Space, the final front ear?

OK, groan if you want to :P

But a visit here made me realise that I'd posted this on LiveJournal but not on here which is terribly remiss of me.

Market

It's been a while since I've posted anything and I still haven't got round to scanning in anything recent so I thought I'd post another rat picture from some time ago. I know in the back of my mind I'd like to do a cartoon strip starting from this but the inspiration never quite sees the light of day - at least not yet.

Mugging

At lot has been happening recently and it has left me feeling rather unsettled. So I thought this was the opportunity to post a picture in which I was trying to instill a definite sense of menace. The inspiration for this actually came not from the situation but from the rocks. I was given a book called the Artist's Handbook and in there is a chapter on the technique of crosshatching. I tried it on a rock and then the whole picture poured out of that.

I've been rummaging again ...

As I'm not ready to post the drawings from the last few weeks and I've been woefully unorganised in preparing Bryce things to post, I went looking in my really old files to find some of the first rats I did. None of them were 'drawn', instead they were done using Flash as they were supposed to be animations. The animations are so utterly awful that nothing will convince me to post them, but the basic pictures are historical evidence I guess!

Sillyness

This is just a watercolour & ink thing I did ages ago - I love surreal humour in art, artists like Simon Drew and Kliban and I know it's influenced me a lot.

Also, I've decided to just put a rat in the page template for this blog and be done with it ... Buboe here needs his moment of glory.

I'm busy working on too many pictures at once right now and none of them are finished so here's a little rat I found wandering about unaccompanied ... I think he's lost.

It will become increasingly obvious that I have this obsession with rats ...

So while I work out the deep and meaningful things I want to say about my deep and meaningful Bryce artwork I'll continue posting some old sketches, like this one of Count Ratula which was originally drawn for a friend who wanted a vampire rat. I know that the pipe organ is wrong because the holes are meant to be at the bottom, but hey, it's done in pen, so tough. I guess its purpose should be to teach me that just because something's not perfect doesn't mean that it has no value. Or that some things just aren't fixable and that you have to deal with that. Or something.



Anyway, I'm busy trying to work out how (now) to draw a cow ...