What's This, Drawings?

[tealin]

I rererediscovered* last night that drawing can be nice and theraputic.



A more developed sketch based (from memory) on the doodle I did at work yesterday. I'm a bit surprised by my sudden breakthrough on Nobby; it makes me think I'm stealing this design from somewhere. That feeling was particularly strong regarding the sketch of young (Night Watch-era) Nobbs, which felt like I was tracing it off the back off my head. Any ideas? Besides Gorillaz? That was deliberate.


Drew this after watching the first five minutes of CSI:Yellow** which starred some prototypically repulsive young women. I don't know if it's an affectation, or a side effect of the anorexia and obsessive dental whitening, but they all seemed to have their mouths set in a way that was reminiscent of an Inca mummy, which I couldn't resist mocking.


I've been rereading the first two books in the Bartimaeus Trilogy so that I can read the third which I haven't gotten around to yet but which is, apparently, very good. They don't seize my artistic mind like they do my sister's, but here's a try at Nathaniel and Simon Lovelace (who, after much effort, managed not to look like Milo). If Nathaniel looks familiar, it's because my drawing of Duncan Quagmire started out as a drawing of him (until he started looking too nice) and he also bears a startling resemblance to young Tom Riddle ... more than just visually. There's a scene where he spends the night on the street and comes back a dissheveled mess – Bartimaeus° takes on the shape of one of his former young masters to annoy Nathaniel but what would really annoy him might be the following:





*This is actually an approximation. A more accurate representation would have to be shortened to 're⁴²discovered.'
**Actually CSI:Miami – they use a yellow filter on everything, to make it look hot I guess. Amused by my observation, my roommate (who watches a lot more TV than I do) now refers to the different CSIs by colour, like those Pokemon games from a few years ago. CSI:Blue is New York, but the original (Las Vegas) is lacking in a primary colour so we call it CSI:Brown. We tried to think of what city in the world might possibly warrant a red filter on everything, but I don't imagine they'd start up a CSI:St George ... it's too close to Las Vegas and nowhere near as interesting.
°The djinni he summoned to do his dirty work ... it's a long story. Read it, it's good. If you like, y'know, magic and stuff.

Comments

[rosynose.livejournal.com]

Your Nobbs is wonderful ^_^ The 'sheepy' look really suits him.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

yeee :D kitty x3 and the first guy's teeth are love.

what kind of pencils do you use? :o

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I usually start with blue col-erase (which scans grey) and then go over it with something graphite; In this case I believe it was a Sanford Mirado B (the only 'mainstream' pencil brand that makes B pencils rather than HB) because that was what was at hand.

[tonks244.livejournal.com]

I'm loving them all, but I think my favorite is the cat. The cats at my house do that exact pose all the time! So cute.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

I like the Nobbs drawings. Yours are the best I think I have seen- kind of just on the edge of being homo sapiens sapiens.

The little meep cat was cute, too. It is making me miss my little Dulcie.

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

Gorillaz!Nobby? Bartimaeus Trilogy fanart*?? Bartimaeus Trilogy/HP crossover fanart?????

I give you LOTS OF LOVE FOR THIS! <3 <3 <3 It's like 4 of my fav fandoms in a strange twisted collision. Weird coincidence.

Again, you are great at different face shapes and expressions, even with cats and repulsive caricature women ^_^

*the third is very good, but has much less funny and more NATIONAL CRISES AND TRAGEDY!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to have made you so happy. Yes, I've heard lots of things about the last one (LOTS of things ... possibly too many things) because my sister read it a few month ago and has been bugging me to read it ever since. I am looking forward to the national crises; they are thoroughly engrossing. And tragedy as well.

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

I'm guilty of being the person who bugs my sibling to read books, so I can sympathise :D.
It's the sort of book you want to share the pain of with as many people as possible ^_^

[verselus.livejournal.com]

I started the Bartemaus trilogy last summer, but I never did get to finish it. However, your drawing of Lovelace looks a lot like one of the librarians who used to work on campus with me. I know that means nothing to you, but I'd just thought I'd state it for the record. :)

PS Harry definitely looks too happy for his own good. Love it. ;)

[angieweasley.livejournal.com]

Huh. I really like your Bartimaeus art, and I love Harry's little crossover.

Lovin' the cat, Tealin.

[(Anonymous)]

Think anorexic!CSI Girl likes Dr. Raven Sable?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I'm sure of it!

my forgotten lunch calling to me from home

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Your lunch knows how to use the phone?

[deirdre-ucchan.livejournal.com]

I love the cat

[barbara-the-w.livejournal.com]

We tried to think of what city in the world might possibly warrant a red filter on everything,

...Moscow?
...Honolulu?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Wow, I was expecting my dad to be the one to come out with 'Moscow.' Metaphorical redness does not warrant a visual filter, I'm afraid.

What's so red about Honolulu?

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

This reminds me, I really need to read the second Bartimaeus book. I started it awhile back, but I never really got around to finish it.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Additionally, I really like your design for Nathaniel. The shadowed eyes work especially well. He really is rather like Tom Riddle, isn't he (funnily enough, this had never occurred to me before)?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I like the second one much better than the first, probably because it's got an underground resistance movement and I LOVE those things. There are also more sympathetic characters in it.

[rawrsie.livejournal.com]

love the sketches

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Great Nobbies (those teeth on 2-D are cool, aren't they?) laughed my butt off at the CSI:yellow/Incan mummy chick (funny elbow!), don't know the stories but liked those haunted drawings of Nathaniel and Simon (the messy hair/Harry aga was very funny too), and GREAT CAT (those rear paw pads are so perfect!)!

Hey

[zeshen.livejournal.com]

I resent that, I live in St. George, but you are right there is a lot of red here. Anyway nice pics when is there more harry potter!!

Cool!

[phantom-drummer.livejournal.com]

Alright! Bartimaeus Trilogy fanart! (And yes, the final book IS very good.) I really like your take on Lovelace, and the HP crossover seemed inevtiable, didn't it ;) Very cool as always!

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I couldn't really get into the Bartimaeus trilogy. I read Amulet of Samarkand, but it felt like it was taking ages to read which is a sure-fire way of telling that I'm not really enjoying a book.

[karwei.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I almost forgot about The Bartimaeus Trilogy. I read the first one in France. I never read the last one. I'll have to read 'em again too. I love your fanart. The one with Bartimaeus/Potter made me giggle.

Nobby looks wonderful.

I know! I know!

[(Anonymous)]

After staring at your Nobby way too long, I've figured out who it looks like. It's Fagan from Oliver and Company!

Re: I know! I know!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Gasp! That's it. (please let them never cast Dom DeLuise as Nobby's voice...) He does look different enough, doesn't he?

Re: I know! I know!

[(Anonymous)]

It does look different enough. Don't worry. I'll let you know when I figure out the little nobby; he's bugging me too.
-Kaelynn

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

O_O
Honestly, up until now I have *never* before seen any Nobby that would fit my mental image. Which, in fact, I don't have, if you understand me. I can't picture him clearly. But when I am browsing through tons of DW art (be it Kidby, of "just" fan's), I know exactly that Nobby doesn't look like that.
Yours...... is perfect.

O_O
Yoo

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

This is probably the single best compliment these drawings could ever recieve. I have had the exact same experience with depictions of Nobby (Even Paul Kidby's just looks like a runty, dermatologically disadvantaged Rincewind) so to hear that mine is 'perfect' is... tremendous. Thank you.

[trashcanbaby.livejournal.com]

your kitty drawings are always so good, i think i need you to teach me to draw kitties. i've got two at hand, but can't do it for the life of me. i just remember that i have skittles!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Draw from life, draw from life, draw from life!

I couldn't draw cats until I left home and didn't have one for a while...

[rebekah-weasley.livejournal.com]

I love the *meep* cat! And the Bartimaeus Trilogy! Your Lovelace looks properly scornful and I love the Potter crossover!
Young Nobbs looks so... cute. 0_o