Just watched Point Blank starring Lee Marvin and directed by John Boorman. A not-quite adaptation of The Hunter by Donald Westlake.
Not quite my style despite loving the book and the film is quite restrained for Boorman. Undeniably beautiful and well made though. Is good.

Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you!

Also caught up on movies. Loved Wicked, enjoyed Singin' In The Rain. Very different approaches to musicals. Singing In The Rain often stops for a completely unrelated and disposable musical number. At one point to showcase an entirely different story from start to finish. #singinInTheRain #Wicked

Went home for the holidays. Experimented with drawing a place that meant something to me.

pff, yeah dude. Sure.

More doodles. If you've ever even seen How To Draw Noir Comics by Shawn Martinbrough, you'll recognise exactly one of these doodles, because I did a quick copy of the cover (hint: it's the one with the actual good composition).

Working on an over ambitious piece has been killing my fingers. Kids, if you're gonna put in a tonne of detail with a fineliner, at least train yourself to use a comfortable grip.
Anyway, I've been taking a break. But turns out I couldn't stop myself from doodling with brush and fountain pen.

Bumped up the contrast in post a bit. A prelim for a piece I'm aiming to do. Watercolour, coloured pencils, ink. I need to sort out the colour vibrancy when I do it for real. First time painting in years. Time before that was so much longer even.

Bit of leg exercise, a lot of art exercise.

One copied panel from Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's Venus Wars manga. He uses a minimum amount of marks to maximum effect because he is a master.
I drew without an underdrawing (and messed up the visor). Also used an ink wash instead of screentones because I could not possibly replicate.

Copied panels from Mikes Barron and Mignola's adaptation of Corum. No underdrawing because I like to live life on the edge.

From October. Did #Pulptober put forth by artist Scott Chantler instead of Inktober. These are just some of them.

Created an account just to share this. Lord Zudrick of the Murder from @naddpod.bsky.social
He's a super serious character and I require the crew to take him so seriously.