Drawing Thread!

i fell in love w this jackass all over again after the latest resurgence of the discronus™ so i actually drew smthn for the askblog i technically still have

 

Spoiler: im tired

and im tired of being tired. gonna take a nap, again. forever. forever naps.

 

Spoiler: more watch dogs

and ever since i posted these on tumblr, it keeps recommending them to me? yes tumblr, i do like this series, and i like this art, because i posted it, thank you, you did it, i'm so proud

 

i'm working my way through drawing the stanzas of George Barker's Summer Song, which has on multiple occasions made me cry for some reason

Spoiler: poem in question

I looked into my heart to write
And found a desert there.
But when I looked again I heard
Howling and proud in every word
The hyena despair.

Great summer sun, great summer sun,
All loss burns in trophies;
And in the cold sheet of the sky
Lifelong the fishlipped lovers lie
Kissing catastrophes.

O loving garden where I lay
When under the breasted tree
My son stood up behind my eyes
And groaned: Remember that the price
Is vinegar for me.

Great summer sun, great summer sun,
Turn back to the designer:
I would not be the one to start
The breaking day and the breaking heart
For all the grief in China.

My one, my one, my only love,
Hide, hide your face in a leaf,
And let the hot tear falling burn
The stupid heart that will not learn
The everywhere of grief.

Great summer sun, great summer sun,
Turn back to the never-never
Cloud-cuckoo, happy, far-off land
Where all the love is true love, and
True love goes on for ever.

anyway, here are the first three stanzas so far

Spoiler: 1

Spoiler: 2

Spoiler: 3

 

nick crashes into a tree :/

 

Ow.

 

Cheris and Jedao from Ninefox Gambit

 

Just finished my first oil painting (12" x 12" canvas):

 

some traditional borderlands shit

Spoiler: arts

Spoiler: blood

 

THE BOYS

 

YOOOOOOO I LOVE THIS SO MUCH i just read ninefox gambit and raven stratagem like a week ago and this is PERFECT, DANG... jedao's traditional creepy eye column... cheris looks tired and stressed.. and her gloves!!

(do you have a tumblr so i can reblog it, or?)

 

did lineart stage for an old wip im probably never gonna touch again. i like it.

 

Yes! Here's a link to the post

(and oh gosh thank you for your comment I'm kind of overwhelmed)

 

-shrugging elaborately-

 

my Genyatta friend was sad and drawing people things is one of two (2) ways i know to express affection

 

I have been arting it up of late so this is a bit of a dump

Spoiler: sketchbook contents, 3 picture

Spoiler: painting, 1 picture

Spoiler: new sketchbook covers, two picture, second a little bloody

and sadly camera glare, it's too dark and late for taking pictures really.

 

LET'S TALK ABOUT LADY KNIGHTS! Putting this in my portfolio to hopefully help me get a job.

 

My wife gave me a new nickname. I'm using it as inspiration for a new polymer clay project. These are some concept sketches.

Fun fact: Two weeks ago, my daughter and I were sculpting together, and I was having trouble finding ideas (or doing literally anything that did not look crap). My daughter, trying to inspire me, said "Let's both build a rabbit!" I got a pretty ok body started, and then I tried to make the head and realized, bizarrely, that I could not figure out how rabbit heads worked in three dimensions. So I went around the house and found some three dimensional rabbits of various decorative purpose. I studied these stupid things and tried to form the clay into the same shapes and I absolutely. COULD NOT. Do it. I couldn't wrap my brain around the total quintessence that is rabbit heads. It was like 9th grade geometry class (which I failed spectacularly) -- I knew the formula but I couldn't make it EXIST in any tangible or rational way.

So I gave up and haven't thought about rabbits again until tonight. I... am sort of getting them?

But yeah, the thing is, for literal YEARS of my childhood, I only drew rabbits and variations upon the general structure of rabbits. Rabbits with wings, for example. Rabbits with claws. Rabbits with bits of reptile anatomy incorporated in. Rabbits with mouse ears. Rabbits with mouse tails. Rabbits, it turns out, make pretty good mice with a few minor alterations. I drew rabbits all over every page of school notes, in the margins and on the back of every test I took, and on the rare occasion when I did my homework, I invariably added a rabbit doodle signature and added rabbits into any diagrams included in the work. I loved to draw labyrinthine side-view tunnels over a whole piece of paper and fill them with an entire rabbit society, all doing different things.

[The total loss of my art -- both in terms of inspiration and in terms of technical skill -- has been a side-effect of my sobriety. It's been doing weird shit like this ever since the spiral towards rock bottom and ensuing hospitalization and recovery. It's been over 3 years now. WHEE~~~!]

In conclusion: rabbits.

 

your handwriting is super pretty

 

Thank you. You'd shit yourself if you could see how it used to look before I lost my goddamn mind. It was amazing.