faded

For Illustration Friday. For once I got idea straight off the bat, but not had time to finish it earlier.

Ghostboy.

hitched skeletons

Because skeletons also have the right to be happy. Another missed Illustration Friday! :)

skeletal work in progressness

So I don't really like this weeks topic for illustration Friday, but I am trying to draw something for every week now no matter how much I can't think of anything related. And what do you (me) draw when you (I) are just so totally stuck? SKELETONS. I don't think I have ever posted a work in progress, but there! This is how I work (or start the ridiculously detailed drawings).

Also conversation between me and Chris:
Me: I really like drawing skeletons.They look so... gormless!
Chris: The ones that YOU draw do!

I think in this case they just look happy. There.

Mr Pofkins

A bit of crossposting. This is a comic I am going to do during October! Click on Mr Pofkins to go through to the website...

Halloween and life of a drawing uncovered.

I know it is still over a month until Halloween, but I am preparing something special Halloween-themed :). This post is a teaser-trailer and my way of working UNCOVERED.

This is a rough guide how this drawing came to life.

1. Sketch number one. Legs are missing - appalling. (Human age equivalent 0-1 months old)

2. Sketch number two. A potential, needing refinement. (Human age equivalent 1-12 months old)

3. Refinement in progress. (Human age equivalent 1-5 years old)

4. Inking complete with extra thing happening on the side. (Human age equivalent 18 years old)

5. Colors done (above), and extras etc cleaned up. (Human age equivalent 21 years old. After that it's not growing up anymore, just ageing).

(almost) November

Following a request by Group 2 Gosia, I am dropping painting (not really) and putting up some more of THIS.

This one here is first one in months series I started and this is November. I also have January (or February, need to decide still), but it isn't scanned yet. I kind want to make diaries or calendars with these things... But we are yet to see what comes out!

November always makes me think of Day of the Dead/All Souls Day and visiting graveyard - which is what we always did as a family to visit my grandfather's grave. Also that's when the Autumn kind of ends and Everything Dies!! Probably just hibernates, but that's nowhere near as dramatic.

Swedish dinosaurs

I went to Stockholm a couple of weeks ago, and while I was there I visited Natural History Museum. It resulted in a few drawings:



They aren't as complex as the London ones and there isn't anywhere near as many, but I just didn't feel like painting too much while I was on a holiday...

dinoes and aztec skull

It's pictures I drew on my London trip in January this year... Just never got around to scanning them. Since I have another bunch of dinosaur drawings I just decided to scan these as well.

























And the SKULL:

Loretta and Death

Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is one of my favourite albums ever. This picture is an illustration loosely inspired by one of the songs, Curse of Millhaven.

It's a drypoint print.

I love drawing skeletons.

Skeletons still life

I was tidying flat today and generally moving stuff around (and chucking some stuff out too) and I came across some of my older paintings. This one I did a wee while ago (when I could still access fake human skeletons), but I still like how it came out (that is, creepy).

A closeup, of some skull details (click to view):