More Inktober

I also did these drawings of my sister's two kittens, and my other sister's dog, they deserved to have their own post.

Inktober

So one thing I did now that I have a Twitter account is participate in an activity called "Inktober", in which the goal is to draw something in ink every day for the month of October. Even though I prefer media that have either an eraser or an undo button, it was still fun. A few of the drawings I did are below: More...

Tweetin'

Still working on that "posting more frequently" thing.  In the meantime, did you know I have a Twitter account?  it is at https://twitter.com/andrewg2442 and I have been posting a few sketches and works-in-progress there.  Stop by and say hello!

Goblin

Just a little goblin sketch - trying to get back into posting more frequently.

Happy New Year!

Have another New Year's Manatee!  It's still technically January, so this is almost timely.  Two years ago, I didn't get around to posting anything until March, so at this rate, in a few years, I will be posting things before I draw them.  Anyway, this looks to be an interesting year - hope yours is  a good one too!

Fantasy Basketball Fanart

While I'm posting things, here is some fanart I made.  I am a big fan of illustrator Sam Bosma, and when he came out with his comic Fantasy Basketball, I was inspired to do this drawing of one of the characters.  You can download a copy here.  (Seriously, you should, it's pretty great.)

Voltron Begins

Everyone remembers Voltron, right?  I haven't posted much lately, but I have been busy with a class - it is a mentorship through SmART School with Dan Dos Santos. This was our first project - we were supposed to take our favorite cartoon as a kid and paint a hypothetical movie poster for a live-action remake of the show.  I don't know if this succeeds as a poster, but I hope it conveys the most important message of the show, which was that eight-year old me thought it would be really awesome to fly around in a giant robot lion.

Actually, adult me thinks that would still be pretty awesome.

Anyway, I'm learning a lot from the class and have gotten some really great feedback.  I have two more assignments which I hope to put up here when I finish them.

Monster Portraits

Just a few quick monster portraits I did for fun.

And Also These

I also forgot to add these.

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Some Things of Interest

Here are some more drawings and sketches that may be of interest. More...

Tiger Stylish

Chipping away at my backlog of things to post, here is a project I did for the Eastern PA Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Illustrator's Day, which was back in June (and it is now, uh, September.)  Anyway, we were given a text of a picture book and told to develop a design for the main character.  The text was for a book called Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, it was about a tiger who becomes tired of the stuffy society he lives in and runs off into the wilderness.  Eventually he becomes homesick and returns, but the other animals have learned to accept him and his wild ways.

These are the drawings I did.  At the event, I learned that the book was written and illustrated by the talented and hilarious Peter Brown - whose Creepy Carrots! had recently recieved a Caldecott Honor. The book had not come out at the time, but you can now check out the real author's much more classy-looking Mr. Tiger here.

Stack of Grackles

Also, here is a stack of grackles. 

I guess it's an ecological competitor of the tower of owls I drew a while back

Drawctopus

Here is another thing I did - an octopus drawing, or "Drawctopus"

I'm sorry - that barely even rises to the level of being a terrible pun.

Sloth

Wow, almost a year since I last posted.  I have been working on a few projects, but I haven't kept on top of things by posting them here.  Sometimes I suspect that I am not really a human, but a sloth trying to do his best human impression.  To illustrate, here is a picture of a sloth wearing people clothes.

Face in the Frost Chapter 2

In order to post something for June, and also to show that I have not forgotten about it, here is a work-in-progress shot of my illustration for Chapter 2 of "Face in the Frost" (first chapter here).  I was busy with some other things earlier that did not work out, maybe now I will have time to update my blog more frequently.

Tower of Owls!

I felt like drawing a bunch of owls on top of each other so here you go.

Happy (super-belated) New Year!

Oh hey - what year is it? Once again, despite my best intentions, I have been forgetting to post things on the blog. To help make up for it, here is a New Year's Manatee... in March. I'll try and do better next time.

Troll

Oh man - is July over already? Things have been busy and I have not been keeping on schedule with my Face in the Frost illustrations, but just so I have something to show, here is a quick sketch of the troll from Chapter 2.

Panda

A quick drawing of a panda I did while testing out some brushes.

Eowyn and the Nazgul

Here is a picture I did for the latest ArtOrder challenge - the scene in The Lord Of The Rings where Eowyn confronts the Witch-King of Angmar. It's worth checking out the other takes here, there were a lot of really good interpretations.