Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
18 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Caught up as of today! Yesterday's Inktober prompt was 'collide' and I thought very seriously about drawing the large hadron collider, but it turns out it's very intricate to look at, with not a lot of contrast, and I was confident that my sketch wou...
17 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Two today. The prompt for October 15 was 'helmet' and I opted for Dark Helmet: It doesn't look much like Rick Moranis, but I can catch some of that during November revisions if I want to. The prompt for the sixteenth was 'compass' and I wasn't that...
15 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Drew two sketches today; slowly catching up. The prompt for 10/13 was 'Roof'. I rejected the architectural sense of the word pretty quickly. At some point I need to spend some time practicing building cityscapes and buildings and stuff, but for now...
15 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
Still a couple days behind, so today I drew the prompt from 10/12, 'stuck': This is straight-up fan art, and I am super happy with how it came out. It's not perfect, but I think it's totally recognizable and iconic. The disney cel has plants and st...
14 Oct 2021 1 minute read 5 comments DoctorPlatypus
I went away for the weekend and fell a few days behind in my daily discipline, so today I am playing catch-up. Probably tomorrow too. The prompt for October 9 was 'pressure' and I spent a bunch of time thinking about images that evoke feelings of pre...
8 Oct 2021 1 minute read 3 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today's prompt is 'watch'. I considered wristwatches and pocketwatches, of course, and general timepieces like a nice big grandfather clock, etc, but I wasn't that excited. I thought about a city watch like in a medieval-setting RPG or a neighborhood...
7 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today the inktober prompt is 'fan'. If I were a responsible scholar I would have drawn a bunch of Maenads ripping some dude to shreds to acknowledge the origin of the word 'fan' (sense of movie fan or Beatles fan, etc) in 'fanatic'. But that sounded...
7 Oct 2021 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Today's prompt is 'spirit', and I am guessing that there will be lots of ghosts and the like drawn today. I thought about 'spirit of the age' too, maybe I could draw a vintage airplane? One of my friends said she would probably draw a cheerleader, wh...
5 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
Day 4 prompt was "Knot" and I was reminded of an informal celestial navigation lesson I sat in on back in high school. The day I sat in, the lesson didn't include anything about actually navigating by the stars; instead we learned to make monkey fist...
3 Oct 2021 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today's Inktober prompt was 'vessel', and I eventually settled on the vessel with the pestle, which has the brew that is true: I would love to go back at some point and focus in just on the faces. I can almost recognize Danny Kaye from this face, bu...
