Here it’s Wednesday, and I haven’t drawn since Friday. I’d considered catching up, but that’s not really the point of the daily drawings. At first it was two-fold: consistency and commitment (ie. finishing a drawing now and then). The challenge I’d been denying myself is sticking with one drawing beyond a sketch. Well apparently consistency itself is a challenge for now. So I’m starting again.

This time I’ll post whatever I’m drawing every day, and they may be doodles, but I hope that by removing the pressure to make something good, I’ll continue to make something. I’ll also try to make time to draw at home regularly. I just won’t limit myself to that.

To start the second series, here’s a quick drawing I made on the subway of a man I saw just outside the station, and another thing:

Later tonight I watched Empire of the Sun, which I’ve been meaning to see about my whole life. Thanks Netflix. Here’s what came out after:

It’s Hammer Time, er, war and famine time! Really should have put this on watercolor paper, but I’d set out only to sketch a pose with those pants. Also, I was just going to paint a sun, but the texture of the brush was more fun this way, and I’m sure the plethora of explosions in the film had a part in the decision.

I highly recommend the film, by the way. Some of the shots really stir the imagination, and it has me thinking along a Lord of the Flies vein, imagining the world from another dimension, practically. Crazy that it’s one world.

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I only drew one tiny thing on Wednesday. I had an idea to draw a really laid back guy in flip-flops and an open tee. I just doodled his legs and went back to playing Riven.

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Thursday I’d left for work when I realized I hadn’t brought my pad or pens/pencils for the Drawing Club. I didn’t have time to go back, so I grabbed a clipboard and some printer paper from work, and used my trusty Bic Cristal pen. I’m glad I went, as always, though I think I need to switch up my media, maybe go back onto charcoal, or get back in my anatomy books. I had a tough time expressing any character. The model was great! Very evocative of the One Million B.C. theme.

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Today on the train home I started a little animation in Animation Creator for the iPhone. I really recommend it. The tools are fast and you can upload directly to YouTube at whatever frame rate you like. Here it is after I added some frames just now to get the little guy out of frame:

I thought of it as a dreamy, floaty run when I was animating it, and it feels that way at 12fps. At 24fps the timing seems more natural, though the fluidity of movement isn’t there in the middle:

Drawn on my lunch break in a neighborhood park/electrical tower plot while listening to Brian Eno’s Deep blue Day, and similar. Drawn in ballpoint on paper, painted in Brushes on iPhone.

It’s a color study, accidentally. I drew an outline for the bigger jellyfish, but when I saw the bokeh fill without the line, I just left the line off entirely.

Four-toed [alien?] baby rampage. Rampages are all the rage.

Beyond last minute, this one is for yesterday. This is Gil-Scott Heron appearing on the 7th episode of SNL, hosted by Richard Pryor. For some reason it was really hard to draw today. I had to do other things before I was free for it, and then I just wanted to go to sleep.

One more once. Drew this one after technically going to bed, captured and shaded the background on my phone, and now it’s tomorrow.

I started mimicking the shapes of the mehve and valley gunship, without really meaning to end up with either. Whoops. Plus some Doug Chiang style domey shaped saucers. Air show…down!

I grew up being creeped out by Patrick O’Hearn’s music. The Ringmaster’s Dream kept me from mine when my folks would play it after I’d gone to bed. I loved that music, but it always unsettled me.

Well, this drawing has very little to do with that feeling. One of his tracks, Adagio from Fantasy for a Gentleman, came on the “radio” when I sat down to draw, and it gave me a feeling that got the drawing started. The atmosphere of the music also begged some color, so I bumped it into ArtRage, which I haven’t opened for quite a long time, since I have no idea how to paint with oils or acrylics.