Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 5 comments DoctorPlatypus
I've been struggling with the hands on my figures all through October, so I promised myself I would get in a lot of practice drawing hands once Inktober had ended. Here are three hand poses I drew today, on the way to learning to draw hands more reli...
2 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
There was a definite oddness in the workboot in the first version - I feel like it looked like a right shoe on a left foot, you know? So I have adjusted the angle of the sole and the shading on the side of it, and shifted the leather detailing to the...
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I've fixed the muzzle on this one.
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
In an intermediate revision, not shown, I added detail to the foreground and background. In this revision, I softened some of those details and improved others, including adding a ridge to the sandy bottom. I also removed a cave I had added to the mi...
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
In this revision, I softened the shading on the left foot and lower leg. Very simple, very small, but I think it's made a substantial difference. Probably just to my eye, I imagine, but anyhow. When I looked at the earlier version, my eye was always...
1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I spent some time this morning looking over the drawings I did for Inktober this year, and in a few cases I saw things I could fix without starting over, things that I thought might make a real difference, so I went back in with the eraser and pencil...
31 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today's #inktober prompt was "Crawl" and I thought and thought. In honor of Halloween, I considered creepy crawly vermin, but I thought maybe I wasn't that excited to spend the time studying roaches or spiders or centipedes today, enough to do justic...
30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today's #Inktober prompt was "Ominous." I considered ravens and creepy twin girls and glowing eyes peering out of the dark, and finally landed on two-headed serpent.
29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today's #inktober prompt was "Shoes": I think I need to adjust the angle of the front of the work boot upward a little bit.
28 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I've decided to skip several days and resume with today's prompt, so here is my drawing from the prompt "Float": The hand is marginally less appalling than the last hand I drew, but still needs plenty of work. I believe once #inktober is over, I wil...
