23 Days of Halloween: Day 15- Ghostly Timekeeper

This was another character courtesy of the cool character randomizer at this link. 

23 Days of Halloween: Day 7- Demon

...and his little robot friend.

I came up with this strange pair with the help of a great site, Pickle Kitty's Character Design Randomizer! This site will give you a different combination of character attributes each time you visit and really helps people like me who tend to doodle the same things over and over again. The prompts I got for this one were

Body Type: Short, built

Clothing: Leather Armor

Head Type: Demonic

Weapon/Accesory: Familiar, Robot

 

Give it a try yourself!

Back to School (pt 2)

Just a few more doodles of monster students, in the vein of Monsters University.

Back to school

Several weeks ago, I saw Monsters University, and what really stood out to me was how they took the very simple appealing designs of Monsters Inc and just subtly "plussed" everything with interesting textures. It made me enjoy the sequel on a whole other level- visually it was very engrossing.

The next day I felt like doodling some Monster students. These aren't from the film, of course, though some did start to stray close to familiar characters and I had to make drastic changes as the drawing progressed. I hate when that happens!

Girl Friday

Been at the pool a lot lately. Hope everyone's summer is going well.

 

Girls

Beastly Friend

Little Old Ladies

I went through Google and doodled some old ladies to try to improve my caricature skills, which aren't too sharp. I'm happy with this first one, but the others feel a bit clumsy.

 I find that I can't do a caricature in just one pass. The first attempt, like those above, usually just yields a simplification of what I'm seeing- it's a bit cartoony maybe, but doesn't feel exaggerated enough, sometimes not at all. However, I find that once I've done that first obvervational drawing, I'm a bit more comfortable with the subject. Having already converted it into a line drawing it's a bit easier to then take that and exaggerate it as I've done below.

The one on the left was my first attempt, from a photo. The second was done without the photo, just using the first one as reference and then attempting to caricature it. Admittedly, the second one probably doesn't bear much resemblance to the original photo, but it feels like a more pleasing drawing to me. Once again, the lesson here, that I keep having to remind myself it seems, is that just because it's not right, doesn't mean you can't fix it.

Animal sketchdump

 

Rhino Dragon

Friday Girls

Questionable Companion

Another Cruise inspired sketch.

Dr. Sketchy's- Dani Shock

These are from a Dr. Sketchy session a few weeks ago- the theme was Steampunk. The model was Dani Shock. In honor of Easter, I've covered up the naughty bits with little bunny rabbits.

 

Skeptical

This is a few weeks old now, but was one of the first drawings done with my brush pen that I really liked.

Foxy

There's something strange about this restaurant...

Jungle Friends

I had been doodling elephants for a bit, and somehow this evolved.