Voldemort – the sketch

I just posted my most recent sketch to this site: http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/139939

It’s Voldemort. And it kind of looks like the Emperor, but either way scary evil bald guys should not be underestimated. Anyway, this site is cool…but the more i try to work on fine details the more frustrated i get. the brushes take weird angles at times when i don’t understand. And some colors are way stronger than others. And don’t get me started on the white. Still…a very fun site, and fun challenges to work around.

the grudge sketch

ok, i can’t say enough about this site: http://sketch.odopod.com/ its hypnotic.

It records your sketches then plays them back for you. here’s one I did of the Grudge : http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/137619

The Emperor Sketch

Click here for the line by line retelling of this sketch: the Emperor Sketch

the Mad Hatter Sketch

ok, again…this website records your drawings and then plays them back,…line for line. It’s hypnotic. This is a quick “Mad Hatter” as played by Johnny Depp sketch: CLICK HERE FOR THE MAD HATTER SKETCH

the Joker sketch

I found this most incredible website. It records your sketch as you draw it and plays it back stroke by stroke. This was a test. The Joker, CLICK HERE: http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/136686

Jenny Greenteeth

I am not sure where the recent “water-inspired” themes have come from, but this one might be one of my favorite drawings to date.

Jenny Greenteeth…the first time I saw anything about this fairly obscure folktale was in Alan Lee & Briand Froud’s “faeries.” An amazing book. No shit, I drew every picture in that book over and over it was amazing.

anyway here’s the wikipedia version of Jenny:

Jenny Greenteeth is a figure in English folklore. A river hag, similar to Peg Powler, she would pull children or the elderly into the water and drown them. She was often described as green-skinned, with long hair, and sharp teeth. She is called Jinny Greenteeth in Lancashire, but in Cheshire and Shropshire she is called Ginny Greenteeth, Jeannie Greenteeth, Wicked Jenny, or Peg o’ Nell.

She is likely to have been an invention to frighten children from dangerous waters similar to the Slavic Rusalka, the Kappa in Japanese mythology, or Australia’s Bunyip, but other folklorists have seen her as a memory of sacrificial practices.

This myth stood out to me as particularly haunting because of its obscurity…this was not the Boogey man, Sasquatch or anything else so obvious. It was just…some missing people.

Who…could…have …

been taken by a water demon.

I guess

dont go near the river.

 

 

 

 

Drown

drowning. Got all these arms but they’re useless. Lack of oxygen and perspective brings you down. I guess the alienation gets you there to begin with…but…alienation and extra, but useless, limbs are probably one in the same.

Persephone

This is pretty straightforward. Persephone. Above her; Cerberus (the 3 headed Guardian of the gates of the Underworld) and underneath her (you have to rotate the image 180 – then he’s in the upper Left corner) is Hades. Those are his claws surrounding her. I thought if she were naked, it would make her seem that much more vulnerable and in stark contrast to the fangs and claws etc surrounding her.

The story goes…she was picking flowers. Hades (ruler of the underworld) stole her and took her to his kingdom. She was eventually returned to her mother, Demeter, but 4 months out of the year she has to return to the Underworld. While she is gone her mother is so sad that she lets everything on Earth die until her daughter returns. And that’s how we have winter.

Sad story…but she was loved.

ying med

Its hard for me to go out sometimes. Not severe or incapacitating, just hard. Even when i want to. So this picture is me, trying to get outside of myself so that I can go outside. There’s more color in this image than i usually use because i wanted the outside world to look inviting. You can’t really tell from this picture…but that couch is fairly uncomfortable.

Sketch Elements

Here are some initial pieces of sketches I used for Whereigo and After side. This is obviously before I start mucking them up and literally trying to hide my own art.