No Fanfare

No Fanfare

(Markes and digital colour)

A blast from the past.

Ginger Cactus 1 & 2

Ginger Cactus 1

(Markers and digital colour)

Ginger Cactus 2

(Markers and digital colour)

Looking though my other digital cartoons and illustrations, I came across these two, produced for, but not used by an online group. Time to get them out there.

 

Blottosaur

 Blottosaur

(Mixed media, blot, Photoshop)

I made this creature as part of an online workshop but left it in an unfinished fashion. Today's idle moment saw me put a few final touches to it.

Inktober2020 - Wisp

 

Wisp Revisited

(markers and digital colour)

So far, I'm enjoying following the official prompts from Inktober2020, though there's no doubt that with my determination to revisit each black and white drawing and apply colour, I'm giving myself quite a bit of work to do.

Wisp

(markers in sketchbook)

Inktober2020 - Fish

 

Fish (Revisited)

(markers and Photoshop)

It's hard to believe it's been a year since I last drew a cartoon, but then it's been a pretty weird year so far. Despite all the controversy around Inktober, I thought I'd give it a go again, so following the first prompt, I drew the Fish below. 

Not content with that, however, I reworked it again with digital colour and a photo of fish I took in Valencia, and the result is above.

Inktober 2019 - The Castle Drawings

Well, Inktober 2019 came round and because I'd missed Inktober 2018 by virtue of being hard at work in Crete, I determined to give this year's event a go. However, I have a poor track record in keeping up with challenges and even this first drawing came unwillingly. I simply sat down and drew what came into my head. 

And that's how it went for a week, but I became conscious of how much thought I was actually giving to each successive drawing, willing it into a series. And so, after a week I gave up. I'll post the other six drawings below, but as they're so clearly cartoons rather than serious drawings, I'm also posting them here on The Cartoonist's Hat as well as on Boogie Street.

All were drawn with a Pilot disposable fountain pen in a Pink Pig square sketchbook.

Whimsical Town

Whimsical Town

(Watercolour, watercolour pencils, markers, 

coloured pencils in 195x195 mm sketchbook)

Here's my "Whimsical Town", produced quite quickly this afternoon for the Sketchbook Revival Facebook Group.

Pavement Crack Creature

Pavement Crack Creature

(mixed media in 195x195 mm sketchbook)

I'm having fun with some projects set up by the Sketchbook Revival Facebook Group. The challenge here was to find a creature by following the cracks in a pavement photograph. 

For a Monster from the Id, he's not too frightening.

Curt's Coffee Cups

(Black marker and digital colour)

I did this for a fanzine article but sadly missed the deadline. So here it is, devoid of context, just because I like it.

Illustration Friday - Olympics

(marker and digital colour)

Illustration Friday provides another opportunity to rake around in the cartoon barrel and dig up this old one for this week's topic - Olympics.

Illustration Friday - Mythology

(Black marker and digital colour)

Still digging into the archives for this offering to Illustration Friday for their topic - Mythology.

Illustration Friday - Blue

(Black marker with digital colour)

The logo I did for a convention, now slightly reworked for last week's Illustration Friday's topic: Blue.

Illustration Friday - The Letter A

(Black marker with digital colour)

Previously published here as "The Definite Article" just for the fun of it and now conveniently recycled for this week's Illustration Friday challenge - "The Letter A".

Map

Map

(Black marker, collage and digital colour)

While I'm waiting for the flood of comments on my recent suggestion, here's a contribution to this week's Illustration Friday brief - Map.

Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It

The Last Cake before the New Year Diet

(black marker in 14x14 cm sketchbook, digital colour)

Happy New Year to one and all! 

In Another Place, I took a little time to count up the paintings and sketchbook drawings I did in 2017. For various reasons, the grand total came to around 30, not a particularly impressive number but I expect next year's to be better.

And then I thought:

"Maybe I should do the same thing for my cartoons." 

Hmm. Can it really be that I did none in the whole of 2017? I know I reworked one or two and added some digital colour to some others but it does seem as if my Cartoonist's Hat fell down the back of the sofa at some time.

At the top of this post is yesterday's sketchbook drawing of a cake. I've posted it here because I think it could also come under the heading of "Illustration" and one of the things it illustrates is the way I think the strands of my work are gradually drawing together.

So: does it make any sense to continue running two separate blogs? My inclination is to close this one down and simply post everything on Boogie Street. Cartoons and paintings are just as much a part of what goes to make me as were last year's daily entries from My Dad's Diary.

Comments welcome.

YouTubers

(Black marker and digital colour)

Greetings Cards

Time to announce that you can now buy Greetings Cards based on my paintings and cartoons from LoveFromTheArtist.com . 

Go on, you know you want to!

Illustration Friday : Time Travel

The Definite Article

Happy New Year!