Catching up 2014 : Self Portrait Day Nov 1st

I also did the annual self portrait on SPD on Nov 1st, of course. It had been an awfully busy week and weekend with costume making, Halloween celebration with kids, house guests and whatnot, but I managed to get some time on this as well.

The idea is that you're only allowed to use that day, Nov 1st, on it, you can't start on it beforehand, and you have to post it before midnight your time zone. I've done it for years now, so it'd be a pity to miss it. I had to end it when I was about to fall asleep over the tablet, pen in hand, hehe.

Also, have some pumpkins, we had fun making them, and my kid decided what we were making this year. Small indoor pumpkins, huge outdoor pumpkin.

Catching up 2014: Some Inktober

Even though my blog has been a bit neglected lately, I have been doing some stuff now and then, here and there. I think perhaps it is about time for me to play catch up. Also, there is a chance I'll change the kinds of posts here a little bit, as I have been doing a lot of other crafts than drawing in various forms lately, and maybe it's time to show some of that here.

Trying to keep some order in the chaos by starting from where I posted last and make some posts every couple of days or so about what I've been up to, is the goal.

Kicking it off with a larger one. In October I did Inktober. I didn't run out of ink, but I did run out of time, it happens. I was lucky enough to make a few though. As would be expected, there is quite a bit of difference in the quality, but here they are nonetheless. Hopefully I'll make even more next time.

Norway vs Europe

So, from what I've gathered, outside Europe not many knows that Norway is not a part of the European Union. We're in NATO and UN, but we're not in EU.

Some of you might've seen the street art becoming popular with the EU flag in some way or another and NO WAY with the R either missing or slightly obscure... well, yes, that would be us. Norway. The No Way.

Anyways... Slightly insomniac today. So I did a political piece. Which is not something  I often throw out there. Two blog posts in one night, oh my.

Pillar of me

The pillar of skulls... No, I mean, the pillar of me... This isn't Planescape: Torment... ;)

Just messing around. Let's call it getting ready for November 1st (Self Portrait Day). ;) Strange times, when I sit down my drawing is competing with my writing these days, as well as school as I've started evening classes.

Anyways, it's fun and it's helping me with some fundamentals. :)

Portrait of an alien

After struggling with so many images lately, using days and days to get things right and pushing myself (and not really having the time to draw that much anyway..), I just wanted to do something relaxing and totally within my comfort zone and tiny little box.

Tonight that meant making some kind of portrait, and finding some ref photos when I had decided what I wanted to do with my sketch. 

Since I watched Guardians of the Galaxy yesterday, this is what I ended up drawing. A few hours of playing around. :)

Lady on top of a ... friggin horse.

So, this is the thing I have been fighting with. I could go on and on about that, but whatever, artist blah blah blah. C&C welcome and appreciated, here, FB or PM. I know, the bg needs work. I just deleted all the people looking at her too. Sometimes posting something helps me see the mistakes in another light.

Anyways. I kind of love it and hate it. As usual. :P Work in progress.

 

Oh ops, I seem to have deleted her eyes too. O.o

Victory: First question was "is the back legs crossed?" instead of "are the legs broken?" ;) 

The heat. THE HEAT!

So, you could say that it's been hot here lately. So hot that in fact I've been more busy cooling down myself and my family more than doing too much art. Also, a bit of summer things like amusement parks, roller coasters, tenting, swimming and building play houses to fasten slides on (there might be a panel about that later...).

Anyway, I've done a bit here and there, and after being to an indoor concert today where not only the people on the stage almost melted off it but the audience almost melted off their chairs, I ended up finishing this one.

I've started on both more panels and drawings, so hopefully I'll post some more later. I just haven't really had the energy to finish any of it, heh.

But here's a photo I've posted other places from some sleepless nights earlier in the heat wave, I worked my way through them doing an old thing I used to do a lot: