#pen and ink
A possum in the forest lumbered over to me
A goddess of the forest, ancient deity
“Oh, to be an animal again” she mused to me
With abysses for eyes, tongue circling her teeth
“Well, aren’t you an animal?” I carefully asked
She put a hand on a skull, and spat out a laugh
“You’re an animal too, surely you know that
Once you become a deity, you cannot go back.”
This was one of those rare little drawings and words that creep up your spine with the autumn wind, daring you to wrestle them down onto paper. about 45 minutes, Papermate ballpoint pen and Micron 05. My Prismacolor brush pen was dying (well, all my pens are dying) so I dipped the tip in rubbing alcohol and “painted” with it. Some touchups were made in Photoshop to try to fix what the scanner distorted.
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It began the creep over Brother Watchtower that something wasn’t right, but he couldn’t quite put a name to it.
Guards! Guards! Page 228
The Elucidated Brethren starts their meeting, despite the absence of the grandmaster. However, something is not right about the new member.
In this series, I haven’t had much opportunity to have Death. So, I'm glad to have this one turn out well.
He became terribly aware that Lady Ramkin had moved, and saw to his horror that she was striding towards the dragon, chin stuck out like an anvil.
Guards! Guards! Page 217
Lady Ramkin manages to control the dragon by treating it like any other dragon. That is until she breaks eye contact a couple of seconds later. All that’s left is the threat of the slipper!The fun of this was imagining Lady Ramkin still in her ridiculous dance dress, along with boots and gauntlets.
He swung into an avenue of shelving that was apparently a few feet long and walked along briskly for a half an hour. Guards! Guards! Page 208
The Librarian enters L-Space to travel back in time to find out how The Summoning of Dragons was stolen.
L-Space is one of my favorite concepts in Discworld. It took a while trying to figure out how to visualize this but I’m pretty happy how well the warped perspective worked.
“But Gaskin went and forgot, he ran on, went around the corner and, well, this bloke had a couple of mates waiting.”
Guards! Guards! Page 207
Guards! Guards! begins with the funeral of the Watchman Gaskin, demoralizing what’s left of the watch. Later Colon tells us how Gaskin died. He made the fatal watchman mistake of running too fast when chasing someone.
There’s not much to go on when drawing Gaskin. We can assume he’s as old as Colon and Vimes. This was confirmed in Night Watch. Night Watch also gives the detail that he’s called “Leggy” Gaskin. because of this, I tried to make him tall and lanky.
Vimes pulled a scrap of paper toward him. He looked at the notes he’d made yesterday,
Guards! Guards! Page 200
Vimes looks over the notes that he made regarding the dragon. While Errol feasts on anything he can get his claws on.
In my mind, this is one of the first signs of Vimes’s transition from town drunk to, well, Vimes.
I like how the composition of this turned out, but at the same time, I think this would be on the top of my list of pictures to do over… I really screwed up Vimes’s crossed legs.
The boy’s horse jigged nervously on the plaza’s flagstones as he dismounted, flourished the sword and turned to face the distant enemy.
Guards! Guards! Page 198
As predicted, some kid with a sword comes to challenge the dragon. Anyone who has been reading the rest of the book knows this is a ringer set up by the Elucidated Brethren. Yes, he can swing the sword. But how much of that is a necessary skill for ruling? (Especially when we know his main talent is looking at mirrors)
This one came out… okay. Not getting into my continuing inability to draw horses, dramatic dismounts are hard.
“Don’t you mean pork, sir?” said Carrot warily, eying the glistening tubes.
“Manner of speaking, manner of speaking,” said Throat quickly. “Certainly your actual pig products. Genuine pig.”
Guards! Guards! Page 193
The watch arrives at the city square, where some kid with a sword is challenging the dragon. As always in Ankh Morpork, capitalism trumps public safety. In the process, Carrot and Lady Ramkin witness Cut Me Own Throat’s pork… products for the first time.
I tried to make the scene frame the crowd as much as possible. Perhaps I should have zoomed back just a little bit more.
February 2022 sketch cards
February 2022 sketch cards, weird in-jokes edition.
It was a small month for requests, and then March gave me a terrible cold, so there’s just two quick, fun ones! There will have to be more made this month so I keep having plenty for my Snow Leopards, but please enjoy these two dumb jokes.
ACEO sketch cards by Amy Crook for Patreon supporters
Jeff prompted with the in-joke “Feast for Yoda” and got this equally obscure bit of humor back.
Rey &…
Evermore
Evermore, like nevermore but sunsets happen on a daily basis… so far.
Evermore, 7″x5″ watercolor on yupo
Yupo is a nifty paper-like substrate made of polypropylene resin that doesn’t absorb water at all. This tough little sheet is semi-transparent, so you can see my tablecloth through the sunset if you look closely!
Clouds spiral upward from gold to orange to pink, while the sun sits red at the edge of the horizon, ready to slip away for the night. The tree still…
Relic I, Watercolour, Pen and Ink Sketch, April 2020.
Relic III, Watercolour, Pen and Ink Sketch, April 2020.
‘Lligwy Prehistoric Burial Chamber’ Pen and Ink Sketch, Anglesey, North Wales, April 2020.
‘Swinside Stone Circle’ Pen and Ink Sketch, March 2020.
‘Old Bourbushtree Stone Circle’ Pen and Ink Sketch, March 2020.
All rights reserved, 2020. Repost only with credits.
‘Druid’s Altar’ Stone Circle Pen, Ink and Watercolour Sketch, March 2020.
HELLBOY fan art by yours truly
Hello! I hope everyone is doing fine. It seems like Tumblr has flagged couple of my posts(there’s nothing in my “view flagged posts” page though) on my dashboard even though I don’t make any work that is nsfw. Anyway, it seems like I have not posted my convention photos so here! I attended some independent zine conventions and sold two comics (Contact, Unstable Stable), two different sketchbook zines, and some stickers back in 2017~2018. I haven’t attended to conventions since due to my health again. It has been fluctuating from good to not-so-good, but currently I’m on the more ‘good’ side again! Stay hydrated and have a wonderful day.
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