Dyson's Dicember Prompts: Skull for Day 10, and Forest for Day 11

 I keep looking at this blog lately, thinking about how much I miss doodling and how fun it would be to start it up here again. 

 

I don't know if that's what I'm doing, but I did draw twice today. 

Immitating Amano, and Misc Doodles

Nearly all of the drawing I've been doing for the last few weeks has been preliminary work on a monster manual I'm working on. And even though my art won't be the final art which shows up in the product, it seems a little wrong to post art for a product that I'll eventually be asking people to pay money for.

However, I've also done some doodling of late which I'm proud of. Most of these are my attempts to imitate pieces by Yoshitaka Amano, one of my favorite artists. I mostly know him from the concept art he's done for games from the Final Fantasy series. His work is highly recommended.

http://www.elevenland.com/amano/amano.php3

Sorry for the use of lined paper. Didn't really intend to post these when I was doodling them, but they turned out a little better than my drawings normally do. 

Rorscharch Monster 1

I saw this:

And made this:

Doodles from Today's Game 4

Doodles from Today's D&D game 3

Slugfoot

I think my next major project may be a Monster Manual, after the whole 'Slaggoth' thing is done.

Doodles on College Ruled Paper

I enjoyed making these the other night while I was sitting in bed.

I just noticed something.

I just realized today that the way I currently draw muscular men's chests looks a lot like a face.

Doodles from Today's D&D games.

Another group of doodles I made during the most recent Numenhalla game with Courtney.

Grasshopper Head

This is what goes on in my brain.

Pretty happy with this. It will be explained in greater detail in tomorrow's Papers & Pencils post.

Doodles from Today's D&D Games

These are some things I doodled while playing in Courtney's Numenhalla game this morning. And a couple I did while running D&D&LB later that same night. Most of the time when I doodle, I've got some specific piece of anatomy I'm curious to experiment with, and I do a ton of sketches where that piece of anatomy is the focus. Here I did a few different doodles of people opening their lips and exposing their gums, for example.

Warrior Lady with Spear and...Gladius?

This is roughly based on the paragon barbarian in the Pathfinder RPG, though I played with it a little bit in my drawing. This is also the first time I've tried inking a drawing in a long while. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

Ogam Thorton, OR, The Third Wizard in Three Days

Another wizard. Because ANOTHER WIZARD. This is a big deviation from my normal style, if you can say my chicken scratching has a style. It's based on Gustie LaRu's sketch of one of my D&D characters, Ogam Thorton.

Lady Wizard!

Today I really didn't want to do anything. I've had a pretty busy week, and after my monthly game day, I felt so completely drained that I spent several hours watching TV, laying on the couch--I even took a nap. Much as I love writing, I actually find drawing to be more recreational. So after today's earlier drawing (which I would call a success) I thought I'd try something free hand (which isn't quite so much of a success). Her torso is too long, and her hands are not great, but there's nothing I'd point to as absolutely terrible in this. At least, not terrible by my standards. This was drawn without any references, so it's a better representation of my abilities than the previous drawing was. Practice is never wasted, right?

Sketch of a Wizard

This was sketched from the illustration for "Spider Web" in the DCC RPG source book. The original drawing is by Diesel Laforce. I'm reasonably happy with how this came out. Shading is not something I've practiced (though I think I probably should have been practicing shading for a long while now), and what's here is vaguely copied from the image, but not placed with a lot of thought. The spell effects are something I added just to see what worked and what wouldn't. I like the orb of energy better than the sparkly waves from the hand.

Sword at the Ready

Here I wanted to try and replicate the anatomy of one of the figure's in Darlene Pekul's 'Battle with Trogdolytes." Not awful, if I do say so myself.

Erin's Sacrifice

When I started this blog, I had to use my ladyfriend's scanner, save the image on her mac, and email it to myself. A frustrating process, and one which made the difficult task of drawing and writing every day even more difficult. I'm still shit at both, but as of an hour ago I have my own scanner hooked up to my brand new computer. I've drawn nothing new for tonight, but I wanted to share a piece I drew a month ago which I'm still quite proud of. Aside from the awkward leg (which I swear was less awkward one of the other 30 times I drew it) the anatomy is actually quite good, by my standard. For the record, this is a character of mine named Erin, after she has plucked out her own eye, and chopped off one of her hands in an act of deference to her god.

Last of the Shai

This is Beloch Shrike. One of my first characters. I haven't messed with him in years, but he still holds a special place in my heart, despite being painfully gary stu.

The art is pretty bad. Hands continue to be a problem for me, but I refuse to stop drawing them. At least his front leg turned out halfway decent.

Princess Champions Rebellion

A few years ago, Morrie and I had a long conversation where we made up this royal family who was very oppressive, and the 12-year-old princess ended up becoming the champion of the rebellion. I really don't remember much of it, but I've had a sketch Morrie drew hanging on the wall for a year or so.

This is my rendition of that sketch. Turned out pretty well, I think!

Halfling in a Hallway

I am pretty darned happy with this. It took some time, but it seems to have worked pretty damned well.

Inspired by yesterday when I spent 30 minutes looking for images of a group of adventurers exploring a dungeon, and didn't find anything.