This drawing isn’t necessarily old but it is from earlier in the year so it’s not the most recent thing in the world either. I have a few stacks of drawings lying about my desk of stuff I’ve scribbled out throughout the year. I’ve finally made some time to shoot, edit, and upload a few photos of some of them.
Instead of putting them up in one massive post, I wanna queue them out on an update schedule I’ve already failed to abide by on several occasions. I’ll describe said schedule in a later post.
For now, please enjoy this maniacal looking Jake that I drew.
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Started drawing with ballpoint pen again so I wouldn’t be able to back out of any design choices that I made. Historically, I think I’ve always been pretty bad about “filling the page”.
I was going to post this on Monday yesterday, but The Universe â„¢ did everything that it could to stop me; sure enough, it succeeded.
Earlier this year, I made an attempt at logging the actual time that I’m able to work on projects. I think I was doing a fairly decent job until before the task fell by the wayside.
I initially kept up with the logs by hand before I switched over to a now long-ish note in Google Keep. I’ve posted them below starting with most recent logs at the top.
The format is: [Date] [Project] [Location] [Start Time] [End Time] [Reason for stopping (Not always logged)]
Let’s try posting a few of these on a biweekly basis. It’s no exaggeration to say I’m disastrously behind on my posting game so this is an attempt at turning a weakness into an advantage. Let’s see how it goes.
From 1 year ago
I was feeling out some brush tip sharpies ala prima on a scrap piece of ½” thick foam board. I did a finished version on Bristol shortly after but I can’t find it anywhere!
And here are some sketchbook pages from 5 years ago.
I started this sketchbook shortly after graduating AIFL. I’ll mostly be posting from this book for a good while.
Some stream of consciousness blurb about the beginning of Existence, Jake’s Mom, and a very squiggly and angry goomba.Some more squiggles and Private Investigator Kandi “Jack” Nobel.Feeling out the Mage Punk logo the good old fashion way.
Planning Ahead
While putting this post together I started thinking about going through my old books and divying out pages from them throughout every other Thursday next year starting from the first.
It’s entirely possible I’m overthinking my Thursdays but that probably just means that overthinking is really my aesthetic. Unfortunately, my room is a mess and until that mystery is figured out, I think I’ll just queue up posts and hope for the best.
Some drawings that I’ve made but never posted. The Very Pierced Chloe is definitely from this year but the others are from awhile back in no particular grouping or order. Enjoy!
A slightly older, more pierced, Chloe Elfrain.
Above: Sketches of Yuuwaku, Rei Crescendo, Sol and Lancet, Lancet Again, and some Graphics.
From Left to Right going down: Style Study (me in Blue, mysterious artist in Red); Chibi Chloe proportions doodle; Faber-Castell swatch tests; Blank Ink Pen Sky Castle Doodle; Air and Miscellaneous Forces Doodle; Micron Swatch Hatching; Little Chloe Fro Doodle
If the Artist that doodled that cutie at the top at a Blick Art Materials in Miami once please message me or leave a comment below so I can link you here. I really liked your style~Â
This is a little scene that came to mind as I put together my List of Irons in the Fire. I was thinking about what events may occur at the End of the World. I originally imagined it as a short comic, but until I have time to actually draw it, here’s a tidied up version of what I wrote for it. In this draft, I forgot to mention that The World is slowly falling to pieces and floating off into space. I’ll come up with an illustration for it later.
I’m gonna be posting scans of old drawings and sketches from my various old sketchbooks and scraps from throughout my collection. I’ll be posting them up Sundays and Wednesdays in sets of 5 until I’m all caught up to only what I’ve done most recently. The sets will mostly be older work for now but I’ll be tossing in a recent sketch here and there.