Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
20 Oct 2022 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
I am a day ahead for Inktober today! I am also pretty happy with all four of today's drawings. Day 17: Salty I am still having a little trouble shading with colored pencils, so the ones where I primarily use colored pencils still sometimes look a...
17 Oct 2022 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Day 14: Empty This was the third is a string of very abstract prompt words, and I wasn't initially sure what to draw. I considered drawing a famous moron and shining a flashlight in one of his ears so the light would come out the other ear, but it tu...
13 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Day 12: Forget 'Forget' is such an abstract prompt that it really requires some sort of symbolic interpretation. It's not like there's a literal image to be drawn of a person forgetting something, at least not where the viewer could tell exactly what...
11 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I seem to be drawing beloved children's characters this year for Inktober. :D Day 10: Crabby It was REAL satisfying drawing this one - Lucy shouting has been my mood for a few days haha. Day 11: Eagle I think next time I try to draw Sam I will choo...
10 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I was away on vacation for a bit, but still working on Inktober drawings. Day 6: Bouquet I am mostly very pleased with this one - I especially like the way the light reflects on the glass and that his hand looks reasonable, like it's cupping a glas...
6 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
With these two pictures, I have caught up on Inktober :D Day 4: Scallop Yesterday's prompt was 'scallop': I am real happy with how the upper shell came out, and pretty happy with the lower part. I feel like the interior of the scallop would benefit...
5 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Inktober 2022 has begun, and I am already behind haha. I'm going to try to draw something every day in October based on the #inktober prompts, and will post my drawings - I'll aim for every day, but we'll see how that works out. You can see how it's...
22 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This week (when I demanded an assignment) my friend Kuniko said "I know! Draw a dragon!" and I went looking at dragons on the Google to find reference. Of course, because of the conspiracy, there are no photos on the internet of Actual Dragons, so th...
8 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This evening my Wednesday evening art zoom met again for the first week in a few weeks, and I wanted to draw something that was more or less a complete picture, rather than some sort of simpler exercise. I went looking for reference photos, and came...
28 Jul 2022 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
During October 2020, as part of Inktober, one of the prompt words was "rip" and I chose to draw a picture of the iconic Captain Kirk with his goldenrod shirt torn and hanging down across his chest. I had a lot of trouble with his hand, and overall he...
