Day 2: Overboard

[tealin]

I thought Life Drawing would be sketchbook enough for the day (despite the fact that, in some magical instant last summer, I somehow became incapable of keeping proportions) but I checked my mail before catching the bus home and recieved that one plaintive cry from the wilderness, which struck me with this brilliant idea:

Left-Handed Harry! The scary thing is, some of these are better than my right-handed drawings ... makes me think (as I have before) I'd be a better artist if I were left handed. This got me a few odd looks from the people on the bus but OH WELL!
Page Two - The dainty hand of the girl sitting in front of me, the back of the head of the girl sitting in front of her, an attempt at the Citadel of Kom before I figured I was too hyper and impatient to do anything layout-y, and then Left-Handed Om because it was so much fun on the previous pages. And this one is better too. :P
Bruthas! - I think I have drawn a couple ones almost identical to the top left, but it's always worth another go at developing that thumbnail I'm so in love with. And angst!Brutha (I MOCK the hyphen!exclamation) from later in the book when he's being all 'omg vorbis is nutz &im scard &i cant here my turtle!!!!1' Looks a lot like Masklin's drawing. It's the same kind of scene.

Comments

[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

I listened to the Radio adaptation of Small Gods and it totally hooked me! That tortoise, god or whatever Om was hilarious! Are you gonna put the links to the other chapters when they come?
The left-handed Harrys and co. are really funny too (surfing DD just killed me, you should make this one in big). Maybe we should give wild cries more often!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I will post links for the new chapters but I suspect that same link will update itself every week, if you want to keep it on file. Glad to see you hooked. |: )

Surfing DD, I realized as I drew it, is just WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much like Bermuda Shorts Merlin at the end of Sword in the Stone. It doesn't help that I've pictured Dumbledore as Merlin from day one...

[aisforamy]

I love your Brutha sketches! I would love to see the scene where he's tied to the turtle, and she says, "You're going to die." That was my favorite part of the whole book, I swear.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, I'll get to the more exciting scenes when I get the characters worked out ... if I EVER get a grip on Vorbis, that is. This sketchbook project is going to turn into page after page after page of Vorbis heads, just watch.

[green--desire.livejournal.com]

of course youd be a better artist left handed! Didn't you know left handed people are the best at everything awesome xD Actually though in my art class long ago we did the try to use your other hand to draw and alot of the other handed ones looked alot better, then the teacher said something aboutth e brain and crap explaining it, but I wasn't listening

[ari-enchanted.livejournal.com]

Duh, left-handed people rule.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Oh, trust me, you do not want to be a left-handed artist. The pencil smears all over the place no matter how you position the paper, I swear. I finish a drawing session and the side of my hand is completely gray from rubbing over what I've drawn. It's really annoying.

Additionally, hi. I've been following your journal for awhile but haven't yet commented (except once or twice anonymously). I love looking at your art--it was the Harry Potter stuff that originally drew me to it, but now I look forward to the Discworld stuff just as much. Is it okay if I friend you so I can keep up with your updates?

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Er, sorry, I just realized my overly-friendly overture made me look like a stalker. I'm mostly harmless, really. I'm a relatively good-natured ghoul.

Just ignore me, I'm suffering from lack of sleep.

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

Going in reverse order:

Bruthas!: Once again, I want to hug your drawing. Poor Brutha! And oh, how I love that bowl haircut and big, fat nose...

Page Two: Wow, that girl's hand is TINY. Or her cellphone is relatively large. I love the bug eyes on left handed Om!

Left Handed Harry!: ZOMG Mocker!Tealin IS SOO FUNNEH!!!1 <333

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

LOLZOMG I NOOOOO@!!!1 :DDD

Her hand was tiny.

And now, for something more intelligible...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I am very glad poor Brutha elicited pathos ... he always does, to me, in my head, but I never know if I get it down on paper correctly. :)

And you get points for mentioning Lefty Om's freaky eyes, as I found those most amusing when I accidentally drew them that way.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

Lovely artwork. The girl-crazy!Harry reminds me so much of Sanji from One Piece it's scary. Scary.

OMG OM! I love him, he's all like DOOM-AND-TROUBLE-ARE-COMING-WHERE-IS-MY-HERO!?! <3333 I finally got around to listening to the Radio 4 broadcast, and I even got a friend, who's never read Pratchett, wanting to read Small Gods because I made her listen to the radio show.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

YESSSS! I dub thee Constable Visit-the-UnPratchettified-With-Explanatory-Radio-Plays!

It's like all of a sudden there's been a One Piece explosion in my internet vicinity ... kinda freaky.

[lync180.livejournal.com]

Man, those left handed sketches are great. Oh the angst, the angst!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_etaoinshrdlu/]

i've a question: you mean your draw with your left-hand too?! i feel so worthless. please tell me you're ambi and that you can't lift cars up with the tip of your pinky?

[lepitot.livejournal.com]

HAH! I haven't laughed this much since I first saw the stick-figure version of Philosophers Stone! I haven't seen that in a while :(

And, wow...the folds on Bruthas' robes...are amazing.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

If you call those sketches 'drawing' then yes ... mostly it's just my brain sendoing messages to my left hand, and my left hand saying 'you want me to do what?' Just goes to show how much of drawing is mental and how much physical...

And no, I can't lift cars with my pinky – in fact my roommate often jokes that I have all the strength required to lift a pencil.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

You draw better with your left hand than I do with my right...

It is funny seeing you draw this kind of silly sketches and writing "LOLZ" on them. Some Makani influence?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Mostly influence from the inarticulate coded messages I recieve in my email inbox ... but Makani does encourage it. :)

Encourage using netspeak in drawings for humourous and/or satirical purposes, not ... yeah.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Nice sketches- amazing you can do this lefthanded.

How do you keep your hand from smudging the drawing? I am left handed, and when I draw I have to really watch for that.

Your Brutha is adorable, too. I like yours MUCH better than the Josh Kirby versions. Yours actually looks like a teenager. I look forward to the other sketches.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The same way I keep from smudging when I work right-handed: MAGIC. Or, in other words, having drawn for twenty-one years and spending most of it with the side of my hand blacked by graphite. Somehow I learned how to get that to happen less, but don't ask me how. I don't know how the principle would be any different depending which hand you used, at least with drawings; I understand how lefties would smudge writing because of the left-to-right direction of Western script but drawings can face any direction you want and you can draw from left to right or from right to left.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'm just not smart enough to start from the right and work left (d'oh!).

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

It must be a good magical gift you have. I just drew the hanging of Alfred Spangler while waiting for a file to upload here, and my left hand is quite colorful now. I guess practice makes it easier to keep the hands clean. Maybe I have to try drawing something right handed and see if that smudges!

Another question for you- have you ever drawn left handed characters?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ooh, can I see? (the drawing, not your hand, of course :)

Left-handed characters? I imagine so ... I'm horrible at just using whatever hand looks best to do an action as opposed to thinking what hand they would use. Plus it's easier to use your left hand for reference.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

All righty. I had to run to Kinkos and get this done since the guy who scans at our office was busy. I also added in the rest of them I wound up drawing today (there were a LOT of files to download).

I will send them to you by email. Hope you don't find them too scary >;-)

And I don't have a digital camera but my hand looks like I broke the fifth finger it is that black and blue now.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Hey there.

I also did post this and some other Going Postal (no pun intended) at my LIve Journal. My email was acting quite nasty, so if you did not get it, you can check it out at my live journal (thefordmustang)

Sinister

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

I'd give you a left-handed compliment, but that would be unfair. My favorite part are hearts in Harry's eyes.

A²

Re: Sinister

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

Dude, Left-Handed Harry could TOTALLY be made into a mood expression set for LJ. :P Awesome drawings; I can barely write left-handed.

Also, have you ever read the Sabriel Trilogy by Garth Nix? I'ce only read the first book, but it was pretty good. It seems like something you'd like.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I have read it, and did like it, for the most part ... I think there is one whole piece of artwork from it on my site. Aha, here it is:

The Abhorsen house.
My sister absolutely loves these books ... I like them enough, but not really quite enough to draw from them, which makes me a bit of an anomaly in our circle because every artist she's met who has read them just wants to churn out tons of concept art. Maybe I haven't because they're her 'territory' or something...

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I always liked the Disreputable Dog more than any of the other characters. I've never felt like drawing anything from them, though.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

That was meant to be in reply to your comment about the Abhorsen trilogy.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's ... what I figured. ;)

completely random

[soapdinosaur.livejournal.com]

I followed the link to the "plaintive cry" and just wanted to let you know that your comment: "is this a question or a statement!!!!!" made me laugh. At 5am. Again.

Re: completely random

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's m'job. ;)

I know I shouldn't be mean like that, but ... really!

[(Anonymous)]

Your Brutha is simply adorable. He seriously makes me want to squeeze him... between the slight chubbyness and the flat nose and his great expressions... you are so talented!

Brutha

[ianfinerty.livejournal.com]

Brutha is such an interesting and hard character to draw. He seems almost stupid to some people but at the same time manages to carry a deep down sort of wisdom which has come from years of doing what is right because he doesn't know how to do anthing else. You manage to capture that feeling with your Brutha, especially the sitting one, where he looks torn up by some emotion.

On a different and slightly morre off-topic note, whilst reading Thud I realised that the Long Dark (the dwarf mine sign for a mine)is the same symbol as used by the London Underground Trains. Well there you go.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hey, I did too! see? (http://twirlynoodle.livejournal.com/78778.html)

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I wish I could say something radically more insightful or interesting than what everyone else has already posted, but I can't: it is RIDICULOUSLY unfair that you can draw REALLY WELL with your left hand (that was confirmed by an amazed Joe Moshier, whom I shared the drawings with, who was really impressed with everything else on this and your other sites, by the way - couldn't get enough, clicking like a fiend!) and the drawings were HILARIOUS not because they were amusingly bad but really REALLY funny! HA!! SO charming, so simple and yet well-structured, like the best cartoons! (you've probably read how a lot of the designers on "The Nightmare Before Christmas forced themselves to draw left-handed to get that quirky, off-kilter "Tim Burton"-esque quality) And your right-handed drawings of the Citadel and Brutha (OK, my first thought reading that name, like Tann's, was rather politically incorrect, too - tee hee) were pretty decent too...aw, they were awesome! Just like I'd imagine them (really enjoyed that radio play, BTW - thanks!) - so maybe you shouldn't give up drawing right-handed after all...:) (but think: with a little more practice, I bet you could draw BOTH-handed and work twice as fast!)