The Portable Moon

Fri Oct 27

October 27 - Dragon Deconstruction

Dragon Deconstruction

What I am learning from these exercises is when to erase and when I am just being hyper-critical. There are valid reasons to erase some or all of a drawing, the importance is understanding why. For example, here, the legs have been cropped out (this is mostly due to formatting for certain social media) but I would definitely redraw the legs and the wings. The wings so that they can better match…


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Thu Oct 26

October 26 - Tabby

Tabby

I started with the eyes, not really sure what I was drawing. I swear though that the cat had a chin before I scanned it in!


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Wed Oct 25

October 25 - One Punch

One Punch

I started out wanting to practice drawing action poses with some of my comic characters. Then part way through I realized that I messed up the drawing but because one of my self-imposed rules of this exercise is not to erase anything, I tried to make due. What did I learn? I learned that foreshortening stuffed animals is challenging, and that I should draw a character model before trying to draw…


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Tue Oct 24

October 24 - Edgar

Edgar

Apparently if I don’t use enough light the scan doesn’t pick up the colour, but I promise it started out as purple!


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Mon Oct 23
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Thu Oct 19

October 19 - Cat

Cat

I lost track of time today so here is a poorly drawn cat. 🙂


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Wed Oct 18

October 18 - Yellow

Yellow

This entire doodle was created because I felt bad that I don’t use my yellow Frixion marker enough and wanted to give my black marker a rest. Of course then I realised that I didn’t know what is a good yellow thing to draw, so I panicked because I ran out of time.


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Tue Oct 17

October 17 - Swim

Swim

I don’t know why I think these types of pictures are so interesting, they are the ones just before or after the “posed shot”. I just don’t know.


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Mon Oct 16

October 16 - Bird

Bird

This was just a bird, my family may say that it looks mildly like a peacock, however, it’s not that brilliant blue. But the bird can be whatever you want it to be.


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