2007 art roundup
I'm at home rather than at a party, mostly because I'm not much of a party person but it also has the advantage that I can soothe my rats through their first New Year's Eve explosions experience. So far they seem thoroughly unconcerned with all the loud noises and flashes outside, but then they usually are pretty good about distinguishing sounds outside that don't bother them and ones coming from the inside, that may pose a threat. Actually I'm wincing far more often than they at some of the sudden really loud fireworks.
So I thought I'd occupy myself with listing the stuff I drew this past year. Overall I have posted even less art in 2007 than in 2006, especially full fledged artwork. However I managed to draw a bunch of drawbles and such on request, and also did some drawing exercises, though the latter not as regularly as I intended to. I guess my New Year's resolution will be to restart posting exercise suggestions to slothsdraw, and to actually do them regularly myself this time around, rather than just one or two in a haphazard fashion.
Anyway, here's a chronological list of all things I've drawn this year:
January
I did a drawble meme, filling 15 requests for quick sketches based on people's LJ interests (that was before the LJ interest-based deletion mess, so people still had fun interests listed):
space jellyfish + pirates for penknife
drop the pilot for liviapenn
squid + fence-chaining for isiscolo
robin + pilates for smittywing
power rangers + cats for dragovianknight
ratchicken + bohemian style for littlegreenworm
tintin + wallace and gromit for retsuko
gay unicorn for brown_betty
giant nazi robots for caia_comica
hamtaro + ac/dc for leaper182
metallicar + metaphorical camel-fucking for marinarusalka
dragons + snuggling for kindyll
crossdressing + puppies! for spikeface
llamas + star wars for eruthros
flash + gravity for iamza
February
Emo!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
March
Tim and Kon kissing (DCU), which I think has been my most popular drawing this year, even though it was done rather quickly. Not that it had that much competition... It was also the first time I've drawn something completely with my tablet rather than with a pencil basis.
Rodney!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
April
Bob (Dresden Files bookverse), for which I tried lots of digital painting things like textures and gradients for the first time.
May
HarryDresden!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
June
Nothing at all. :(
July
a Spider-Man/Daredevil doodle for a Marvel universe kissing meme
a Tim/Steph doodle for a DCU kissing meme
Two-Face!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
I offered drawbles based on prompts -- playing with LJ interests wasn't an option any longer, because many had deleted them by then, so due to the prompts more of these are fannish (I also did all of them directly with my tablet for practice with that rather than doing pencil drawings like before):
"teddy bear + tentacle rape" given as an example
"John+Rodney kissing in a puddlejumper" for purelyironic
"something having at least John Sheppard in it" for _inbetween_
"a suggestive pile of discarded weaponry/accessories" for thete1
"a furry-creature-type Doctor" for lcsbanana
"J'onn wearing his 'John Jones' trenchcoat (but with at least some of his aaalien showing, either shape-wise, or with his skin being green, or the eyes -- or all three) caught mid-conversation with Officer Dick Grayson" for buggery
"Anakin and Obi-Wan art" for imadra_blue
"a leprechaun squidbaby" for pho999
"items accidentally left in the back seat of the Metallicar" for marinarusalka
August
14 monster drawings most based on requests ( 13 here, one Purple People Eater posted later here)
Ronon!RatCReature creature doodle for an icon
Connor Hawke, i.e. Green Arrow II (DCU)
Borg!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
September
facial expression practice, a drawing exercise
random objects drawn first from memory, then with reference, a visual memory/drawing exercise
stick figures moving, drawing exercise
Nightwing patrolling Gotham (DCU), a drawing excercise for practicing silhouettes
rendering textures, a drawing exercise
body language practice, a drawing exercise
a nine panel comic page as practice in establishing mood visually, a drawing exercise
October
rendering of a monster in different color combinations, a drawing exercise, though I didn't actually draw anything new, I just played with color effects
November
Zuko!RatCreature and Aang!RatCreature creature doodles for icons
December
It's not posted yet, but I managed to finish my Yuletart assignment in time (w00t!). Which is a good thing because defaulting on the only exchange I signed up for would have made me want die of shame and vanish from the internets forever, and I'm quite attached to my pseud, not to mention that I suck at both merely lurking and at creating sockpuppets, so disappearing would have been hard on me and my fannish internet addiction.
So in conclusion, if I extend "drawing" to include all doodles, icon sketches and drawing exercises, no matter how quick or lame, I have drawn and posted something almost every month. If I only count "proper" artwork, my output was far less, but at least I tried a couple of new things, especially digitally, and I made an attempt to practice more regularly, even if my slackerdom caught up with me again quickly.
So I thought I'd occupy myself with listing the stuff I drew this past year. Overall I have posted even less art in 2007 than in 2006, especially full fledged artwork. However I managed to draw a bunch of drawbles and such on request, and also did some drawing exercises, though the latter not as regularly as I intended to. I guess my New Year's resolution will be to restart posting exercise suggestions to slothsdraw, and to actually do them regularly myself this time around, rather than just one or two in a haphazard fashion.
Anyway, here's a chronological list of all things I've drawn this year:
January
I did a drawble meme, filling 15 requests for quick sketches based on people's LJ interests (that was before the LJ interest-based deletion mess, so people still had fun interests listed):
space jellyfish + pirates for penknife
drop the pilot for liviapenn
squid + fence-chaining for isiscolo
robin + pilates for smittywing
power rangers + cats for dragovianknight
ratchicken + bohemian style for littlegreenworm
tintin + wallace and gromit for retsuko
gay unicorn for brown_betty
giant nazi robots for caia_comica
hamtaro + ac/dc for leaper182
metallicar + metaphorical camel-fucking for marinarusalka
dragons + snuggling for kindyll
crossdressing + puppies! for spikeface
llamas + star wars for eruthros
flash + gravity for iamza
February
Emo!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
March
Tim and Kon kissing (DCU), which I think has been my most popular drawing this year, even though it was done rather quickly. Not that it had that much competition... It was also the first time I've drawn something completely with my tablet rather than with a pencil basis.
Rodney!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
April
Bob (Dresden Files bookverse), for which I tried lots of digital painting things like textures and gradients for the first time.
May
HarryDresden!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
June
Nothing at all. :(
July
a Spider-Man/Daredevil doodle for a Marvel universe kissing meme
a Tim/Steph doodle for a DCU kissing meme
Two-Face!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
I offered drawbles based on prompts -- playing with LJ interests wasn't an option any longer, because many had deleted them by then, so due to the prompts more of these are fannish (I also did all of them directly with my tablet for practice with that rather than doing pencil drawings like before):
"teddy bear + tentacle rape" given as an example
"John+Rodney kissing in a puddlejumper" for purelyironic
"something having at least John Sheppard in it" for _inbetween_
"a suggestive pile of discarded weaponry/accessories" for thete1
"a furry-creature-type Doctor" for lcsbanana
"J'onn wearing his 'John Jones' trenchcoat (but with at least some of his aaalien showing, either shape-wise, or with his skin being green, or the eyes -- or all three) caught mid-conversation with Officer Dick Grayson" for buggery
"Anakin and Obi-Wan art" for imadra_blue
"a leprechaun squidbaby" for pho999
"items accidentally left in the back seat of the Metallicar" for marinarusalka
August
14 monster drawings most based on requests ( 13 here, one Purple People Eater posted later here)
Ronon!RatCReature creature doodle for an icon
Connor Hawke, i.e. Green Arrow II (DCU)
Borg!RatCreature creature doodle for an icon
September
facial expression practice, a drawing exercise
random objects drawn first from memory, then with reference, a visual memory/drawing exercise
stick figures moving, drawing exercise
Nightwing patrolling Gotham (DCU), a drawing excercise for practicing silhouettes
rendering textures, a drawing exercise
body language practice, a drawing exercise
a nine panel comic page as practice in establishing mood visually, a drawing exercise
October
rendering of a monster in different color combinations, a drawing exercise, though I didn't actually draw anything new, I just played with color effects
November
Zuko!RatCreature and Aang!RatCreature creature doodles for icons
December
It's not posted yet, but I managed to finish my Yuletart assignment in time (w00t!). Which is a good thing because defaulting on the only exchange I signed up for would have made me want die of shame and vanish from the internets forever, and I'm quite attached to my pseud, not to mention that I suck at both merely lurking and at creating sockpuppets, so disappearing would have been hard on me and my fannish internet addiction.
So in conclusion, if I extend "drawing" to include all doodles, icon sketches and drawing exercises, no matter how quick or lame, I have drawn and posted something almost every month. If I only count "proper" artwork, my output was far less, but at least I tried a couple of new things, especially digitally, and I made an attempt to practice more regularly, even if my slackerdom caught up with me again quickly.