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I apologize for the poor quality of these pictures; the scanner in the history department just didn't want to notice my pencils at all. We were talking about plague doctors and the bird-like masks they wore in History of Medicine, hence the guy in the middle. The monster on the left has a bioluminescent lamp sticking out of his head, but he keeps it covered with a bag so he can sneak up on people. In the upper right is a harlequin looking sort of upwards, but I totally dropped the ball. His mouth is ignoring the rest of his face, but whatever. The top one's the hardest to see, but it's another little monster with a horn and a saddle. He isn't very happy.

Recent Endeavors

Remind me never to use the scanner in the History department ever again. I have to use HP Director and it doesn't like to pick up my pencils at all. Then I have to go in and mess with curves and levels in Photoshop which almost universally reduces my doodles to horrible monstrosities. Anywho I draw the guy with the long hair and the large mouth a lot. Over winter break I forgot how to draw him the right way and I'm still trying to remember how. I didn't realize I'd sketched in some chains between his arms until I just bumped the contrast. I guess he's wearing manacles. All the cool kids are doing it.
The girl on the bottom is the real reason I scanned this page. She reminds me of Envy Adams from Scott Pilgrim or something. I like the look on her face.

Speaking of monstrosities. I don't feel like talking about the guy with the tongue, but I also love the expression on the gentleman on the bottom. For whatever reason, I find surprised faces the most fulfilling to draw. I impulsively named this guy Wallace, for obvious reasons, of course. ;-)
Expect a few more in the next week or so.

for Liz Sherman:

Okay, so I admit that it's been much much longer than I said it would be. But here's a small collection of some Hellboy (are doodles considered fan art?) sketches. Is a Hellboy portrait that looks like I might have been looking at a Hellboy comic while I did it. I'm not sure if I did, because I was probably up at school when it happened, and I don't have any Hellboy comics up here, for whatever ridiculous reason. I know I was at school, because of the lower portrait of Alberto from the Motorcycle Diaries, which I most likely just finished watching when I broke out the sketchbook. I'm a huge Mignola fan, and I admire him most for his use of shadows. I think I've read interviews where he talks about how he really can't draw that well, but he uses shadows and big stark patches of them to such effect that I'm prone to say it doesn't even matter. Though I love the stories, I usually only read the actual Mignola ones, because his style is just so captivating. This picture here just has Hellboy's hand of doom in the middle. Then there's one of my earliest attempts at drawing the back of someon'es head, and then a skull with what appears to be a hat, and then more practice with guns and hands holding them.
Above is mostly a collection of black rabbits, along with a Hellboy drawn with no reference. (How'd he get into a t-shirt?) I have no idea who's extension that is at the top. There's also a frog in a bellhop uniform. I used to draw that frog a lot, but I haven't lately. Did Hellboy ever have the sign of the Holy Spirit over his head in the comics? Sorry folks, it's been a while with some of these.

Also, I really hope they make The Amazing Screw-On Head into a series.
Nuff said!
Til we meet again!