My first comic creation act with my shiny new lightbox. (A lightbox makes it easy to copy a rough drawing to a final fair copy, or, in this case, to replicate shapes and objects to help keep them consistent from frame to frame.)
I had some fun looking at some original Sidney Paget art to base these characters on. Apparently Sidney got the job by mistake — the publishers of the Strand Magazine thought they were hiring his younger brother, Walter.
Happy Seasonal Greetings to all my readers.
And apologies to fans of Sir Arthur, again.
Just a doodle from this evening. After scanning I added the flipped inverse image just because.
There are times when semi-aquatic is only half the story. At the weekend we visited the Grant Museum of Zoology in London, part of University College London. The museum was used as a reference for students, and pulls no punches. They have a lot of pretty gruesome stuff in there, including a whole jarful of pickled moles, as well as the more uplifting sight of dodo bones and a near-complete quagga skeleton (brought up to totality by 3D scanning and printing reflected parts from one side to use on the other.) A combination of unsettling and fascinating. Anyway, a puffer fish in a cabinet caught my attention, and by the time I got home it had trans-hippogrified out of my sketch-book.
I’ve been wanting to do this one for a while. We recently went to a workshop on drawing a manga version of Romeo and Juliet, so now seems about the right time.
Some creatures spotted at Howlett’s Zoo (in Kent, UK) weather you believe me or not.
One for the word-play category…
Just a little doodle I found in my brain. The popularity of standing desks is burgeoning in my office (though very few of my colleagues are giraffe.)