Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	Sugar Water, Cibo Matto

I go through phases of drawing lots and then not drawing lots. Today I drew lots.





I had a lot of fun with this. I didn't use any refs,so her ears and mane and stripes are pretty wonky. Very very happy with the anatomy in this one (though the feet were really bad, which is why they are missing here).



Poodles are completely awesome. They have this neurotic, hyperfocused intense energy around them, almost kind of wild. Even the really gentle ones have this sense of like giant snappy coiled springs, to me (maybe it's the electrified hairdo). And they have very long, pointy mouths with lots of long teeth, I know two black one who are crazy and they remind me of velociraptors.

This is a small image, about four inches tall.



more unicorns auuugh! This was inking practice. I have been training as a caricature artist , and it has taught me some useful tricks for getting the clean, sharp lines. I have always sed pens similarly to pencils, which can be great if you like the messy, scribbly look . . . but sometimes I really want comic book clean outlines, and I couldn't get them. Now I know that you have to bear down pretty hard on the tip of the pen (I used micron for this, .05) to break it in and get it flexible, and to get a good, bold line on the first stroke. I had been going over and over lines to make them thick, and while it can work and is often necessary, it's a lot easier to get line variation by pressing down hard and tapering the edges by pulling the pen along the paper. If that makes any sense :p

I really like his MANE. Unicorns are the BOMB.

Peace out, yo.