These Are Four More Art Cards I Whipped Up For The Farmer's Market. If You Got TheEat Me!anthology, You

These are four more art cards I whipped up for the farmer's market. If you got the Eat Me! anthology, you may recognise these as the leaders of the various Broth Sea tribes in my comic, The Mysterious Land of Under-Noodle. Going clockwise, these are the Wise Woman of the Noodle People, the Prime Minister of the Wonton Isles, the mightiest warrior from the Cliffs of Pork, and the Chieftain of the Lettuce Hunters.

You can tell they're the leaders because they wear the most clothes, haha.

Sketchavember 2012 - Part 3!

21 - Meilee, my adorable and awkward factory girl. She always looks pretty gormless, because people leave you alone if they think you're an idiot.

22 - Lin, who came to the same conclusion in the boy's side of the factory. Also has the misfortune of being on the back of Jemima's page, which I shaded with markers.

23 - It got to about 11:30pm and I was falling asleep, then I remembered I hadn't done a picture, so I drew Coda falling asleep.

24 - I almost got through Sketchavember without drawing Duo again. Almost.

25 - Noone, the main character of a graphic novel which I planned and then scrapped. I still want to do something with the characters though.

26 - Haha, I tried to draw a demon but he kept going wrong, so I rubbed him out and drew an angel instead, which was a million times easier. I wonder if that says anything about my psyche.

27 - Ah, here's the demon.

28 - Having developed a character model for Hephzibah, I completely failed to make one for Gorse. Oh well.

29 - A Vrega, having a nice stretch.

30 - Last but not least, Kero. Originally he was some kind of alien that resembled a demon, but I've been thinking I might just make him a sort of feral demon instead.

And that was last year's Sketchavember! I hope you enjoyed this insight into my pathological fear of drawing anything that's not people. XD

I still haven't got round to scanning my Sketchavember pics, so until then here are some observational sketches.

While my little sister was visiting here in Bath we went to the Fashion Museum. They had a timeline of dresses from 1800 to 1900 (loosely) showing the changing silhouette and the fashions for different fabrics. The ones from the early 1800s looked like the comfiest thing, but the late Victorian dresses were so stylish. There was also a special display of black evening-wear, but it wasn't very clearly labelled so I'm not sure how old one of the dresses was. I guessed 1960s, but in hindsight I think it was 1930s.

If you're wondering why the timelines go backwards... that's because I'm left-handed, so I start on the right-most edge of each page. Not ideal for chronological order.

I've been trying to practice drawing teenagers and adults in this style (I've taken to calling it 'dolly' because they remind me of dolls). I think Nettle and Spider work well this way.

If you've not encountered them before, these are two psychics. Spider is using his extremely limited psychokinesis to hold that book in the air while he reads, while Nettle is failing spectacularly at controlling her own, much stronger PK. 

In other news, I have made myself a facebook page! I'll be posting updates and stuff there for people who find it easier to follow that way.

Sketchavember 2012 - Part 1!

I missed doing Inktober because I was super-busy, so I decided to try to ink all my Sketchavember pictures instead. Last year I tried to draw all my characters, in age order, so I picked up where I left off. Then sort of wombled off topic. Anyway these are:

1 - Blackthorn, an elf in the Tolkein mold. I never did much with her but I quite like her design.

2 - Louise! She's got her own tag if you want more pictures of her. She lives in a pre-industrial time and has many encounters with fairies.

3 - Louise again. I was reading Hemlock and tried to draw her in the same style.

4 - And again! I'm not sure what happened to your face here Louise but I promise I'll never do it again! Louise is one of my characters in an arranged marriage, but she and Edward get on quite well. He doesn't believe in magic before they marry, and is much more uncomfortable with magic and the supernatural than she is.

5 - Franz, who doesn't appear very often on account of being hard to draw. He's very proud and hates showing any kind of weakness. He probably checked nobody was watching before blowing on his hands like that.

6 - Jemima, who appears more often on account of being fun to dress up.  She has very low self-esteem and is bullied by her 'friends'.

7 - And then it was Friday so I drew Marceline the Vampire Queen!

8 - Lucas didn't come out great last year, so I tried again. This is much more on-model, although I still haven't worked out where his scars go.

9 - This is Lucas's sister, Lena, who has the gift of prophecy.

10 - At this point I'd started watching Gundam Wing, and had to try very hard not to just draw fanart for every subsequent picture. I could not resist drawing everyone's favourite pilot though.

Part 2 next week!

(Yeah yeah I know Sketchavember was months ago, but my scanner is old and senile and it took me a long time to get these onto my laptop.)

Sooo... Rupert Everett came to the tea room on Monday. He had an earl grey and some coffee cake.

In other news, I'll be doing commissions at London MCM this weekend! We've started offering sketches and inked pictures at a couple of conventions, but this time I think it's just me, as Sammy's been very busy and wants to relax behind the table.

Still, we're loosely using Sammy's normal prices:

A5 sketch - £6

A5 inked - £8

A6 sketch - £4

A6 inked - £5

mini card sketch - £2 

mini card inked - £3