Sketch Riot

February: Day 29!

2012-02-29T16:45:00.000Z

Hooray! A whole month of daily drawings, of varying quality. Wish I’d picked a year where February didn’t have 29 days :/

Now, for someone who calls himself an animator, I should be doing several sketches - or even pages of sketches - every day, regardless of how many I upload. But I really did struggle with getting these done regularly; I could come out with all these excuses about kids and housework and cooking and all the other things I have to take care of as well as drawing, but I think the real problem I have is laziness!

Finally, My friends Chris and Helen are getting married today (actually, they probably are by now); I couldn’t attend the ceremony but I hope they had a great day!

February: Day 28

2012-02-28T16:40:00.000Z

Oh look! It’s a... er... yeah, I have no idea what it’s meant to be.

February: Day 27

2012-02-27T12:09:00.000Z

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles was my favourite cartoon as a little kid... so yeah, why wouldn’t I want do draw a fucked-up shitty version of one of the main characters??

February: Day 26

2012-02-26T12:06:00.000Z

Another Mike suggestion: “Bob stealing stuff” (Bob is a character from his webcomic, Steve & Bob

February: Day 25

2012-02-25T12:04:00.000Z

Mike suggested that I draw “at least 3 characters from Misfits”, but I had enough trouble trying to get make this look anything like Nathan, so all you get is Nathan.

Febraury: Day 24

2012-02-24T11:50:00.000Z

Random girl doodle

February: Day 23

2012-02-23T19:05:00.000Z

February: Day 22

2012-02-22T20:46:00.001Z

Spent a long time online last night looking up all the crazy monsters in Resident Evil, so I decided to draw a classic: the Licker

February: Day 21

2012-02-21T20:44:00.000Z

Just... couldn’t be arsed.

February: Day 20

2012-02-20T23:49:00.000Z

Another Mike classic: “Super Ash Kart”

February: Day 19

2012-02-19T23:47:00.000Z

Mattkind suggested his character, Lil Gina, the “lame witch”

February: Day 18

2012-02-18T23:45:00.000Z

Mike’s suggestion: “Kryten from Red Dwarf wearing a hat (try and imagine such a thing!)”

For you see, rather recently, Mike and I went to see an episode of the new series of Red Dwarf being filmed! And lo, in that episode Kryten did verily wear a hat.

Not a hat as shit as this mind you.

February: Day 17

2012-02-17T00:00:00.000Z

Didn’t know what to draw today, so.... gunfist.

February: Day 16

2012-02-16T21:31:00.000Z

Suggestion from Timothy: “The Grim Reaper in a bikini”

February: Day 15

2012-02-15T22:42:00.000Z

Alex had another suggestion for me - that I draw this character, “Freckle”. He knows that I dislike that comic. Git.

Obviously I had to guess what colour he might be...

February: Day 14

2012-02-14T15:46:00.000Z

Happy Valentine’s day! Only to my fiance though. The rest of you can fuck off.

I know, late uploading again, but I was to busy being loved up yesterday!

February: Day 13

2012-02-13T23:57:00.001Z

“Mario & Luigi holding hands”

Mike suggested it, but this is probably not what he had in mind :3

February: Day 12

2012-02-12T11:01:00.000Z

Super late posting this one, Kei had a lot of work to do last night so I didn’t have time.

No suggestions today, just your average angry dog smoking a cigar.

February: Day 11

2012-02-11T23:10:00.000Z

“A duel between a cotton bud and a chocolate covered finger.”

I should probably stop drawing Mike’s suggestions.

February: Day 10

2012-02-10T23:30:00.000Z

“An aeroplane with lady legs”

Oh Mike....

February: Day 9

2012-02-09T21:55:00.000Z

Another gem from Mike: “A duel between a hippogriff and a cow with a human face”.

Seriously man, get help

February: Day 8

2012-02-08T01:30:00.000Z

Bit late uploading this one! Had a busy day, between taking the baby for his injections, dealing with the grumpy consequences later, and Kei coming home with a cold!

Missus Patches suggested “any character from The Adventures of Tintin”, so I picked Captain Haddock, the only character I could vaguely stand.

(NB: changed the date on this post to 8/2/12, even though it’s gone midnight, just to keep the posts organised!)

February: Day 7

2012-02-07T18:22:00.000Z

Alex very cheekily suggested I draw “A homosexual”. So with that I drew Alan Carr.

Sorry Alan.

February: Day 6

2012-02-06T18:29:00.001Z

Leigh very unkindly suggested that I draw “Gogeta”, a character from the awful Dragonball series, which is poor both as a manga and an anime.

February: Day 5

2012-02-05T23:47:00.000Z

Another stellar suggestion from Mike: “A space cat (with fishbowl head and everything)”

February: Day 4

2012-02-04T21:00:00.001Z

Suggestion from Krystal: “A fat knight in a small suit of armour.”

February: Day 3

2012-02-03T20:49:00.001Z

Yet another mentile suggestion from Mike: “A woman wearing bras. Lots of bras.”

Also: colour? Well, turns out lots of other people have decided to do a drawing a day in February, by which I mean A FULLY FINISHED ILLUSTRATION. And it’s making me look fucking stupid. Also, the last pencil drawing I tried to scan came out all faint and crappy, so this is drawn in Photoshop. MAD WACOM SKILLZ YO.

Promise tomorrow’s drawing will be a suggestion from someone else!

February: Day 2

2012-02-02T10:44:00.001Z

Another bizarre suggestion from Mike: “Superman with a living cat’s head sewn on to his shoulder”. Get help Mike.

February: Day 1

2012-02-01T16:03:00.001Z

“Aquaman not doing very much”, as suggested by Mike....

Overflow

2012-02-01T14:46:00.000Z

I did decide that I’d be starting my month of daily sketches today (and announced it on deviantART), but I have another post to make first.

So here’s the thing: when I was doing the daily sketches last time, I was aiming for at least a year’s worth, but I wasn’t keeping count as I drew; it was only when it came to uploading them on the blog that I assigned them a number, and knew how many days along I was. When it came to February, I knew I’d done a year, but because I was behind in scanning them I didn’t know exactly where to stop... thus, I overshot the mark a little. Here are those other sketches!

The girl in the middle is meant to be Black Canary; I thought the drawing in general was ok but the face I couldn’t get right. I still hate it. The guy in the bottom right corner is a member of Special Judicial Squad, from the Judge Dredd comic (very hard to find reference for those guys...); the guy next to him is Green Arrow, one of the crappest superheroes ever conceived. Can you tell that I was struggling for ideas at this point? Oh, and you know how I’m fond of drawing rubbish visual puns, like Fighter Pilot and Cricket Bat? Well in this image there is a truck. Full of monsters. I even labelled it for you. I think the rest is self-explanatory!

Year One

2012-01-29T19:35:00.000Z

That’s it! I’ve finally scanned and uploaded a year’s worth of daily drawings. I was surprised to realise that I stopped scanning/uploading them in January last year, and didn’t get around to finishing until NOW... in my mind, it was only a few weeks ago

So yeah, I’m gonna leave the daily drawing thing alone for a while; mainly because scanning them, resizing them, cropping them, adjusting the levels, and saving them with the appropriate file names, and then making each of them into a blog post and uploading them.... is a colossal pain in the arse. Also, I got a 3DS for my birthday and Resident Evil: Revelations yesterday, so.... screw you art!

For now

(Seriously though, I will continue putting up art at AutoCorrect and deviantART, and will maybe do daily drawings for a month here or there.... I need to keep practicing don’t I?

2011-10-20T13:51:00.001+01:00

http://ping.fm/NNMgV

2011-10-20T10:31:00.001+01:00

DOES THIS THING WORK NAOW

365 - Rubber Johnny

2011-01-23T09:27:00.000Z

364 - Judge Dredd III

2011-01-22T19:25:00.000Z

I’ve had a look and this is the third Judge Dredd drawing that I’ve put up here (that I’m aware of). He’s so much fun to draw!

363 - Power Ranger

2011-01-21T19:18:00.000Z

362 - Poor Horseman - Famine

2011-01-20T19:12:00.000Z

361 - Poor Horseman: Pestilence

2011-01-19T19:06:00.000Z

360 - Poor Horseman: Death

2011-01-18T19:04:00.000Z

359 - Poor Horsemen: War

2011-01-17T01:08:00.000Z

358 - Igor

2011-01-16T01:06:00.000Z

358 - Mr. Fantastic

2011-01-15T01:05:00.000Z

357 - Captain America

2011-01-14T01:05:00.000Z

356 - Iron Fist

2011-01-12T01:01:00.000Z

355 - ManBearPig

2011-01-12T00:58:00.000Z

354 - Dairy Queen

2011-01-11T00:54:00.000Z

So apparently Dairy Queen is this thing they have in the Americas?

353 - Weathered

2011-01-10T00:52:00.000Z

352 - Jolly Holly

2011-01-09T00:49:00.000Z

351 - Dreadful Deckar

2011-01-08T00:47:00.000Z

350 - Romeo

2011-01-07T00:46:00.000Z

349 - Punch Up

2011-01-06T13:42:00.000Z

Two of my crap characters having a poorly drawn fight

348 - Mutant Mess

2011-01-05T13:40:00.000Z

347 - Devilish Dame

2011-01-04T15:20:00.000Z

346 - Demonic Dude

2011-01-03T15:18:00.000Z

345 - Stay Puft

2011-01-02T15:16:00.000Z

344 - New Year

2011-01-01T15:15:00.000Z

343 - Super Old

2010-12-31T15:12:00.000Z

342 - Crabby Tripod

2010-12-30T15:06:00.000Z

341 - Fighter Pilot

2010-12-29T15:05:00.000Z

340 - Navy Seal

2010-12-28T15:04:00.000Z

339 - Alternate Cat Burglar

2010-12-27T00:01:00.000Z

338 - Cat Burglar

2010-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

337 - Police Dog

2010-12-24T23:59:00.000Z

336 - Cricket Bat

2010-12-23T23:58:00.000Z

335 - Corrupt

2010-12-22T23:57:00.000Z

334 - Scabious

2010-12-21T23:55:00.000Z

333 - Horse Shoes

2010-12-20T23:54:00.000Z

332 - Metal Dude

2010-12-19T23:53:00.000Z

331 - Magic Guy

2010-12-18T23:52:00.000Z

330 - Karate Guy

2010-12-17T23:50:00.000Z

329 - Biker Guy

2010-12-16T23:48:00.000Z

328 - Hip Guy

2010-12-15T23:46:00.000Z

327 - Think Tank

2010-12-14T23:46:00.000Z

326 - Crap Snowman

2010-12-12T23:45:00.000Z

325 - Doughnut

2010-12-11T23:43:00.000Z

324 - Jagrex II

2010-12-10T23:38:00.000Z

323 - On Your Marks...

2010-12-09T23:36:00.000Z

322 - Back to the Mists

2010-12-09T13:14:00.000Z

321 - Car Park

2010-12-08T13:13:00.000Z

320 - Space Dude

2010-12-07T13:05:00.000Z

319 - Telephone Pole

2010-12-06T12:59:00.000Z

318 - Mecha Thing

2010-12-05T12:58:00.000Z

317 - Foot Soldier

2010-12-04T12:56:00.000Z

316 - Horse Doctor

2010-12-03T15:34:00.000Z

315 - Ghostly

2010-12-02T15:33:00.000Z

314 - Cyborg Hand

2010-12-01T15:12:00.000Z

313 - RoboPoodle

2010-11-30T15:07:00.000Z

312 - Powergirl

2010-11-29T21:43:00.000Z

311 - Darkseid

2010-11-28T21:41:00.000Z

310 - Hush

2010-11-27T21:40:00.000Z

309 - Clayface

2010-11-26T21:39:00.000Z

308 - Green Lantern

2010-11-25T17:50:00.000Z

307 - Scarecrow

2010-11-24T17:49:00.000Z

306 - Cowardly Lion

2010-11-23T17:28:00.000Z

305 - Mrs. Treason

2010-11-22T17:27:00.000Z

304 - Steambot Gent

2010-11-21T17:24:00.000Z

303 - Cyclopean Cranium

2010-11-20T17:13:00.000Z

302 - Meganeck

2010-11-19T17:12:00.000Z

301 - Grotesque

2010-11-18T17:11:00.000Z

300 - Count Dracula

2010-11-17T16:52:00.000Z