Drawing Every Day – Page 2 – The Library of Dresan

Days 189-192

Published July 5, 2021 by centaur

Well, something weird happened with my blog which interfered with updates, so, boo, but nevertheless, it cleared up on its own despite my best debugging efforts, so ... yay? #nervous_laughter And updates. First, here's a quick concept sketch from JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE FLYING GARDENS OF VENUS of the antagonist character "the Parasolite" ... or, more properly, one of her bodies:

The Parasolite prime interrogating Puck in her throne room. Looking at both of these, I'm not getting the length of the human leg correct; I need to work on body proportions as much as faces.

After a long day of writing Camp Nano (oh, I'm doing FLYING GARDENS OF VENUS for Camp Nano) I gave up and did this quick sketch of Brainyon, the brain-jar spider-boy shown earlier, drafted as a mercenary by our "Robert De Niro in Casino"-styled protagonist / antagonist:

Concept sketch for the Parasolite Prime.

Drawing every day, even if I can't always post.

-the Centaur

Day 188

Published July 2, 2021 by centaur

A pretty crummy quick sketch of Peter Capaldi. Not sure where this one went wrong; there is no way to line this up with the original.

And the other drawing I'm working on had its own problems. Sigh.

Drawing every day.

-the Centaur

Day 187

Published June 30, 2021 by centaur

A pretty crummy quick Sharpie sketch of Indiana Jones, if I do say so myself.

I was about 5-10% off stretched and 5-10 degrees off in rotation. Yes, yes, I know I was doing a quick sketch so I could have time to work on some other drawings I'm doing, but man, this was bad:

Still, it's drawing every day.

-the Centaur

Day 186

Published June 29, 2021 by centaur

Re-sketch of Puck on the skywall, using a lightbox. That really cleans it up.

Drawing every day.

-the Centaur

Days 181-185

Published June 29, 2021 by centaur

Just because I was on vacation doesn't mean I wasn't drawing ... desk toy sketches

Above, a sketch of some desk toys ... below, I think it was a from-memory quick sketch of Indiana Jones, but I find that hard to believe.

Below, test sketch of Puck climbing a skywall from JW&TFGOV.

Test sketching the shape of a face ...

And another quick sketch of Gabby.

Drawing, even a little, every day.

-the Centaur

P.S. Monterey is, as always, awesome.

Day 180

Published June 24, 2021 by centaur

Quick Sharpie re-sketch of yesterday's drawing - no roughs, from memory. I'm almost afraid to see how I did:

Huh. The overall outline is better than I expected, but I squished his head and mixed up his arms. Interesting. Almost the opposite of Data as Mr. Light Bulb Head, we have Gabby the Pear-Headed Cat.

Welp, here's to remembering that better next time.

Drawing, even a little, every day.

-the Centaur

Day 179

Published June 22, 2021 by centaur

Pigma Micron sketch over non-repro blue roughs of Gabby the Cat. Let's see how I did:

As it turns out, I didn't pay too close attention to the landscape after the face, and so there's no way to make it line up perfectly no matter how you scale or rotate it:

Ah well. Still, drawing every day.

-the Centaur

Day 178

Published June 22, 2021 by centaur

Another take on Puck from JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE FLYING GARDENS OF VENUS, a quick sketch with roughs in non-repro blue, Pigma rendering, and flats in Photoshop - through which process I discovered she was black with blonde hair. Concrete descriptions for the representational win! Below, a quick sketch over non-repro blue of the Wings of Wisdom or Wisdom's Folly, the ramen sailshop where Puck works. All she wants to do is serve Venus some ramen, man, cut her a break.

Drawing every day.

-the Centaur

Days 174-177

Published June 20, 2021 by centaur

Just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean I haven't been drawing. Day 174 was a super quick Sharpie sketch of a face from one of my steampunk desktop backgrounds; it was too much of a quick sketch to be able to recover some of my initial mistakes:

Day 173 was a quick character sketch of Puck, the point-of-view protagonist of a new story I'm working on, JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE FLYING GARDENS OF VENUS:

Day 176 was a quick sketch of Byron (or Brainyon) from JW&TFGOV:

Day 177 included some quick sketches of speakers at the Embodied AI Workshop, which I was monitoring today; I'm not going to identify the speakers because (a) privacy and (b) many of these are terrible:

Drawing every day.

-the Centaur

Day 173

Published June 17, 2021 by centaur

Super quick sketch of Dakota Frost with a Sharpie.

Drawing every day, even when exhausted and crashing early after a long day.

-the Centaur

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