Currently working on some stuff I can’t post (taking my own advice and *not* using Blaugust as an excuse to put off major projects) so here are some sketches from my bus ride today.
Piranha Plant is my new Smash Bros main. I was hoping maybe I’d be able to put up some more complete pieces but I’m sure this won’t be the last we see of it this month.
Mostly just did cooking experiments tonight. So only sat down to scribble some stuff really late. Here are some tiny doodles.
Apparently there’s some drawing thing going on called Mermay or something? Well here’s Singapore’s best shot at inventing a mythology for itself. The Merlion is half lion, half fish. And it shoots lasers from its eyes.
This is a substitute post for my missing Friday post.
If the last picture was all about the weapon, then this one is all about the sub-weapon! I started sketching this one out before checking what gear the player wanted. I had the squid posed with a raised left hand, which I didn’t really have an idea for how it would fit into the picture. Maybe the character was taunting? After checking that the weapon was going to be a .96 deco I decided I’d depict the character as throwing a Splash Wall and making a hasty retreat behind it.
Unfortunately there wasn’t really the space for the splash wall, so I erased the original portrait sketch and restarted in landscape. Even then I didn’t leave enough space at the top of the page for the splash wall to fit but I think the idea is there.
Maybe it’d be a better picture without the Splash Wall at all, but I want to draw one so there! Next part is to decide on a style to paint this up in.
Another piece of Oceanink Offensive prize-art, this time featuring II Phlox.
Drawing weapons from Splatoon is always fun, and working out how they fit together is part of the challenge. I actually had an “aha” moment when I worked out the handle for the Hydra Splatling is a valve wheel.
Since the previous one was inked I’m debating whether to ink this one before painting it – I’m not sure how much I want to have the entire set fit together visually. Currently leaning towards not-inking it. I’ll wait a day and look at it with fresh eyes later. I can already see some bits that I’d like to fix up before proceeding.
No I’m not delaying the painting to drag out another day of Blaugust content, what an outrageous suggestion!
Throughout the last few months we’ve been running the monthly Splatoon tournament series Oceanink Offensive. As prizes for the tournaments I’ve been doing art!
For April’s tournament, I drew portraits of the runner-up team Got Kraken. I’m pretty proud of these. I had a lot of fun coming up with poses and trying to illustrate recognisable weapons and equipment. I erased and redrew the Octobrush three or four times, and I’m really glad I did so because the end result is something I’m very happy with. I’m only a little sad I didn’t take some photos of my earlier attempts at drawing the Octobrush because I think some of them were actually pretty good stepping stones to what became the final drawing.
I have been trying to draw stylised deer for a little while, with the intent of laser cutting them and turning them into charms. They all look terrible and terrifying. Here’s a sketch I did as a kind of “cleanser” to hopefully get all that bad art out of my system (I can only dream).
This is my first entry into Sketchtember. Some of my friends will be attempting to do a sketch-a-day throughout September but I think after Blaugust I might not commit fully to the endeavour in case I hit burn-out. After all, Inktober is coming too.
Today’s sketches cover some birdy ideas for designs that could be turned into brooches or pendants, similarly to how I painted the Callie and Marie charms. Most of these were painted with a brush pen without any pencil sketch underneath – considering that I’m pretty pleased with a couple of them.
I’m playing around with a few birds and animals, I should probably pick a design to finalise before moving onto the next animal but if you have a creature that you’d like me to sketch up let me know and I’ll see what I come up with.
A few friends started playing a game of Diplomacy lately, and it was suggested to me that I illustrate each player as the leader of their respective country.
Seems like good enough content for Simulacrum Sunday to me – I’ll be basing these pictures on photos and drawings done while hanging out with people. But I’ll also be adding silly hats where possible.
I started things off with John as Germany. I drew the hat (a pickelhaulbe) first and then tried to fit John in afterwards. I didn’t really use a photo reference – I think I drew him while he was playing Mah Jong. I also did this sketch relatively small – I needed to scale it up to match the later ones which means the linework looks rather different. I might redo this at some point.
Here is Kevin, who is playing as Russia. I’m told that calling this hat a ushanka would be historically inaccurate, but Russia is cold and hats like this had been around for a long time before they were used in military uniforms. I think I again started drawing the hat in a bit early, which messed a bit with my ability to get the likeness down.
Hywel is playing as Italy, thus he gets to look somewhat Pope-ish! Hopefully this is where I hit my stride. The photo I used as reference was excellent and I focused on getting all of Hywel’s features down before drawing his hat in. I also started on a fairly large scale. I think I might need to fix his eyes up though.
Diplomacy is a game of seven nations which means that I’ll need to illustrate another four players! So look out for those, uh, exciting portraits as another Sunday post (or two).
PS: Is there any hat that one can Google and not get a TF2 equivalent come up as a search result? Consider that a challenge for you punters out there at home.
