Life Drawing at the Post Office

[tealin]

All drawn during the long poses at life drawing ... the best time for doodles.

	Moist stares at Tiddles under the sorting engine, realising with growing terror what must be behind him. I read that scene on the way to the school and it made me so giddy I started boarding it ... you'll see the results of that when I have more time to sort out thumbnails. This pose took three or four tries to get right.
	Some 'thumbnails' (they're actually about 7 inches high) for Moist whirling around to stake Gryle...
	He misses the important bits. Mr Gryle kindly notifies him of this.
	Miss Dearheart holds her own in the Mended Drum, thanks to her paradoxically practical footwear. She's looking rather like a character a friend of mine designed way back when that I struggled to figure out ... well, it's worked now. Must look up my old reference stuff.

Comments

[jesskat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm loving the third one. Wonderful expressions.

[rhianimated.livejournal.com]

What Discworld book are those characters from? I haven't read much Terry Pratchett (although I do have an 'Art of Discworld' book that I love), but they sound really good and I think I might loan some out :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Going Postal. Hoooo, love that book.

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

Bweeeeee! x3 Moist!

..I have nothing more to say.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Thanks for going back to "Going Postal!" I love your drawings from the story and wondered how you would draw the Mended Drum and Banshee fight scenes. You capture the emotions really well. And, considering you did them as doodles- wow!

I doodled these scenes out, too, some time back. (I do this at work while waiting for files to download or in the lunch room) They are not even 1/4 as good as yours. I HAVE to take some art or comic book drawing classes. Yeesh.

The Pretty Lucretia scene with the drunk at the Mended Drum
(influenced somehow by Betty Davis and ladies at the pubs in Reykjavik who dress to impress (terrify :-) (?)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/thefordmustang/prettylucretia.jpg



A way too Marvel comic Banshee fight straight from the Amazon Rain forest! (I think I had just watched "Metropolis" so poor ole Moist looks a bit like Freder Fredersen there!
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/thefordmustang/banshee.jpg

Making Money

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Hey- I had to share this...

I saw this synopsis for the new Discworld novel "Making Money" on the British amazon.com site:

Synopsis
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mintruns at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!

[stevie-roch.livejournal.com]

Oh man, how I love Moist. I really like that sketch of Miss Dearheart, she looks much more like I picture her - kind of like drop dead gorgeous if she put in the effort, but actually goes the other way and puts effort into being plain. If that sentence made any sense.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Yes, that statement does make sense. I figure it would fit the whole abolitionist thing the Adora Belle is like. The Bette Davis image came to mind for me, but also Kirstie Allie (when she was still doing dramatic roles)in the 1980s when she played an abolitionist in a Civil War movie called "North and South."- she was spot on in that r9ole.

I like Moist von Lipwig's character, too. I am glad and Adora Belle will be in another book.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I love how movey your sketches are. I don't think 'movey' is a word. Eh. Is now.

Spike's nose is a bit pointy, though.