Tyrion Lannister - Loveable Rogue

Since I'm on a total Game of Thrones buzz lately I decided to draw my favourite character for this month's post. Here's Tyrion Lannister :D

Zombies!!

Okay, so it's m0re the zombie hunter than the ACTUAL zombies, but you say 'zombie' & I hear 'Zombieland' :D The idea of putting Emma Stone's red hair against something dark was appealing...plus it's Emma Stone haha!

The Things That Protect You at Night

I've been going back to basics and avoiding my MacBook Pro a lot lately and I'm loving it. I'd forgotten what it's like to try and make a marker last 'till the entire background is coloured in, haha. Anyway, I'd given up on submitting anything for this month's post until I heard the familiar sound of the Garda Horses passing my bedroom window. I wanted to do something different to my usual stuff (whether that worked or not is up for debate though) so I broke out the marker and coloured pencils. I messed about with the levels a wee bit after scanning and darkened the black ('cause thanks to the aforementioned marker-wastage it was a tad patchy), but aside from that it's 100% traditional.

It's All Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

Watched my fav' Hallowe'en movie tonight and decided to base this month's post on it. Couldn't choose which version I prefer so I'm putting them both up.

http://elainesnowden.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/its-all-just-a-bunch-of-hocus-pocus/

Birds, Birds, Birds...sorta

The theme’s ‘Birds, Birds, Birds’ but I ran with the human (or rather celestial) variety… angels. It’s mainly inspired by how the homeless are invisible to a lot of us and I thought I’d make them the angels. So while those of us who (want to) believe look to the skies maybe we should be looking closer to home.

Collective Meet up

Batman in a Day Doodle

Elaine and Jons lovely contributions to my sketch pad! :)

Maid Marian

This took far too long to pull together but I'm glad I finished it. Nothing terribly profound or clever, I just ran with the basic idea of the '89-'94 kids' show 'Maid Marian & Her Merry Men'. In a nutshell, Robin's a dimwit & Marian's the leader. Gave Marian a bit of a costume update 'cause she's cool, y'know ;P Originally I had the pair of them side-by-side, with Marian looking bemused by Robin but I couldn't get it to work so this happened.

..and yes, I did re-use the sketch I did at the first 'Collective Gathering' haha.

how's about we meet up?

Gary & myself have been talking about meeting up and working on some concept art, would anyone here be interested in joining us? How's Tuesday or Friday of next week sound? and then from there we can make it a regular thing.

Here's some Doodles from last night

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Now for my crop o sketches, approximately in order of execution, near as I can recollect:

Joker by Ben. To my mind seems reminiscent of the early, "friendlier" Joker, before he was recast as a sociopathic monster.

Cornerface by Elaine. Nice Kirby-esque vibe off this, I feel.

Broody guy by Gary. If you look closely, you'll see him looming in the background of Elaine's sketch, above.

A sketch that may or may not be based on Elaine. If you think that's bad, you should see the ones I did of Andrew and Gary. On second thoughts, maybe you shouldn't.

Some kind of Troll featuring my "default nose" - something I didn't realise I was guilty of till Ben pointed it out!

This is Peter Parker if he had been bitten by a cricket instead of a spider, by Ben. I particularly like the strap-on abdomen. I imagine its sort of like a batman's utility belt. Who knows what delights lie within!

 Gary here... here a few sketches from the other night. First up is a warm up pic that is as badly composed as can be... drawing off the page with loads of room behind. Rookie error.

 Batman sketch, straight marker work so no hiding the mistakes.

 So there was this weird Gerard Depardieu type dude staring at us all night so I just had to draw him... Not really of course... Just a weird sketch out of the ol' imagination.

Ben gave me this excellent brush pen to try out and this is what I did. Again, ink straight on page means all mistakes are forever...

Ben did this brilliant sketch of Spidey in my pad. Loves it! What can I say the boy's talented.

Elaine did this lovely sketch in my pad too. Now this is how to draw a female! Love it!

For The Honour Of Greyskull!!!

I know I am very early with this but, as I have quite a bit of free time at the moment, I figured I'd start drawing and see what happened. Took a while but I managed to decide on She-Ra as my childhood hero. I've meant to draw her before (countless times) but I've never been happy with the result. Anyway, simply for the fact that when I was little (and blonde haha) and my Dad would be blow-drying my hair, I'd make him send my hair all over the place a la She-Ra when she transforms, she's my childhood hero :)

Edit: Fixed the title 'cause I'm pedantic like that ;P

Jurassic Wilde

I was going for a dinosaur hunter idea and cast the action gal' du jour Olivia Wilde in the role. Not sure I was very successful resemblance-wise, but it is my first attempt at drawing her.

On a completely unrelated subject, I may be watching 'House' too much haha.

Heroes of the 21st Century

'Thanks Tina' by Elaine Snowden

I picked Tina Fey 'cause, not only did her impersonation of Sarah Palin effectively ruin her vice presidential campaign and save the world from THAT horrible prospect, but she also wrote Mean Girls :D