“Bad Moon Rising,” Mourning Ritual + Peter Dreimanis
“You’re Dead,” Norma Tanega
“Devils,” Say Hi
I allowed myself one do-over this time, because “Devils” is waaaay shorter than I thought it was, and I didn’t draw fast enough. On a somewhat related note, I’m digging the Spotify skin for the Stranger Things playlist.
I got a bit distracted actually listening to “Cold Cold Cold,” which resulted in more of a rush job than usual, but no takesies-backsies and no do-overs!
The ominous knife-wielder accidentally wound up being a leftie, but we’ll just say that’s because I wanted to make the picture more … sinister. [ba-dum-tish]
“Run,” AWOLNATION
“Cold Cold Cold,” Cage the Elephant
“Trouble,” Adam Agin
Last week’s zooarchaeology assignment involved sorting out deer bones, which may account for the subject matter of that last picture. (I did try to make it look like the former “king” may have succumbed from a hoof to the skull, though.)
“Lullaby,” Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
“Cask of Amontillado,” Alan Parsons Project
“A Little Wicked,” Valerie Broussard
“Locked in the Basement,” Fredrik
“White Flag,” The Romanovs
“Enter Sandman,” SHEL
That last song was inconsiderate enough to be less than 3 minutes long, I didn’t even have time for slapdash shading like in “White Flag.” By contrast, “Locked in the Basement” was six minutes long and got the full scribble treatment.
Aaaand the final five, catching us up to the present day. It’s a pity I don’t really know how to draw a skua (at least, not in 3 minutes and 26 seconds), because that’s where I was going with today’s for In Cold Blood.
“Sad Lisa,” Cat Stevens
“House By the Sea,” Iron & Wine
“Nothing’s Funny,” The Dillinger Escape Plan
“Hellfire,” Barns Courtney
“In Cold Blood,” alt-J
Huzzah, more ink!
“The Ghost of Pokemon Tower,” Braxton Burks
“I’m Only Joking,” Kongos
“Devil Like You,” Gareth Dunlop
“Trouble is a Friend,” Lenka
“Lady Eleanor,” Lindisfarne
Let’s face it: I’m not great at keeping to schedules and deadlines if there aren’t grave [inadvertent festive pun!] consequences. But I do like drawing, so it was inevitable I’d get in the Inktober spirit in the end. I’m about 14 days behind at this point, so we’re activating the Sketchdump Protocol to get things caught up.
This year’s gimmick is that for each day I listen to a song from my Halloween playlist while drawing. Nothing new there, since I almost always listen to music while drawing unless I’m in class, but here’s the catch: I have to stop drawing once the song is over. One picture per song, ideally inspired by some of the lyrics. This doesn’t always work out so well, aesthetically, but at least having a challenge keeps me drawing. Here are the first five in all their varying degrees of glory:
“Run Baby Run,” The Rigs
“Heffalumps and Woozles,” Powerglove
“This is Halloween,” Citizens of Halloween
“Vampires,” Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes
“Poor Unfortunate Souls/I Put a Spell on You,” Voctave/Rachel Potter
One of these days I think I’ll devote an actual finished drawing to that last song, Ursula is the best (even if I cannot draw her with any kind of speed).
A shabby start to Inktober — two days of nothing, and the third is aggressively ink-free. Nevertheless, there are musical dinosaurs, so I like to think it was worth it in the end.
“But there are ALWAYS musical dinosaurs in this blog,” you might lament — and you would be entirely justified in this complaint. But you see, this one is actually PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT.
What mad musical mash-up has caught my fancy today? It’s a doozy, so you might want to sit down: Graphic novel + song + Robin Hood (THE ANIMATED ONE, I.E. THE ONLY ONE) + dinosaur action figures! + birds, sort of! Whaaaat?
Let’s break this down. Basically, it started with the book In Other Lands, which has nothing to do with this at all but got me in an anachronistic-old-timey-fantasy mood (yes, that is one of my many possible mood settings). I also had to read a very enthusiastic chapter about Chaucer for one of my classes. I also also found a graphic novel with an amazing title (Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo: The Road to Epoli — plus there’s a skeleton in a hat on the cover?!) so I had to grab that. And about half that graphic novel (which is about a traveling skeleton minstrel?!?!) is a song about a wanderer and a sort of spooky haunted fog … and at the end there’s a link to a recording of the song. Which is over nine minutes long, but I digress.
Around the same time there was a fanart display being hosted by Creative Beast Studio, who makes aforementioned dinosaur action figures! with coloration based on living birds, and I was thinking how some (particularly the kestrel/dromaeosaur, my best friend), with their poofy little arm feathers, reminded me of that rooster minstrel from Hamster Dance Whistle-Stop in Robin Hood. He was the best. Anyhow, in the winding caverns of my brain, rooster minstrel met skeleton minstrel and also dinosaurs, so obviously (?!) I had to make a traveling dromaeosaur trapped in the fog, maaaaaybe returning to skeleton form himself, on the Road to Epoli.
One of these days I’m going to draw something that doesn’t require so much backstory.
Drawn @ Random 