TART AND HORSE

Today: finished off this horse-based illustration while watching two episodes of Game of Thrones (because people keep telling me it's good, so I thought I should get around to watching it), did a bit more folio shuffling around, and successfully made my first ever lemon tart (a trial run for taking to my sister's on Christmas day). All in all a reasonably productive day.

 

Hopefully I can get another couple of drawings done before the end of the week. Possibly.

MOUNTAIN PORTAL

 

Currently working on this, intended as a gift: a mountain-portal-window thing. Looks like today is going to filled with inking around tiny little circles of matter.

SELF

Side note: that dragon is there by accident - it's been lurking in my pile of Stuff I'm Working on and happened to be lying underneath at that time, although now I'm kind of thinking of somehow incorporating the act of drawing dragons...

MAPPING LEGBA

Only a few more drawings to go for this current book-thing. I think I finally managed to figure out how to tackle this particular character (based on Legba). He kind of evaded me for a little while. And here's my laptop being used as a lightbox for a bit of resizing, because I'm all technical like that.

WEDDING GIFT: IN PROGRESS

BUT ARE THEY MICROSCOPIC?

I've been thinking about dragons from a bird's-eye view, contained within circular boundaries. Maybe microscopic dragons, swimming or somehow suspended in some sort of (primordial?) solution in a dish under a microscope... Or dragons as vast, vast maps, embedded with contour lines [NOTE TO SELF: like Peripheral Inhabitants; dragons of knowledge collection?] or whose bodies are made of Universal Matter.

 

Whatever it's all about (other than a spot of procrastination), I started doodling these ones the other night.

WEDDING GIFT: MAPPINGS

The initial mappings of my sister's wedding gift. I think I want to start working on a slightly larger scale. It was quite liberating working on this piece, although that may have been due to the fact I got to draw many, many circles on this one. Did I ever mention I have a thing about drawing circles..?

WOLF: REDONE

This one's getting a bit of a redo today. It was the ears, mostly. The ears were annoying me.

VERY NEARLY ALMOST

Just finished off the eighteenth illustration, which means I'm nearly almost halfway there. Next stop: cheetahs!

GATEKEEPER

Yesterday was one of those days where every line you draw is just...wrong. But I stayed sitting and drawing, determined to get my teeth into the next batch of drawings despite not feeling much hope for anything of use to emerge. It took pretty much all of my willpower not to just cave in and draw dragons (or bake cake) in a bid to pretend I was being 'productive'.

 

It resulted in this little dude. He's a gatekeeper - one of those fleeting characters in the book. He looks a little bit haughty and like he takes pride in his appearance. I might throw a peacock in the final drawing too, because ever since drawing a tiny one as a detail for chapter five I've been itching to sneak another one in there somewhere.

UNBLOCKING

Had a spot of drawing-block. Ended up working on another dragon. Eh.

MONDAY SNEAK PEEK

 

Another sneak peek at an illustration in progress.

STUFF IN A BREAD BUN

 

Yesterday went from drawing a fairy crouching on a well, to drawing fast food. Nice little jump in subject matter right there. I have to admit I had to consult the Oracle (otherwise known as t'internet) because I am a vegetarian who grew up in a town lacking in a McDonald's and didn't really know what a McChicken Sandwich and a Big Mac actually looked like in detail, other than "stuff in a bread bun". Now I know.

 

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LIKE A MINIATURE BOAT

My sister's thirtieth birthday is coming up. Looks like I'm giving her a tiny, palm-sized dragon who's quite fond of water.

OH HELLO, ORBS

Another two illustrations I've been/am working on. It'd been a while since I'd drawn anything based solely around planetary-orb type things, so the one of the left reminded me how therapeutic that can be. I still like drawing circles.

ON AN OVERCAST THURSDAY

I don't know what it is about tree-filled skylines, but I like them right now. And there's a dragon for good measure.

IN-FLIGHT

MOTHSPIRATION

 

I was working on this crown-type thing one night. There was a moth hammering itself against the paper light shade. Not a huge one that resembled some form of flying rodent, but it was big enough to make a significant thudding sound. I haven't really drawn anything unrelated to this project for the past few months, but now I find myself wanting to draw symmetrical moths. Just wanted to make a note of that.

THE DRAGON MADE ME DO IT

I had planned on getting an early night last night, but failed due to dragon-drawing. Eh.

WRINKLES

I wasn't too sure how this character was going to turn out, but I think she ended up as one of my favourites to work on. It seems I like drawing wrinkles.