What's This, Drawings?
Apr. 25th, 2006 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinI 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.
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.
