I Forgot To Photograph Any Of These Before Posting Them, So Im Glad Sammy Took Pictures! Poppet Thinks

I forgot to photograph any of these before posting them, so I’m glad Sammy took pictures! Poppet thinks Nisse is a Tomtenisse and Lis is probably a Domovoi. Here in the south we have Lob-Lie-By-The-Fire, which is nowhere near as cute as Poppet, but just as helpful.

Just casually assume everyone is as obsessively well-informed about Gorillaz as we are. XD

Last summer I kept asking sarahfogg if Poppet (WTTMW?) and Nisse (Hilda series) and Lis (Seconds) were all the same kind of house fairy thing, so Poppet made me a chapbook explaining a bunch of different types of house fairy from all over Europe. It’s super cute, Poppet is the cutest. (the book is mini comic size, like A7?) (here in the midlands we have House Hobs - just like Poppet! :D)

The bottom photo is of a hand made notebook, with a quote from Bananaz …. I realised we filled last years music zine with Bananaz quotes but then never explained where they were actually from. X’D

I’m back! Just in time for Inktober! We had a family medical crisis over the Summer, so between that and a tiring Summer job I haven’t been able to do much drawing at all. Even out of these little ones, only the Ginkgo was drawn over the Summer itself. Still, things have calmed down a bit now, so I thought I’d post a few photos of the decent drawings I do have before Inktober starts tomorrow.

Inktober 2015 - Day 8 : ink and water Sweetpea is having fun with the autumn leaves on his tree.

I wish I’d had time to do a better background, but this will do I suppose. Sweetpea himself looks pretty cute even with a lazy background.

I’ve been working on some illustrations for The Spook’s Apprentice to put in my portfolio, since my book illustrations are a bit scant at the moment.

Originally I planned to use my gel pen for finer hatching like I usually do, but I have some older pieces done that way that I’m still pleased with, so I tried thicker hatching using my mapping pen instead. I think it looks pretty good so far. I’m also trying to be a bit more creative with composition. I’ll probably do three full page illustrations and three insets, and then pick the best ones out of those.

Some more pictures from before I fell off the face of the earth. I’ve had trouble with my eyes for a year or so now, and at one point I tried to draw what it felt like in the hopes of finding out what was wrong. Turns out I was just going short-sighted, and had noticed about 18 months before I needed a prescription (the prescription is still only half a dioptre), it’s nice to finally know what was happening. My small sketchbook was apparently the only paper I had to hand at some point, since I seem to have written notes on it.

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