Something Old, Something New

[tealin]

I just finished the sketchbook that was supposed to be 2007's ... a lack of inspiration leads to lots of life drawing which takes up a lot more space in a lot less time. I was going back through it this weekend looking for the thumbnails I did for a board when I ran across an old drawing I hadn't posted ...


I hadn't scanned it because I didn't like it much and was planning to redo it shortly after drawing it, but I don't remember exactly what my problems were with it and I guess it looks okay, if a bit stiffly posed. And Adora Belle looks suspiciously like the lady I was sitting next to at work at the time (who, oddly enough, looks just like her). Oh, and I spent several hours niggling at Moist's eye, including about twenty minutes in Photoshop tonight, but I'm just going to have to call it a defeat and resign myself to it looking weird for all eternity. Or else redraw the picture like I was planning to in the first place.

My internal monologue isn't nearly as entertaining as his, heheh.

This is my first non-life drawing in my new sketchbook after the owl I drew for my cousin:



Ooh look, he's scheming ... he's supposed to be leaning against the wall; I don't know how well that reads. Moment of epiphany, just before the Waltz (which I love so much it deserves a capital W).

Comments

[stevie-roch.livejournal.com]

Man you draw SUCH a good Moist. I can't wait for you to get Making Money so there will be more Moist!

I think Adora Belle is the one character I picture differently from you in this book. I see her more as being naturally very pretty and sweet faced, but she represses it and tries to appear severe. I don't know, I might have read her description wrong.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I accept your compliment on my Moist drawing abilities with a grain of salt as I have been helped significantly by OMG FREAKY COINCIDENTAL MARK GATISS:


I discovered this about a year after designing him and just about fainted. It's a Dr Who spoof sketch, of all things. Someday I may have to buy the DVD that it's on even though I'd only watch this five minutes. He moves like him, too!

[awkward-sylence.livejournal.com]

Gotta love those crazy coincidences... =D Even his bangs are falling in all the same places.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, your icon pretty much says it all. If I had even a clue this sketch existed I might say that perhaps I had dredged it up unconsciously, but I don't think I'd even seen Mark Gatiss before (only heard him on radio) and he looks completely different most of the time (again, very fitting). Let the record state that my primary influences for Moist were Faramir and 2nd Lt. Mowett!

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Will you ever draw Mowett again? Or Tom? Or Jack?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Eeeeuuuh ... probably. I still have a couple gags I want to do that I couldn't get right before, but that is most exceptionally low on the long, long list of priorities, alas.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice!

Gah, I just cannot get around to finishing this book. I started reading it during breaks when I was working at a power station, and that was well over a year ago (summer before last!!)! I'm not sure where my copy of it even is...oh, wait, I just found it.

I have Fall Break at the end of this week, so maybe I can start reading it again then.

[priscellie.livejournal.com]

So much love! I absolutely adore your Moist and Spike, though I concur with Stevie--I picture Adora Belle as being much more sweet faced, which she naturally must overcompensate for. :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, her brother did call her 'Killer,' and she never enjoyed ponies or ballet, so she must have had a bit of an edge even before he died. This isn't my standard Adora Belle design anyway ... I don't know if my other one is any more sweet-faced but she looks less like a tyrannical ballet teacher.

[meganphntmgrl.livejournal.com]

MADAME GIRY!ADORA BELLE?

[melithiel.livejournal.com]

Huh, I always pictured Adora Belle as looking like a 1940s femme-fatale Hollywood actress always surrounded by a cloud of smoke. Like Rita Hayworth (http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2005/04/17/lv_nosmoking17_ho.jpg) or Lauren Bacall (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/05/12/wfags12.jpg).

[lady-twatterby.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. :D Personally don't see anything wrong with Moist's eye in the topmost picture. In the bottom one he looks so dreamy, as if he's got an internal scene of glory playing in his head. Fantastic <3

Wow!

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

You just brightened my day at work with these images! It was so nasty until now. Moist's smile really does it for me- you nailed it just perfect: SOOOO nice and yet very evil. I hope we see more images of you having Moist smiling. Interesting real life model, too, with Mark Gatiss. I guess life DOES imitate art.

I look forward to seeing more of your Moist and Adora Belle sketches.

[ceilonar.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but in the second drawing, Moist's face scared me. Otherwise, AWESOME.

[(Anonymous)]

Daaaaang! I adore your Adora in the top picture so much, it's crazy. I think the pose is absolutely perfect for the restaurant scene when Reacher enters (assuming that's where it's from?) because if somebody suddenly perked up and started itching for a fight like that, you'd picture their movement as kinda stilted and jerky, right? Especially in an attempt at rising out of a chair which demands a kind of awkward movement in the first place. (but I mean, I'm not an animator type person so what do I know.) Just thought I'd throw that out there because my first thought was "oh gosh darn that's an awesome pose" and then I read that you didn't like it!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think the pose is fine overall (and yes, I wanted to capture that trying-to-stand-up-from-a-chair awkwardness) but the hand that's on the table looks so carefully posed, and the other hand isn't that much better. There was a lot more energy in the thumbnail... like the contrast between a Balinese dancer and a jazz dancer.

[(Anonymous)]

YAY MORE EXCELLENT DRAWINGS!!!!