Fan art: Ambush Bug, plus 2014's art summary
I was so annoyed by hardly having drawn anything in December, so yesterday, with just a handful of hours of 2014 remaining, I told myself "You know what, just draw. Draw the first idea that pops into your head."
I already made a post about how much I like the Superman-villain-turned-fourth-wall-breaking-trickster-character called Ambush Bug. Besides, I've been drawing so many beefcake characters this year I quite enjoyed the slender simplicity of A.B. I even finished it in just a few hours, so for once I kept to a deadline with several hours to spare.
Somehow this turned out more artistic-looking than I'd meant it to. Something about the colours, I don't know. Maybe people will look at it and search for a deeper meaning when literally all I was going for was "superheroes doing common everyday life activities is kinda funny I guess".
I suppose this must be eighties-era Ambush Bug, because around the time he got his first mini he started wearing a full outfit over his own costume.
Do bus stops even look like that in America? It dawns on me that the "lone pole with a bus sign and a framed set of timetables" thing exposes how rurally Norwegian I am.
As for looking back on 2014 -- I'd rather not. I'm gonna post my art progression through the year because I'm pretty proud of that, but as for everything else... 2014 was probably the worst year of my life. Complete shit. A downward spiral from beginning to end. I spend so much time crying about the stuff that happened in 2014 I see no reason to write it here while crying some more and then seeing the post later and crying about it again. It was a terrible, awful, no-good year and I'm hoping 2015 will be better, though to be honest I'm not very optimistic about it. Maybe things will change, I don't know.
But I did draw!
(I'm Slett, it's become another one of my internet aliases these last few years and I couldn't be bothered to change the graphic.)
Okay so maybe I haven't pushed myself artistically or experimented as much as I intended to this year -- seeing a lot of busts and people in profile here. And I still don't draw enough so that you can clearly see a progression month to month. But you know what, I'm a better artist than I was a year ago, and there's this thing that has started happening when I draw, where I sketch something out, and I think "Jesus Christ this is looking better than I thought it would! I had no idea I could do this!" and I'm excited about drawing, about seeing my own skills improve. That's something right.
And I'm still so proud of that Blue Beetle image from May. The hardest I've ever worked on a drawing. And that eighth Doctor from July is looking better than I remembered it, I should definitely revisit that style again.
I already made a post about how much I like the Superman-villain-turned-fourth-wall-breaking-trickster-character called Ambush Bug. Besides, I've been drawing so many beefcake characters this year I quite enjoyed the slender simplicity of A.B. I even finished it in just a few hours, so for once I kept to a deadline with several hours to spare.
Somehow this turned out more artistic-looking than I'd meant it to. Something about the colours, I don't know. Maybe people will look at it and search for a deeper meaning when literally all I was going for was "superheroes doing common everyday life activities is kinda funny I guess".
I suppose this must be eighties-era Ambush Bug, because around the time he got his first mini he started wearing a full outfit over his own costume.
Do bus stops even look like that in America? It dawns on me that the "lone pole with a bus sign and a framed set of timetables" thing exposes how rurally Norwegian I am.
As for looking back on 2014 -- I'd rather not. I'm gonna post my art progression through the year because I'm pretty proud of that, but as for everything else... 2014 was probably the worst year of my life. Complete shit. A downward spiral from beginning to end. I spend so much time crying about the stuff that happened in 2014 I see no reason to write it here while crying some more and then seeing the post later and crying about it again. It was a terrible, awful, no-good year and I'm hoping 2015 will be better, though to be honest I'm not very optimistic about it. Maybe things will change, I don't know.
But I did draw!
(I'm Slett, it's become another one of my internet aliases these last few years and I couldn't be bothered to change the graphic.)
Okay so maybe I haven't pushed myself artistically or experimented as much as I intended to this year -- seeing a lot of busts and people in profile here. And I still don't draw enough so that you can clearly see a progression month to month. But you know what, I'm a better artist than I was a year ago, and there's this thing that has started happening when I draw, where I sketch something out, and I think "Jesus Christ this is looking better than I thought it would! I had no idea I could do this!" and I'm excited about drawing, about seeing my own skills improve. That's something right.
And I'm still so proud of that Blue Beetle image from May. The hardest I've ever worked on a drawing. And that eighth Doctor from July is looking better than I remembered it, I should definitely revisit that style again.