Blood will Flow

For this month's Drawesome challenge to explore unconventional body shapes and sizes in art. No instagram ready glam here.

I'd been wondering what to draw, then I thought about all the wonderful and various models we've had for our life drawing, so here are a few of my sketches.


Kaz
Kaz is in her forties, a belly dancer and cyclist

A bunch of folk festival people

Brenda
I think in her fifties, early 60s, an excellent sitter

Lady Contrary (Burlesque, you can check her out on Instagram. This was her first time life modelling.)

Gerald
Ex army, very upright and still when modelling. Early 70s.






I've left out the models who were more conventional shapes, but we used to have such a great variety of people, I really miss those sessions!

Scribble Time for this month's drawesome challenge! First one I've done for ages.
Just a quick effort from last night. Done with Zebra Sarasa gel pen from a comic book cover reference.

Not SPN today, and only one prompt. This one is Labyrinth, for @nikolas_tower's #Obscutober on Instagram.

I'd messed up this page in my sketchbook trying out colours for one of my SPN cinema fills, but then I thought, why not try ink on top of the random watercolours? So yep, there's some inking, then some gouache on top, and Jareth has a blue face, but why not?!

Don't worry I probably won't post every day, especially while I'm away in Venice and Manchester, but today being Day 1, it's getting it's own post.
Herewith may I present a Pumpkin headed witch, mixing poisonous potions in her potion bottles.

I sketched lightly in HB pencil then inked with a Tombow calligraphy pen. The pic is 4"x3" because I thought this year I'd try and keep them small.

I couldn't decide which prompt to go with from the four prompt lists I'd found, so this is actually all four in one picture! LOL
The official Inktober prompt was poisonous, the drawesome  one was potions and bottles, #mabsdrawlloweenclub was Witch, while #drawtober2018 provided the pumpkin head.

Title: Lumps of Pudding
Artist: amberdreams
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Fandom: None.
Summary: There's a old British folk tune called Lumps of Pudding, which is a jig that was popular in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. Some time in the 1790s H.W Bunbury drew a long comic-style strip of people dancing the Lumps of Pudding jig, and I've done my own version. This is just an extract because I've submitted a lot more dancing people as my design for a giant snail for a sculpture trail in Brighton, and we aren't allowed to share the complete designs yet.
Content Notes: Submitted for the Body Type Diversity challenge on drawesome because these folks might all be white but they are diverse! LOL
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Last week I did Dean, so this week it's Sam's turn. The prompt was a word - villainous. So I had to try Samifer, and then I had to gif it. I'm still not very slick at this animation business but it's fun.
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