Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
3 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
You remember being a kid and you'd see someone draw something cool and you'd say "hey how do you do that!" and they would say "well, it's all just circles and rectangles, and then you smudge it up a little" and they'd try to show you but it was obvio...
2 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today's #inktober prompt was "Wisp." I thought about all kinds of ideas, from baby hair to ink in a glass of water to something super abstract like fragrance. In the end I went with this extinguished candle. Again today I found myself thinking very...
2 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
I am going to try to draw something every day this month, based on the prompts for #inktober. Today's prompt was "Fish". It's fun for me to see these images about to be published, because I suddenly see all the ways the drawing isn't ready for publ...
22 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Since last post I have dismantled my engagement and moved iut if the house we shared. Recent weeks have involved unpacking into the new place and taking new furniture deliveries. I bought a Roomba and one of those optical illusion rugs that looks li...
31 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
A lot of this coursework goes so fast, and it's easy to just do what the instructor shows you once and move to the next lesson; That's basically what I did first time through. This time, though, I am spending a lot more time on revisions and adjustme...
29 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today I continued practicing wood texture, this time applying it to a 3D object. Publish0x is refusing to upload the crate as an individual photo, but I liked the way the overall sketchbook page looked, so here's that: My box is on the bottom. The w...
27 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
The thing is, it's real fun to draw wood, and it comes out pretty great. Again, I have a long long way to go before I am tricking the viewer into thinking my drawings are photographs, but I like how satisfying and relatively simple it is to draw wood...
23 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This morning, to distract myself from some terrible stuff, I went back in and did some clean-up work on my last drawing. I know it shouldn't, but it surprises me every time how much difference even tiny revisions can make. Here's a side-by-side befor...
21 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
This is built on gesture practice, but there's not so much gesture in the original pose, and it quickly turned into shading and values practice. I need to spend more time learning anatomy, for sure. Anyhow, here is today's drawing:
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
... and I am not sure I am getting better at them. Here are today's bricks: I feel like it's all about shading and value, but also probably about being more precise with my pencil strokes. I could clean up the outside some with an eraser, and maybe...
