I wish all drawings would go this fast & result in something this cute.
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It actually took longer to scan/edit the images & make this post than it did to draw him. I could tell it was flowing, and usually you wouldn’t want to interrupt that but I thought it looked okay without inking, so I scanned it while it was still pencil & marker. (“Take a picture, it’ll last longer“)
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P.S.
Re: Egghead – I made a funny.
I missed a post yesterday, but not because I didn’t do anything creative: I just made food, not drawings! Sometimes I just make stuff up when I’m cooking & it turns out pretty güd.
After Wombat’s wonderful mac-n-cheese was enjoyed by all, I sat down with some sculpy. After a few minutes without inspiration, I decided to change medium. I really wanted to do some sculpting, but I don’t want to “force it”.
I found myself staring at the wall:
So here is my rendering:
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Wall art detail
Hope you like it – I do 
In the book Disneyland Paris: From Sketch to Reality (by Alain Littaye, Didier Ghez), there is a small image of a great piece of concept art for Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I really like the energy in the shot, so I thought I would try see if I could capture a little myself.
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While I’m happy with the way it turned out I’m not happy with the way it scanned. I did this on vellum; with inking on the front and marker color applied to the back. This method gives it a certain luminosity which is hard to capture with the scanner. It’s this color effect that really is the point of the exercise, and in the full-size (click the above image) you can see some spots of unfortunate inking.
Hope you like it.
I drew this on Friday, but wasn’t able to get it to you until now.
Earlier this week, I saw an image of Indy which I believe to be during a scene from Last Crusade at Barnett College. I thought it would make a good challenge for a couple of reasons:
Source: www.indy4.info
Well that’s no good. I wanted to push myself to actually capture the person, not their effect. So here’s the image I used:
source: www.indy4.info
And the result:
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Not terrible, really. I think I should do more portraits, given this is my first in over a decade.
Sorry I took so long, but I had to learn Flash before you could have any fun with this one.
Here is my crypto-art flash puzzle, Finders Keepers. Sure it’s no hunt, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out: PUZZLE LINK IN NEW WINDOW.
For those of you who are awaiting today’s daily creative challenge post, I’m out for the evening, so I can’t show you the sketch of Harrison Ford as Dr. Jones.
That means 3 treats for you tomorrow:
Bye
It was a lot of fun, and a lot of work. Blame the latest issue of Wired Magazine, but I have puzzles on the brain.
Materials
It’s the sort of puzzle you have to hold in your hands, so I can’t show you today, but tomorrow I’ll have scans of 2 art pieces & I’ll figure out a way for you to play online.
All I can show you right now are these views:
I just finished today’s project; I hope you like it!
Maybe I felt a need for revenge against my craft wood after yesterday’s partial failure, but I felt like giving wood another go. After work I spent some time thinking about some nice scene or object with nice lines or a familiar look that might pose some challenge to build.
I settled on an adirondack-style beach chair.
Today’s shot – a working gear set made from balsa. In order to make this post today, I had to give up. Maybe if I had more time I could make it happen – c’est la vie…
Well here’s the project: a planetary gear (wikipedia link) is a set of gears which rotate (or orbit) a central “sun” driving gear. The “planets” are also constrained by a ring gear.
I printed the design out, and traced the parts onto vellum.
This is the first post in a personal challenge to do & document something creative daily. Instead of eating lunch today (I’m not exactly wasting away), I did a quick marker sketch of an iconic frame of an iconic character. Chernabog can be seen in the original Fantasia. Here it is:
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One of his eyes needs some work, but part of this challenge is to let go of nit-picking. I’m really happy this took me less than half an hour. Here’s a description from the Disney archive:
From his perch high upon Bald Mountain, Chernabog unfolds his wings and casts his dark shadow over the sleeping village. Born of nightmare and myth, he conjures writhing harpies and fiends, and calls the spirits of the restless dead to perform at his beckoning. His minions live and die at his whim, feeding the fire with their bones when he’s wearied of their devotion. Chernabog is king of the darkness and no human dares walk the night while he’s abroad! His evil power stands against anything — except the clean light of the sacred dawn. When the sweet notes of morning break over the mountain, the monster must crawl back into hiding, for against the purity of the day, his evil is helpless. But Chernabog is never gone, he merely waits for the coming of another night, and the chance to continue the eternal battle between light and dark.
Animator Bill Tytla drew on the Ukrainian myths of his childhood, and the powerful concept imagery created by Danish artist Kay Nielsen, to bring the frightening Chernabog to life. Horror-film star Bela Lugosi performed live-action reference for the giant demon, but Tytla was not completely satisfied with the result and re-shot much of the acting himself.
Film: “Fantasia” (1940)
Animator: Vladimir “Bill” Tytla
Click for a large view of reverse side of sheet.
This is the back view of the paper, which shows how I did the coloring for this image. All the black marker is on the front side, while coloration was achieved by liberally applying yellow, terracotta, and blue markers through the backside of the sheet to mix & blend. This can give a “splotchy” color effect & allows you to use markers without having a solid “edge” to each stroke. A clear blending marker could also achieve this end.
I would be very interested in hearing what you think!
