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Knock me down with a feather, I did a [community profile] DRAWESOME challenge. I was doodling with my carbon ink pen and suddenly thought, wasn't there a MerMay challenge?

2021 Mermay doodle carbon ink



No pencil, no plan, just ink.
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I may be doing several lists this year, either picking and choosing, or mixing and matching. Of course, I'll start off trying to do a drawing a day, and probably fizzle out part way through, but that's fine.

This is my own list.
2020 SPNtober promts

Plus Drawesome's Drawtober list.
Drawtober

And I might dabble in the Whumptober list too. Because why not.
Whumptober 2020 - crop
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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.
2018 Inktober Day 1 - Tombow calligraphy pen
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 [community profile] drawesome  one was potions and bottles, #mabsdrawlloweenclub was Witch, while #drawtober2018 provided the pumpkin head.
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I did two fills for [livejournal.com profile] spn_masquerade,  neither of which were in the least bit porny, but never mind.
Teaser - yes I know this is not even a human!! LOL!
2018 Farmboy piglet
Farm boy Jensen for this prompt (and my effort didn't really fulfill the OP's criteria, so I don't know if they liked it or not).Read more... )Read more... )

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Ages ago there was a meme on tumblr (or somewhere) to take an old drawing/painting and try doing it again to see what differences there are, if any, in your style, competency, etc. I'd been meaning to have a go at this challenge for ages, then for some reason this old drawing from 2012 got my attention, so...Remix time!

Here's the old pencil drawing which is fiddled with in photoshop or GIMP, because I remember the eyes were in the wrong place. I know I added white highlights too, and some digital shading.Read more... )
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For the spn_bigpretzel spring exchange, and for theymp's fun fic Adventures in Washing Machines - I mean, how could I resist a prompt that offered me Sam in denim cutoffs? Poor Dean... LOL!
Fic link HERE!
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For the [community profile] DRAWESOME challenge no:16 - age diversity.

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I've done a fraction more shading now but I'm not sure it's made much difference. It's not quite right but it was fun trying the greyscale technique again. The erasing in the midtone doesn't show up very well on the actual drawing either though the photo reduced that further.
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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
Teaser
Lumps sample teaserSee main pic )

T'Challa

Mar. 17th, 2018 10:14 pm
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For [community profile] drawesome challenge No: 14 - Create a drawing featuring someone of different ethnic background to your own.

Title: T'challa
Artist:
Rating: G
Fandom:
Marvel (Wakanda)
Characters/Pairings: King T'challa
Content Notes: Coloured pencils
T'challa

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Firstly - Happy Birthday borgmama1of5, hope you have a lovely day! Here's some Demon!Dean for you.Read more... )
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Naturally I want to start the year by drawing stuff I shouldn't be doing and isn't due yet, instead of doing the stuff I should be doing and has deadlines coming up. Start as you mean to go on, right?
For madebyme_x's story Technicolour Revolution for the first round of quicky_bang for 2018.

Teaser:
2018 QB madebymex -1 crop
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Pigma micron pen and Japanese brush pen. Just wanted to try something for fun.wolf under cut )
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I was feeling sad today - wrapping a much diminished pile of presents just emphasised all the people who are missing and it just didn't feel right. So I thought I'd try some drawing instead. (Of course, I should have been writing instead but - yeah).
I wanted to try something more controlled and using zones instead of the more organic shading I'd normally do, so I started with pencil outlines then once I was happy with the proportions, I inked it. Just a fine Stabilo felt tip pen.
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For a challenge on [community profile] DRAWESOME, and in part prompted by Inktober's Day 24 prompt, Blind, here's my attempts to draw blind, without looking at the paper at all. Thanks to goss for the vid refs and the idea!

It's even harder than drawing left handed, the temptation to check what you are doing is so strong! I draped a newspaper over the paper so even if I dropped my gaze it wouldn't help me.

I thought I'd try it two different ways - the first was trying to use one continuous line. I ended up using two as I took my pen off around the second eye, and when I returned pen to paper, somehow the whole scale of the drawing changed. Really weird. 
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Haven't done one of these art posts for a while.
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Challenge 8 is to try doing some art using your non dominant hand.

I don't think I've tried drawing left handed since I was at school so this was interesting!
Especially as I forgot that using the left hand I should have started the picture on the right and worked across, instead of on the left - which meant I spent most of the time trying to lift my hand to avoid smudging the damn thing!
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It's supposed to be Captain America. The other interesting thing, apart from how wobbly my hand is, drawing lines, is how basically I made the same errors I do with my right hand. His face is still too long and thin... It was actually easier to control the pencil when I held it on its side more.
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I only realised after I jumped on this one that I'd done a quicky_bang for zubeneschamali before, so I hope this isn't too much, going for a second one!
Teaser
2017 QB Zuben pirate-1 crop
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I'm going to the London Film & Comic Con on Saturday and am getting an autograph from a certain actor - so I thought I'd try using the new pastels on coloured paper techniques to create something for him to sign. But, dear flisties, does this look enough like him to ask him to sign it?
All concrit gratefully received.
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If it is recognisable and not too awful, I'll use this. If it needs tweaking I can have a go. If it's not good enough I'll start again. The colours haven't photographed quite right, this makes it look like there's a lot of white on his face that isn't so glaring on the drawing. (I think/hope).

Over to you guys!
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Our first week's challenge for [community profile] DRAWESOME  is to start from a curve and do something fannish.

Teaser
Curve for DW Draw-1.1 crop
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