It's March. We're on. Welcome to APM.
Lupie wrote to me before we started, asking me to draw some progesterone - which I have learnt is a hormone that supports gestation.
Jacob Steel asked me to draw many things, but my favourite from the list was A surface-to-air walrus.
This was pretty easy to draw actually, a walrus is a walrus, and that means it's largely a blob with giant teeth. Interestingly, the skin on the picture I was copying from was really erally wrinkly, and reproducing that kind of texture was kind of a challenge. I drew a few lines in key places (like the "knee") - but most of them were fairly randomly scribbled on, then I shaded from the line from dark to light upwards to make a texture.
I was actually quite tired drawing this today, so I only spent about 20 minutes on it in total, but when I got to this stage I didn't think it could really be improved, so I stopped.
Luke Corteen emailed me to ask for Chibi Aliens.
I don't have a lot to say here, these were the first four designs that popped into my head. It's kind of impossible to draw an alien "wrong" - because they don't have any defined anatomy to speak of - so the challenge of drawing chibi aliens is rather easy.
Mr. Chris Coward told me that he would love a picture of a full suit of traditional samurai armour, in as much detail possible.
Okay, so a couple of admissions. I have no idea if the names of any of these parts are correct, I just pulled them off the web, so I don't claim accuracy here. There's a pair of leg greaves that are often worn, with this kind of armour as well, but they just look like cricket pads to me.
The design of this kind of armour is kind of nice, basically you have two straps that sit on your shoulders, and everything else just hangs down from them attached by loops. I suppose if you could aim two well placed strikes at the tops of the shoulders, the entire suit of armour would fall off, but that's not especially likely to actually be something you can do.
"I was not in a bad mood when I requested this picture, I just have an unhealthy fascination with hellscapes." With this, Chess asks us to draw the following:
"A Landscape From Hell (if you want bonus clarifications, the traditional kind with red stalagmites and tormented souls dotted around the place...)"
Today, Edith writes to us as follows:
"Please could you make it possible for me to see a drawing of this photo in as much detail as you see fit."
...So I did. The background didn't interest me too much from a sketching perspective here. I could have replicated the texture of the surface there, but doing so would have taken me quite a lot of time, and once again, I whipped up the sketch in only 30 minutes. I didn't see that there's be a lot of value in drawing a bumpy ground, so I focussed on the shell.
And spirals go on the list of things that are hard to draw nicely.
Day three, and the inspiration for today's picture must come from a single word. "Nominative". Thanks... I guess... go to Ellie.
A lot of people say they have difficulty drawing hands and feet. I don't have difficulty, I just can't do it. :)
Happy Tuesday! Today, Chevron has asked us to draw "Where The Numbers Come From".
I spent most of the day musing over this. There were so many things I could have drawn today, that I felt spoilt for choice, but, whenever I came up with an idea - a stupid image popped into my head.
The numbers come from Orville. The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't think of anything else. It was one of those days where I couldn't shake off the ridiculous mood I found myself in. I did some research on it. I asked google "Do the numbers come from Orville?" Google tells me that no, the numbers do not come from Orville. In fact, Orville has very little to do with the production of numbers, being as all the puppets who do formed a union on Sesame Street.
So I got to thinking again, numbers have to come from somewhere, and there's an awful lot of them. You'd need a huge operation to make all the numbers we use on a daily basis. Of course, numbers are kind of small, so perhaps they're manufactured in tiny factories and transported around the world in little trucks by tiny people. I imagine such a factory would look a little like this:
I'd have done more, but I ran out of time.
Today we drew a sketch of "When the wallaby met the Queen" - Thanks to Megan for this suggestion.
I didn't have a lot of free time today, and I drew this picture during a roleplaying session, between throwing dice around. I learned a few things from drawing this picture though. Firstly I learned that the queen faces to the right on coins, at least the ones that were in my wallet today. I'm pretty sure that she faces to the left on stamps. I'm informed by Rosie that in fact there is a tradition with coins that the monarch faces in the opposite direction to the last one - something I never knew before.
The second thing I learned was that I have no idea what a wallaby looks like, especially in the lower half, so I just drew the heads of the characters in the sketch, and then stylised the rest of them.
The third thing I learned is that the union jack is a complete pain to draw. This was quickly followed by realising that the stars on the Australian flag have seven points... and that they're not regular stars, they're a really weird shape - I utterly failed to draw the Australian flag.
I'm no good at drawing people so they look like they're supposed to. My queen came out as being rather older and gaunter than the real queen - but I think you can tell it's her. The queen's hair is quite distinctive at least. Also, because there's a star behind the wallaby, it looks like he's got a dinosaur horn. This makes me happy :)
White rabbits!
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We still need more suggestions for what to draw, so if you have an idea, contact me at dtb26@cantab.net
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