Inktober Day 13 – Kitsune

by on October 13, 2015 at 10:02 am
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The one consolation I have in some of the stuff the Inktober tupperware container has made me draw this month is that come the end of the month I’ll have a ton of easy and fun concepts to do.

Not that I have a problem with drawing that sultry mysterious fox yokai the Kitsune but I have to admit I feel just a little guilty that the one modern cultural translation of “seductive lady the lone samurai met in the woods”, before I had my coffee, was streetwalker.

Still I guess Johns are good eating.
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Inktober Day 12 – Monster Under the Bed

by on October 12, 2015 at 9:45 am
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So today the Inktober scraps of paper told me to draw a Monster Under The Bed… I don’t really have much to say about this other than it took me longer than it should and from reading all of Discworld twice that in order to ward off the monster properly every proper blanket must have fluffy bunnies.
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Inktober Day 11- Dragon

by on October 11, 2015 at 6:20 pm
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I found myself cringing when the tupperware container told me I had to draw a dragon because I just couldn’t get the image of Alan Lee’s picture of Smaug sleeping on all of that gold out of my head and I couldn’t think of anything else. For a while I thought that I’d rationalize that the slip of paper didn’t say what kind of dragon and go with a Chinese dragon (I’d just watched a pretty good version of Journey to the West and the scene going to the dragon king’s under sea palace was sticking in my mind) But somehow that didn’t seem right. Sure Chinese Dragons are still monsters but they don’t seem like scary halloween monsters.

Ultimately out of desperation I fell back on comedy. So here we have a dragon expecting it’s annual tribute getting a decoy princess.

Somewhere a village is going to burn.dragon20151011

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Inktober Day 9

by on October 9, 2015 at 10:33 am
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This might be my first turkey of the series. I’d had an interesting workout that involved being about fifty yards short of hitting a car that had just made a u-turn so epically sloppy it blocked the bike lane and screwing up my time big time.

So when I finally got out of the shower and had my breakfast and coffee, the magic Inktober tub told me that I had to draw the Vanishing Hitchhiker… I suppose I might have been more inspired if hadn’t already done a female ghost earlier this week or could have thought of a composition that wasn’t suspiciously similar to my Mothman sketch from last year… So I guess I kind of phoned the is one in…

Sorry

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Inktober Day 8

by on October 8, 2015 at 9:11 am
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The gods of Inktober have been fickle and demanded I draw two youkai in a row.

This time I had to draw Yuki-Onna and since I didn’t sleep very well last night and wasn’t feeling particularly creative, drew my version of Yuki-Onna a thoroughly modern and terrifying elemental spirit who, when not taking an interest in sleepy drummers, haunts the frozen alleyways of the inner city, looking under bridges, doorways and broken heat vents for the defenseless and exposed.
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