Bring Out Your Beasts – MONSTER DRAW...

Bring Out Your Beasts – MONSTER DRAWINGS

Felt compelled to draw some vile things and a little less of the London Underground (although I will be coming back to this very soon) I have been getting my brain monsters and design down on paper. Most of these sketches, doodle's, drawing have been captured on a traditional cartridge paper using both my mechanical pencil and graphite.

I think it has to be said that I get a level of satisfaction from drawing the grisly details of creatures, be it afflictions, boils, wounds, teeth and any other visceral part of the anatomy. Drawing this gives me sense inner rhythm , a hum or chord in which my body and mind tunes into. It's gives me sense of focus and relaxation which I can only graze upon with these few words.

Take your time to have a browse, I have been feeling quite inspired to do some more creature design and studies since going to the zoological museum at UCL. Elephant skulls are quite fascinating to draw and also strange without flesh. That's for another day.

It's Blurred?

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BUTTROCK! - (Bumrock) photo from Talland Bay near Polperro in Cornwall

ButtRock

Bottoms Up

Well this a blast from the past. I figured that this bit of fun should grace the internet! lets call it a 10 year anniversary for good measure. 

This photo was taken around the time of the carefree days prior to uni and PCAD - simple times as you can tell. This piece of photography came about by chance, I remember looking at the rounded stones and thinking... (not a lot) well probably went something like this.

"Mate, go between those rocks stick your arses in the air!... left a bit, right! Good!' Click!

And now you have it a, a sea of apparent arses carved from natural landscape in one monochrome photo. I was most likely hoping for reactions such as:

'Oh my word!' China sets flung everywhere
'Oh my days! Doily all askew and monocles popping out left right and centre! 

Well it was fun. Photo taken near Polperro at Talland Bay. - Models Ritchie Crane and Darrell Butler. - Prints were available.

JD - Jolly Hockey Sticks!

copy right JD ODELL

Character faces and sketches from my A4 Sketch Pad

Sketch book - Character Faces

I felt my blog lacked this kind of thing, sketches, work in progress WIP's etc. So I wanted to start adding this kind of thing. People, faces, expressions and characters are just some of my areas of obsession, I get my kicks and from drawing gravely faces, ladies, scars and anything that comes to mind.

Back tracking slightly... somebody asked what was my favorite thing to draw - a tough question with more than one answer. I would say story telling, characters, hero's, villains, thieves, rogues, monsters, beasts, ladies, history, a scene the list goes on and on. I like to draw detail!!!

I'm quite liking the mean old man character and the lady eyes.

HB mechanical pencil

And yes... I do, do a spot of people watching... I get a lot of inspiration from crowded places.

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