Women

Well I started a post about drawing women this morning, but somehow it went haywire and took on a life of its own. Now, I start again.

I absolutely love drawing women, clothed, unclothed, it doesn't mater, I just like drawing them. I love taking a blank sheet of paper and giving it sex appeal.

Although there's things I don't like about this drawing, the way the lighting on the back came out saves this picture for me. I do little studies like this from time to time, I'll come across a photo that has good lighting or something and just decide, screw it, I'm drawing a naked chick.


I came across a photo of Sasha Gray a couple of years ago and had to draw it.

I had to draw that hair, that was the main thing for me in the photo and it was my reason for doing this drawing. I wish I had put more work into the rest of the drawing, mainly her face, it vaguely looks like Sasha Gray, but I could have done better.


Sometimes I like to combine my two favorite things to draw, monsters and women, but I always try to keep up the sex appeal.

If you stick around here long enough you will quickly find that I have issues with pretty much every drawing I turn out, so, just like most of them, I see some problems with this drawing. Thankfully, my wife has finally convinced me that most people can't see the defects that I see and to stop pointing them out, so I may say that I see issues with a pic but I'm not going to point them out.

I like this drawing, I had fun drawing it and I think it's cute.

My wife hates it, she thinks it's boring. It's simple, bit I like it.


Obviously I like coupling women with tentacles, eh, that's what you get from someone who reads too much Lovecraft.

This looks a lot better in its original size. Reducing the size really blurs out the details, especially on the tentacles, but that's the curse of the internet.


I think we'll wrap things up with a demon girl, or, as they've come to be called in my house, a naked demon chick.

This is my wife, well, I used a photo of my wife as the reference for this piece. My wife doesn't think it looks like her. I disagree, I think it's a very good likeness. I'll admit it's not perfect, admittedly the eyes are probably too large, but besides that, it looks just like her.

Some monstrous entities

There are two things that I love drawing, women and monsters. Of the two, women and monsters, I definitely draw more monsters, mostly small little sketches averaging around 6” square. Sometimes I get carried away and the little doodle turns into a full blown drawing but that is very rare, and I usually never quite finish the drawing when the happens.
A lot of the monsters that I draw have been heavily influenced by the original members of the Lovecraft circle, and other authors, such as Brian Lumley, who were either inspired by or attempted to emulate Lovecraft.


Of all the stories written by Lovecraft, there are two which I can read over and over again, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Lurking Fear, of those two, my favorite has to be The Lurking Fear. I know there are people out there who think I'm crazy for preferring any other Lovecraft story over The Shadow Over Innsmouth, but, in all honesty, even though I find gills creepy, I don't find fish all that scary. Human de-evolution and incest are far creepier to me. Yes I suppose that The Shadow Over Innsmouth is technically a story about de-evolution, but human de-evolution into a monkey like creature, such as takes place in The Lurking Fear is far more believable than a man turning into a fish.


Lovecraft was never very descriptive when attempting to describe one of his creatures, in The Lurking Fear however, he did a pretty good job. In essence the Martense family, due mainly to inbreeding, had de-evolved into small monkey like creatures with long claws designed for digging. On first reading Lovecraft's description of the Martense's I had to sketch out the creature that popped into my head.

This is an OLD drawing, it's from around 2001 I believe, it's also one of the few things from that time that I let anyone see. A lot of the art I did until around 2003 is frankly embarrassing, one of the best things I ever did was to marry a woman who was willing to point out the bad things and errors in my art that I couldn't see.


About four years ago I decided to re read Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories. I've never really enjoyed The Dream Cycle stories, they never quite hit my buttons the way Lovecraft's other stories did and I honestly found them to be a bit boring. There were a few scenes from them that stuck in my head, specifically the scene from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath where Randolph Carter stumbles across the ghoul, who if I remember right is Richard Pickman, setting on top of a grave stone. After re reading that passage I set the book down and sketched this little thing.

This is a very small sketch, less than 4” tall, and it was done on one of my guard sheets. Ah, the guard sheets, gatherers of doodles and refinement sketches. As any artist that works heavily in pencil will tell you, graphite loves sticking to the side of your hand and it smears. Most artists that work in pencil use something to rest their hand on while drawing so that they don't smear graphite all over the picture they're working on, I call this a guard sheet. In my case I use a sheet of paper, folded in half, from the pad that I'm using. If something isn't working out right in the piece I'm working on, I'll sketch out some alterations on the guard sheet to see if I can get whatever the problem is worked out. Also, if inspiration strikes while I'm working on something else, I can sketch it out on the guard sheet and get my mind back to what I was working on. So, my guard sheets tend to gather a lot of small sketches and doodles.


This is Robert Slight

Robert was originally some random thing that popped into my head and never got finished, he received his name after I decided to try and play him as a Freak Legion character in a mixed genera White Wolf game that we were playing. I have a picture of him clothed somewhere, but it seems that I never scanned it, so instead, you get him naked. I initially had fun playing this character, unfortunately, he was a hyperactive, paranoid character, whose high pitched, raspy voice and constant screeches of “MINION” were a bit to difficult to keep up and I had to drop him. I'll see if I can't find a picture of him clothed and get it scanned.

Well, there's three little monsters for you, tomorrow I might post some ladies.