NEW D&D CHARACTER!

Maybe. Young Master Gillen is looking to take up the reins as Dungeon Master (NERD!) and so I'm all excited to be able to design a character again to simply play as! So this is Hireith. No she's not based on the girl from Brave. Yes she's based on Osha from Game of Thrones. Yes, her name is the only word I know in Welsh which I know entirely because it was explained in an episode of Are You Being Served when they're rehearsing a tribute to Young Mr. Grace for his birthday. Also the number Mr. Rumbold calls to tell the lady that they've found her missing diamonds is 965-0721. Which also proves that at some point telephone numbers in the UK weren't always forty six numbers long. Why am I even still typing?

Also, hey, Blog, why is "&" not allowed in the blog labels? Bad form, old bean. Bad form. This is exactly the sort of thing that made it impossible in days gone by to hunt down a decent recording of the A&W Root Bear theme.

Wyrd House

Once upon a time, on a hill with one road, there stood an old house with one window and one door. One gloomy autumn day one strange little boy inherited the unusual house and learned that, locked behind the one door and shuttered behind the one window, there were a lifetime of secrets.

Metal Planet!

Hey! I've been working on a pitch now for about a month and this isn't it. This is a second pitch that I started working at on Friday night due to a sudden unexpected burst of inspiration. Thanks, Iron Savior!

Posting BONANZA!

I was going to finish stripping my trunk today but nuts to that. It's cloudy... and rainy... AGAIN... but there's a new Hammerfall album out and I was listening thinking "I'll do a quick little Barbarian speedpainting..." several hours later.... Conan is attacking a forest that has been germinated with Essence of Beholder. That or he was shrunk down SUPERTINY and is stuck in the eyeball plant at the beginning of Labyrinth take your pick.

Friday NIGHT post

I know I'm surprised as you are that I'm not out drinking rum and commiserating with fellows about how bad Stranger Tides probably is but circumstances prevented sufficient enthusiasm from being generated hence I stayed in, stripped wallpaper out of my stinky steamer trunk and did some drawings. I must say I totally chickened out on the bottle imps. I really wanted to do watercolour paintings of them but I'm a traditional media wussy. I think it's a good rule to never start out with a new (ish) medium with a really specific idea of how you want it to turn out or you'll just end up fighting and fighting and fighting and probably storming away and doing it digitally anyways. Also I should probably try and fix the second imp so that his tail is sticking out through a hole in the cork otherwise why's he still in there when he's so grumpy!

Adding another stab at Dow. Another swing and a miss. He keeps coming out like a Stabbington Brother and then I overwork him to make him not a Stabbington brother. One day, Black Dow, I will draw you properly.

Weird dream

Trying to draw this weird character that I saw in a dream. He's the French president. I don't think this is quite right. it's halfway between him and RK maroon from Roger Rabbit.

Wait what? Where'd April go?

Yeah... month without posting! For shaaame! The thing I wanted to post for April got delayed further so... here's some filler. I'm very bummed out by the weather of late and I'm firmly stuck in Pirate Mode. Arr. And having been drawing pirates almost exclusively since February I needed to get out of the rut. So I stole the Klei Sketch sketch club theme. I'd apologize, but... I'm a pirate. Arr.

And yes I've been trying to go to Life drawing again. Not enough hours in the day/days in the week to get there every week though.

EDIT I changed the voodoo lady a bit. Added some more colour and some linework to separate the forms a little better. I've never really got the hang of doing coloured lines and they're... Kinda half there and half not. Too timid I think. Well I'll try again next time.