Line Sketch - Blog Posts

drawing for the cafe project, done in ~1 hour haha

some quick life drawings, 15 min each, except the top right which was 30min

charcoal on grey card paper

Inktober dump: the requests.

Prompts beneath the cut:

Bonus: “Sofa Hunting”

1. @lenleg as a dragon with @mrsmarymorstan , plus @little-smartass playing a harp? Jess doesn’t play the harp no-one knows why Anna requested that

2. “Flying Tigers”

3. a border collie picture, requested by @tpoross

4. “volcano people”

5. “pig latin”

6. ”blood moon”

7. “If the world were somehow enslaved by hyper intelligent bees (look the same as regular bumble bees). What would it look like? A scene from everyday life.“

8. “a potato, singular, with a moustache“ : @lenleg

9. “The alpacalypse ..(alpaca related end of the world)“

10. “Merpeople swimming with jellyfish“

inktober! at the request of @mrsmarymorstan, herself upon a dragon who is actually @lenleg, accompanied by @little-smartass playing a harp.

Inktober 4! whenever I’m stuck for theme, I invariably draw surreal beautiful women. (Holler @ ladies who keep the fluff on your cheeks, keep being fab. unfortunately here it’s less visible after I coloured it but oh well it’s there).

[This one’s blue because in my small collection of rarely-used copics I have a total of 0 skin colours. ]

Bonus: Inktober 3, which I forgot to upload yesterday

In honour of my Fave Strange Film, “Princess Raccoon”. It’s truly an experience. (and no, unfortunately the raccoons in this film don’t look like raccoons. But they do wear kimonos...)

Inktober! Here's to sticking to it. Feat. littlesmartart

The full game dev team (so far)! Jess Thomas is in charge of characters and narrative, Eireni Moutoussi is in charge of gameplay and environments, and the team of Yuvesh Tulsiani, Bashar Saade and Will Meaton are doing the programming.

Jess and Eireni study Graphic Design and Illustration at Loughborough University, while Yuvesh, Bashar and Will are studying Game Programming at Goldsmith’s University.

More draw-y things for Artemis the 13-yr-old trans-girl freedom flyer - we got rid of the term pirate cause she doesn't actually steal things. She's an outlaw tho, and the government kidnapped her parents and she's on a recue mission to get them back! Most of the crew are part of a minority or two, largely bc we all agreed that representation is important in general, but also bc I have friends who are v precious to me and I wanted to give them some??? sort of representation, as a personal thing. I'll prob post something of those characters too.

The airships, clockwise from top-left (to-scale comparison). In this world, there's a tradition of making everything that flies, ie the major ships and islands, as pretty as possible, "so that on the day it falls, it will be a beautiful wreckage":

her parents' vehicle before they get kidnapped, built for speed and carrying essential supplies; copper-coloured support structure to allude to aid, but a more subtle balloon and ship colour to avoid too much attention.

a government vehicle, built for power+to impress, with vague Ancient Egyptian warship references, with a dark colour balloon bc it's a sign of wealth that they can afford so much dye, to stand out against the gold-plated support, and cause you know, general dictatorship references;

a merchant vessel: murky-yellow balloon bc who has money to bleach/dye that much fabric, not merchants anyway, basic steel support.

Teenie Tiny airship of the Artemis' crew. Blue to vaaaaguely blend in with the sky and generally avoid detection. Bit old-fashioned.

the model sheet is what I drew initially as a reference for the model but have since drawn over + coloured

"Handgloves"An oldie I kept forgetting to upload and found again today. From an assignment from last year.

No.4 of the 51 animation exercises! I feel like I missed the point a bit on this one bc I spent too long on details that I didn't make many frames (there are only 5 distinct frames) but w/e.

need a cute Christmas card?

Stickers etc

Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

Stickers etc

Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

Stickers etc

Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

Stickers etc

Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

Stickers etc

Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

Stickers etc

Group Photoset Warrior Mage Scout Healer Cleric

I'm likely to do pixels at some point, if anyone is interested.

Social Justice Roleplay, anyone? The classes' roles + strengths will be in a final post...

Pastel Space Mercrocs are exactly what my blog needed

THIS IS FOR little-smartass WHO MAY NEVER AGAIN HAVE A BAD DAY ABOUT SELF IMAGE AS SHE HAS AN ETERNAL CHEERLEADER

at least that’s the effect I’m going for. I can’t guarantee success with an animation done in the heat of the moment at 3:00-4:00 in the morning. The cheerleader was going to be me but has turned out significantly cuter than I expected, also more actually athletic, (I’ll never achieve a stunt like that in my life ever). So let’s just say based on me. If I could kick like that.

I think I’ll clean/colour it sometime that’s not. 4:30 in the morning 

Nothing you can say will persuade me that Sakura wasn’t a massive Wonderwoman fangirl

One of those characters that you discover as they're drawn. Apparently she's missing half a limb; that was fairly unexpected.

something I did recently for the uni mag monthly illustration competition (but hasn't made it)

Apparently drawing self-portraits as crystal gems is a thing now

Crystal: Opal (birthstone wow original) weapon: grappling hook

life drawing!!!! the most difficult pose [the 5th one] turned out to be my favourite drawing so yh that went well

[apologises for awful photo quality ><]

whoops my hand slipped

(warrior girl has huge gloves and is in too much of a hurry to take them off)

tall warrior woman wearing heavy armor and wielding a two-handed weapon leaning over so her princess girlfriend can stand on tippy-toes to kiss her on the cheek

some old life drawings

some life drawings: three were done last month, and a couple were done almost two years ago

we were having a lecture yesterday on Japanese “Girl Photography” from the 90s and “Provoke Era” from the 60s and I started doodling (don’t get me wrong it was a super lecture, really interesting, but the artsiness of it just, I dunno, made me wanna draw cute girlies)

PS I recommend checking out the names in my notes bc their photography is so cool

Started as a reponse to Kimbra's "wandering limbs" and then also George Peachtree's "sunshine" which are both A+ songs you should listen to

Style-wise partly inspired by the backgrounds in "101 Dalmatians"