Late night drawing

Sometimes a title just explains it all

Its a bit far in the night right now but luckily I got a drawing finished for today. Call me odd, but everytime I do the update for thursday I make it in the very first hours of the day. I'll even wait until the clock clicks past the 24:00 of wednesday before I actually update the blog. Just so I can say the blog has been updated as soon as possible on the thursday.

Today's drawing was born with a few odd lines that appeard to make a stick with a sphere on. After that, I made the stick a weapon of somebody. But soon the body was finished and I drew the masked head. I didn't feel like drawing a face. And once I apparently had drawn a voodoo man it seemed he needed something good on top of his staff. It turned out to be a dead fish.

The masked fisher by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

Early in the morning

I'm not used to sleeping on the roadside of a house.

Yes, this weekend I got to sleep in a room that was at the side of the road, not the side of the garden. So when I woke up that morning, one off the first thing I noticed were the cars that drove by. Another thing was a very peculiar sound. At first I didn't know what it was. But after clearing my head of the sleepy fog, I recognised it as the sound of birds.

I might have to include the fact that I had woken up at 12 a clock the day before. So with a lack of tiredness and cars next to me I decided it was time to wake up. It was 6:25. (I'm not familiar with the a.m. or p.m. so I wont bother with it) Suffice it to say it was early by my standards.

So once I was awake I tried to find some entertainment. Watching cars drive by can only keep you entertained for so long. The granny who walked from one side of the road to the other also didn't spark my enthousiasm.

The giant tractor with its rumbling cargo did get my attention. Though its hard to ignore something that roars next to the house like it's trying to recreate an earthquake. So when all else failed I resigned to my sketchbook. Its a good thing that drawing takes time. Cause once I started sketching, time flew by a just little bit faster.

The results is a random character with some random clothes and a spoofy weapon. The clothes are based on what I have seen this week at work and the weapon is just.. spoofy. Maybe wicked and wacky might be a better word for the weapon. But "spoofy" seems more like a word that fits the describtion off the weapon.

Once I had finished the static pose drawing I figured it might be a bit better to draw an action scene. Preferably with the same character. So on the other page I stared off with an s-curve which I transformed into the motion of the figure. The only change was with the weapon.

Copying the characters clothes and stuff was easier then making a duplicate of the weapon she was carying. So creating a new weapon was the easiest way out. Yes, you could say I was lazy, but hey what else am I suposed to be doing on a lazy morning. And besides, the new weapon actually shoots stars!

Visiting Prague

Somewhere there is a statue in Prague, reaching out to the sky.

A few years ago I went to Prague. Some schooltrip. On one of the days we had two options. It was either going to some fortress/army camp or going shopping. Me and three other people went to visit the castle. The rest of the school (about 30 or more other kids) went shopping.

During the visit I saw some interesting buildings and the guide/teacher had some good backstories about the stuff we saw. Somewhere in or by the camp there was also a cemetery. And since the photo that I drew was right beside the photos from that cemetery I'm guessing it was a statue from some grave over there. But frankly, I could be wrong.

Reaching out in Prague by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

Lazy and distracted

All reading comics and no drawing makes Stijn a dull boy.

Yes, today I have spend most of my time reading this webcomic. It starts as a normal comic. Over time however it just keeps on getting better. More details, more stuff happening at the same time, interesting ways of showing actions and experiences. Overall a good webcomic. So I definatly recommend it to you. A little WARNING though, its very bloody!

In other news this is the sketch of today.

Capturing gold

In Zero Gravity, liquid gold is in the form of a sphere.

For this Thursday update I was checking out some previous drawings I had on my computer. I figured I could redraw an older drawing that I had made. It would save me some troubles, for instance: less troubles with finding a propper subject. After trying to fix the old pose in the new one I realised it couldn't possibley work.

So I changed ideas and just used the armor from the old drawing as inspiration for the new one. The character however is still the same. Some redhead space traveling soldier.

Capture gold by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

So now I have a drawing that is anatomicaly very flawed. The twist off the body is very akward. Mostly since I have NO reference material whatsoever. I was just guessing really. Guessing how the body would turn like that. Sure, I could check my own body, but that's a bit hard to do. I might need a mirror. Or just some good old fashioned victim who can pose for me.

But anyway, here's the older drawing that I used for the armor. Though I guess not much is left of the original.

Rain

When it wasn't raining today, there was still a bit of rain.

I was on the bus while drawing this thingy bellow. There was this big motorhome that wanted to go to the right while the bus was still riding next to it. Needles to say that didn't go very well. Very odd indeed. For you people who drive on the left side of the road: we drive on the right in Belgium.

One day I might draw a better pirate ninja with robot arms. But for now this sketch will have to do. The head is to big and the legs might be a bit bigger. I do like the arms. Though they aren't very good for battle. Those wires that stick out could get damaged by some knife or other weapon. So that would be a design flaw. A deadly design flaw.

Reviving the computer

I don't like viruses, and I don't like them infecting my computer.

Cause you know, whenever I'm in such a situation I have to format my drive, and reinstall all the sheblam. Winamp, avg, internet explorer and necesary updates. And then I have to uninstall all the crap that gets installed on the computer from that recovery disk. Yeah, laptops, great stuff, but terrible on the extra software they provide.

Luckily I was able to get a drawing done for todays update. It took me about an hour to draw this. I drew this from a photograph that I had taken when I was in Norway some years ago. On a holliday with my parents in a motorhome. Awesome trip I can tell you. I took the photo with one of them analoge camera's. Yeah, nothing digital at all. Darn kids and them modern toys.

So years later, today I was browsing through my photographs to look for a decent thingy to draw. I removed a few objects from the photo. There was a tree on the right, in front of the "Stave church" and some pillar was in the grass blocking the view, so that got deleted too. But besides that everything else stayed in it.

Norwegian stave church by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

I also decided to use this oppertunity to make a speeddrawing of it. So instead of a cartoon speed drawing, there is now a "realistic" speed painting available. Hopefully to your enjoyment. Though the quality could be better. But my windows movie maker on my computer failed at the moment that I was making it. But that should be fixed by the next time.

In other news, the music used is from the game "system shock 2" In my fair opinion, one of the best games ever conceived.