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..?

11AM vs. 8PM

 

top: 11am sun, waiting for the bus to work

bottom: 8pm post-rain rising forest fog, after getting off the bus home

WOLF: REDONE

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

TENTACULAR UNDERWATER EYEBALLS

from the bridge, looking down

I don't know what this plant is, but it's sprouting up all along the river, in clusters that remind me ever so slightly of those strange little eyeball plants that grew out of the walls in Labyrinth (as seen in this scene).

CHEETAHS: I HEAR THEY RUN QUITE FAST

 

Stumbling around t'interwebs for videos of cheetahs in motion, I came across this video by Gregory Wilson:

 

Cheetahs on the Edge--Director's Cut from Gregory Wilson on Vimeo.

 

It's a little bit mesmerising, even if it does unnerve me slightly how the cheetah's head doesn't seem to move at all...

VERY NEARLY ALMOST

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

LET THERE BE PEACOCKS

To the left we have the original tiny (glass) peacock that somehow sneaked its way into an illustration, and to the right we have the one I said might happen here. Next on the list we have antique weaponry, striped tomatoes, and wolves (which completely explains why I've spent the past two days drawing baby dragons).

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.