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Genre/Fandom: original doodle
Characters/Pairings: teddy bear, child
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
Teddy’s revenge dream doodle — screen resolution (ca. 68k)
Genre/Fandom: original doodle
Characters/Pairings: cute cthulhu
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
cute cthulhu doodle — screen resolution (ca. 52k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a red cap
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: Some time ago I drew a bowtruckle supposed to look like an excerpt from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. I wanted to do more in this style and did a poll which creature I ought to draw next. The red cap got two votes, all others either zero or one (it wasn’t a popular poll, heh), so here it is. Admittedly my turn around time isn’t exactly fast. I also have to give credit to Amelia Eve for suggesting a title for this imaginary work, because I couldn’t come up with anything, and she commented with several options in the bowtruckle post.
red cap — screen resolution (ca. 260k)
red cap, detail — high resolution (ca. 196k)
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons
Media: pencil sketches, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: I made an icon with a RatCreature that hasn’t heard right, both for the literal meaning (seriously, how can people on tv series, trained actors, mumble this much?), as well as the figurative one. I also felt the need for a nitpicking icon. Belatedly it occurred to me that I’m not sure English has the expression about “finding a hair in every soup” for people who nitpick to find something to complain about. Still, the imagery is fairly clear, I think, so I went ahead with my motif for visualizing the activity. You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
What?RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 60k)
What?RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Nitpicking!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 84k)
Nitpicking!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Genre/Fandom: original doodle
Characters/Pairings: cute monster
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
cute monster doodle — screen resolution (ca. 64k)
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle, Babylon 5
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons as Minbari
Media: pencil sketches, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
Minbari!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 72k)
Minbari!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Genre/Fandom: original fantasy, doodle
Characters/Pairings: dinosaur with a steampunkish raygun
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
Dinosaur with a steampunkish raygun doodle — screen resolution (ca. 68k)
Genre/Fandom: original fantasy, doodle
Characters/Pairings: werewolf
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
Werewolf doodle — screen resolution (ca. 76k)
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: –
impressions from my f-list I, Nov 4– screen resolution (ca. 128k)
impressions from my f-list II, Nov 4– screen resolution (ca. 100k)
Genre/Fandom: DCU (Sandman)
Characters/Pairings: Matthew the raven
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: Even though I thought of Matthew while drawing this, it could be just as well some random raven — I mean, I didn’t include anything Dreaming specific. Unfortunately it also isn’t a very good sketch: something about the proportions isn’t right between the body and the head, I think, but it is the first time I’ve tried drawing a raven that I recall, so taking that into account it did turn out *that* bad. I also tried to figure out flying ones, so there are a couple smaller odd birds that may or may not look like ravens too. Anyway, I have very little shame when it comes to posting slightly misshapen results. (No drawer-art here… *g*)
Genre/Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I did this for the Painted Spires Halloween challenge. While it isn’t Halloween anymore where I am, it still is elsewhere, so I hope this still counts as October posting too…
Maybe I’ve just watched the Peanuts Halloween special too often, but I couldn’t help but think that at some point John must have dressed up as WW I Flying Ace for Halloween just like Snoopy. So here’s a pencil sketch of John Sheppard on Halloween 1975, as he’s going trick-or-treating.
John Sheppard Halloween ’75, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 84 k)
John Sheppard Halloween ’75, detail — high resolution (ca. 48k)
