End-of-the-Year Art Clearance!

[tealin]

On my way to finishing my sketchbook, here's a pile of stuff from vacation:

	Listening to the Silly Sisters some more got me in the Monstrous Regiment mood so here are a couple more attempts at Lofty.
	A not-so-great Shufti, and a rather better Lofty and Wazzer, trying to contrast shapes but not doing terribly well. This was left in blue so the constrast's kind of wonky.
	Here's a go at Wazzer. Not exactly like the image in my head but I like how it turned out anyway.
	My sister suggested Santa in a ball cap ... and somehow I got this. Obviously Santa is a trucker – how else does he transport all his loot?
	An illustration of the beautiful young lady at the beginning of Edgar Allen Poe's short story 'The Spectacles.' Surprisingly humourous. I am unfortunately ignorant of 1830s posh female fashion and didn't have any handy websites to look at while on the road. And her silhouette bears more than a passing resemblance to the cover of The Beatrice Letters.
	This was drawn in response to those parka vests which baffle me because when I'm cold, it's my arms that go first, so what is essentially a warm jacket seems completely pointless with arms removed. Usually nonsense in clothing is due to sex appeal, but a puffy vest is completely un-sexy, so what is it for? Anwyay, I tried joking about it by whipping up a set of puffy lingerie. Unfortunately the discrepancy between what is in style for fashion illustrations and what is in for actual human models was my downfall, and what was supposed to be a sexy model turned instead into a Frightening Skeleton Woman as usually happens when I try to draw someone 'attractive.' My sister gave me some tips which helped a little ... trying to draw something puffy in a flat graphic style is a bit self-defeating.
	We stayed a night in a motel in my cousins' hometown. The room was okay but I was unaccountably sleepless, which wasn't helped by the chorus coming from my parents' bed, which sounded like that.
	Had I managed to fall asleep before 11, I might have slept through this, but at about this time the room upstairs seemed to be hosting some sort of party that lasted till about 1:30. This illustration is the best I could do at picturing what was going on based on the sounds I heard.
	Another attempt at Innsmouth people ... marginally less cute than before. Progress! Perhaps contrary to the postulation in the comments on the previous Innsmouth post, Luna would not have an advantage over Voldemort by calling up Dagon, because Merope Gaunt could easily have had a direct line as well.
	Another, more grotesque denizen of Innsmouth.
	Herbert West, Re-Animator. And his narrator, who didn't do it, he swears.
	One sure way to send me into a fit of antisocial sullenness is to force me to make a decision RIGHT NOW, especially for something a long way off in the future for which I could happily procrastinate the decision-making proces.

Comments

[aurorawest.livejournal.com]

Loved all the drawings but I especially loved Herbert West! I am so used to Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West that it was really exciting to see him another way. The crazy grin is wonderful.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

This is the benefit of not having seen all that many movies... the reading of the book passed unmolested to my occipital lobe. Looking up The Re-Animator on IMDb, it looks like the movie bears a cosmetic resemblance to the book at best. Blar.

[aurorawest.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the movie's not too similar to the story. The movie is excellent though, I think.