surreally added by my work-mate Tom. I like landscapes in general; there are a couple more later on.