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More life drawin’.

Bus drawin’.

Low on inspiration and ideas tonight. Here’s a police car flipping over.

A girl and her monster.

Based on a photo of Zooey Deschanel. I’m not sure the likeness is solid, but it was fun to draw and paint.

This is “Vikki”. She appears in a British lad mag that made its way into my possession. According to the magazine, “Vikki” hails from Essex. If true, that is likely to be the only thing we’ve ever had in common.

This turned out well but took me ALL NIGHT. There goes my slight ahead-of-the-game pace. Photo of Alyson Hannigan sourced from the internet.

A quick painting exercise using only a hard-edged brush and 0/25/50/75/100% grayscale. Source photo found randomly on Flickr.

This was based on a photo of a World of Warcraft Night Elf cosplayer. I’m really pretty unhappy with the way this came out, BUT I had to push myself way out of my comfort zone to make it, so in that regard I suppose it is a NaNoDrawMo success.

I have never been a painter. I like the sharp, unambiguous lines of pens and pencils. Paint doesn’t work the same way. It’s fuzzy and blobby and… analog.

Pencil-to-paint requires some serious brain rewiring — which I started to feel happening toward the end, but not in time to make this one look the way I wanted. I guess that means I should keep at it. I’ve got 42 more drawings to go, after all…

But I need to get back to basics. Value, tone, and all that boring stuff.