At then end of every school year [or each semester, now that I'm in college], I look through my notebooks for interesting drawings and the like. I think this particular batch all came from a history notebook; it's some poses for tyjexes and their counterparts for humans, clothing for Octo, a yawning stick-figure dragon, and a swirly dragonoid head. Whee.
More schoolstuff: the head/face page. Most of these are random, though a couple are actual characters of mine. The two "art characters" [people who are only in my art so far] are Tallok: top row, third from the right; and a nameless teacher-type who'll probably have a story some day: the ponytailed guy above the goofy-face date. The scribbly stuff is Japanese for "boring" [couresty of a certain Japanese exchange student :) ], and "gnirob" is "boring" in Gorf Nital [Frog Latin]. The story characters are the people in the experimental covers for Both of Me, at the bottom left. If I did do a cover for it I'd probably use the big design, except with the minor characters along the top like in the design on the right. In case you're wondering, the writing on Kenton's shirt says "I went to Gentronics Cloning Center, and all I got was this lousy tattoo." If you've read the story, you'll know what that's referring to. If not, ha, I say. Read the story. >:)
Pix from my physics notebook, featuring one of my most successful squiggles to date. It resulted in a cool amphibious alien creature that's lots of fun to draw. The unicorn horn and word bubble were contributed by someone else at my table, as were the gnome, the Gaelic writing, and about half of each face at the top. The quote at the bottom is from a couple of other classmates. Physics class was a lot of fun.
More randomness from my history notes: some pix of Mal, two frustration drawings [a dragon grawing at a line in the notebook and a dragon morph venting], an attempt to duplicate one of my other drawings from memory, and two drawings of photos in the dictionary under my desk in history class [a gecko and a genet]. They were on the same page, they looked cool, and I was bored. No other incentive needed.
And last-but-not-least, some bigger pix from my notes. Featured are an iguana morph named Sigmund, after a character in a progressive story from creative writing class; Stet from The Race [a moving pic], wearing a more casual outfit and sitting at a sketchy desk-thing; and Tad the bug morph. And his feet, again. They were fun to draw.
It's Mal, the cool plant elemental guy! This is the first picture of him. The inspiration came from our bathroom wallpaper, which is a bunch of intertwining leaves and flowers. One section of leaves was arranged like this: a leafy guy kneeling.
I've been doing a lot of drawings of tyjex clothes. This page has a shirt idea and a tyjex trying on a hat borrowed from a cowboy-type human.
I get character ideas from the weirdest places. My sweater was lying rumpled on the floor, and one part looked like this. The other sketches are exploring the idea further. He looks to be a fun little fellow :)
When I don't know what to draw, I tend to draw miscellaneous faces. One of these was drawn with a visual reference. See if you can guess which one it is.
I just realized how much praying mantises look like 'taurs. That's really cool.
A rather old notebook drawing; it's a gargoyle guy just ... posing.
Nobody says dragonriding is easy, especially when the dragon is in a playful mood. This was a fun sketch.
Heh, once upon a time my mom and I were doing Squiggles, and I got a pic of these two mismatched fellows. I liked it so much that I decided to draw them again in more detail.
On the left is some snout-drawing practice, and on the right is a bit of art therapy. The computer wasn't cooperating, which made me dearly want to hit it. I settled for drawing this instead [I like how it turn out, actually]. The writing cut off at the bottom says "Suffer this!" It's sort of a shorter, less cliche version of "suffer my wrath." |