Inktober Day 21 – Quasimodo

by on October 21, 2015 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Art

Well we’re back to the head scratchers… When the Inktober Magic Tuperware container  told me to draw Quasimodo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame I wondered what version I would find myself be led by…the grizzled angry but powerful  Lon Chaney? The sad piteous Charles Laughton? Cuddly Quassi from the disney cartoon or maybe even the bitter and cynical Garou from the musical.

In the end I think I just focused on doing the bells and what I could remember of gothic architecture on the spot.

And I’m pretty sure I ended up going with Laughton.

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Happy Birthday Dizzy Gillespie

by on October 21, 2015 at 7:45 am
Posted In: Test

Once again a very happy birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie!

The biggest thing about Diz I always liked, besides his astronomical talent, was what a fun guy he was, and because of this I will never be able to resist the temptation of showing clips of him hamming it up with the Muppets. So enjoy as he performs Swing Lo Sweet Cadillac with them.

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Inktober Day 20 – Danse Macabre

by on October 20, 2015 at 9:56 am
Posted In: Art

All right I finally got a good one! The gods of causality and Inktober were gracious and the slip of paper I found in the magic Tupperware container had the words “Danse Macabre” on them!

An easy one!

Well… Easy creatively anyway… logistically? Heh heh heh…

Anyway I thought it came out okay… enjoy with some musical accompaniment.

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Inktober Day 19 – Selkie

by on October 19, 2015 at 9:36 am
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Looks like I’m stuck with Scottish Folklore with another day.

I know I keep saying I’m bound to get to all of the cool monsters for this Inktober challenge any day now, but what the heck possessed me to put a Selkie on the list? They’re not even scary! (or at least I’m not aware of them doing anything any more malevolent than the usual menfolk mischief) 

Also it looks like surf is another thing I can’t draw without a reference.

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Inktober Day 18 – Kelpie

by on October 18, 2015 at 9:35 am
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I’m really beginning to wonder if I could have written my Halloween Inktober list if i’d been drunk because I’m really wondering what in the name of the lords of causality possessed me to put the Kelpie in there.

Granted if you know the stories this is one of the most malevolent, dangerous and downright evil water spirit that Scottish Folklore ever created but visually someone is going to look at your picture and say… “it’s a horse”.

This is not helped by the fact that the horse is one of those animals I can’t draw without a minimum of five visual references in front of me.

Any way I think adding more teeth helped… a little bit.

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