Thursday, December 5, 2024

sNOw

We were supposed to get up to five inches of snow overnight. We got less than one soggy inch. This quick scribble expresses my severe underwhelment (is that even a word? Haha).




Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Orbs to Robot

I was drawing randomly, and wound up with a bunch of textured spheres. Later in the day, I still had the drawing itch, so I expanded upon the original scribble, and turned it into a robot pondering a work of art in a museum.







Saturday, November 23, 2024

Toikey

I wanted to do at least one Thanksgiving-themed drawing so I came up with this one. I've done the whole 'turkey with an axe' thing before, but it's always fun!





Monday, November 18, 2024

Dem Boots

Sometimes you see something and you just want to draw it. This is Minju, one of the members of the K-Pop band Illit. In their music video for the song "Tick-Tack" she has on these giant pink boots, and they just add charm to the whole thing, so I drew her last night in a cartoony way.








Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Jack O'Little


I bought a mini-pumpkin on the way to the lake today, and after my usual walk in the fine autumn air, I carved myself a little jack o'lantern.








Monday, September 30, 2024

Friday, September 6, 2024

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Lost in the City

Beginnings of a drawing of a newbie Jack O'Lantern in the big city, being accosted by a 'helpful local'. There's no catch, right?




Robot and Pumpkin II

Well, it was fun for awhile, but I got bored with this, so here is the final work on the robot who carves pumpkins.



Sunday, August 25, 2024

Robot and Pumpkin I

I haven't done much drawing lately so yesterday I decided to jump into something random. And since the fall weather has been creeping up the last few days (sunny, but dry), I decided to draw something Halloween-related.

For me robots and Jack O'Lanterns are the most fun, so I am combining them for the current go-round:


Free hand with Pigma Micron.


Thursday, August 1, 2024

More Block Men

Well, I've lost interest in this drawing pretty rapidly. Half-hearted progress every few days, and this is as far as I've gotten since the previous post.

The Block Men are colored, as well as Lamprey. Also, Wildfire and Colossal Boy's leg are done, and I added Phantom Girl in the lower left (her arm is phasing through a Block Man to slow down his interdimensional tech). Lastly, you can see the pencil outlines of other undefined Legion members, one on the ground in temporary defeat, and three more flight-rininging their way to intercept the second trio of Block Men. It was a fun idea, but on to something else...




Monday, July 8, 2024

Legion vs The Block Men

My latest drawing of the Legion of Super-Heroes, this time versus a self-created team of bad guys, the terraforming Block Men (I had abetter name but I forgot it as I slept).

The Block Men are ancient synthezoids, dropped in trios on planets to be terraformed. They are nearly indestructible, have the strength of a Daxamite/Kryptonian, and have eye-like receptors on 3 sides of their heads, making them hard to surprise. A trio was dropped accidentally on an inhabited world, and are engaging the Legion. Startlingly, a second trio is being dropped planetside as the battle rages!

Left to right: so far, the Block Men are fighting with Lamprey, Wildfire and Colossal Boy, while (unnamed) is unconscious on the ground. The second trio of Block Men is coming in from the upper left. More to come as I make progress...


Sunday, June 16, 2024

Scribble

The rest of the family is headed west to Washington state for my niece's wedding, so I made a chart/to-do list for the week they are gone. In the lower right hand corner I drew a little self-portrait for the coming week's heat wave (or 'heat bubble' as the media has dubbed it).



Friday, June 7, 2024

The Legion in Japan

Finally done! I finished everything I wanted to do, with final shading, coloring tweaks and other miscellaneous adjustments. It was a lot of fun, and I tried to do a little bit every day.

Character notes about "my" Legion of Super-Heroes: Lamprey (green, upper right) graduated from the Academy right onto the main team. Gas Girl (lower left, renamed Vapor Lass) migrated from Lallor, and is now of Japanese descent (hence the visit to Mt. Fuji and other places during cherry blossom season). And there is a new Ferro Lad (to the right of Vapor Lass), who holds true to his creator's original design (nixed by racist editors).

For those who don't know the team, from upper left: Invisible Kid II, Sun Boy, Polar Boy, Wildfire, Lamprey. Vapor Lass, Ferro Lad, Lighning Lass, Shrinking Violet and Blok.



Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Almost Done...

I drew in Mt. Fuji so the background wouldn't look so bare, and did some more coloring. Only a few more tweaks to go: the sky, misc. inking, and a few more spot colors.



Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Not Quite Life

After a few days of drawing from actual photos I drew this one from out of the air (no photo for reference):



Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Legion Crowd - Home Stretch

I got a lot more coloring done over the last couple of days, especially Blok (lower right, big stone guy). All that's really left is to figure out the background: either more buildings, a setting sun, or perhaps Mount Fuji (haha).




Saturday, May 25, 2024

LD Again

Last night I drew the same woman twice. It's supposed to be Bae Su-Ji (Bae Suzy, from "Doona!" and other shows). Definitely needs work!




Tuesday, May 21, 2024

More LDs

Last night I drew the same woman (different from the previous post) twice. I'm going to work on faces for awhile, in between my usual super heroes and sword & sorcery drawings.




Monday, May 20, 2024

Life Drawings

Last night I decided to try to draw the same face three times in a row, to see how similar they might be.



I think there was improvement as I went.