Dry Druids and men with pouchy faces

Here are some drawings from lately.

I've looked at Dusty Rhodes a little bit.





Then I got a new double ended marker pen so I looked at him with that.





When Dusty was young, he posed 'neath a cloud of graphite





I secretly study cartoons in the hope that one day I'll lighten up and be a cartoonist. Here is a lion jumping o'er the heads of Dusty and malteser headed blando Bobby Lashley.





Dusty has a little man son called Cody.





Cody had an encounter with Big Randy.





Really Randy was an elf druid and Cody was a little demon lord with flames coming out of his collar. Dusty was a sad elephant.

Or it might be just that I'd been playing the game Heroes of Might and Magic V too much.

The drawing is oddly dry and deadpan considering its deranged origins. My secret goal is to do juicy drawings.





And finally... well hello boys.

Spooky goat man variations and cartoonlessness

Here’s a little watercolour study of Kurt Angle done in the spirit of Turner. This one is FINISHED, I think. It’s teeny tiny.

But it turns out he’s really hard to draw. Here are some frustrated little studies. I will understand the shape of your head Kurt, one day.

Now here are a couple that have been nearly finished for a long time. (See my current grey blog entry for more on my nervous twitchy issues around finishing stuff.) These are still not finished, but on a screen that has less meaning. One is a softer more diffuse supernatural Randy Orton goat man (he needs more electricity though).

You might have noticed that I draw Randy Orton a lot. This would be difficult to deny.

One’s a slightly more rugged fluorescent Randy Orton goat man. I used a lot of white lines on him.

I was trying to incorporate some zeitgeisty graphical lighting inflections from game screenshots. Spell effects from RPGs and things. It seemed a wholesome way to attempt to be zeitgeisty.

Those are the at the spookier end of my idiom I reckon. Very dense and peculiar layering of materials going on here.

It’s nice to do two of something. It allows you to explore subtly divergent variations on an atmosphere.

I’ve got nothing very cartoony this week. It’s a shame. It’s one of the most challenging things to do well. Soon though. Soon it will come together.