New Drawings

[Wolf Larsen]

Originally Posted by Dragonlady

But why would those lovely ladies be drinking in a dive bar?

Looking for strange in a place where nobody knows your name.

[eleanorigby]

Very nice drawings, Harry! (as always). I really like what I call the Paper Clip one (the several pencils and hands etc), and I like the doors, and the reflection ones as well--but I would have put the leaves on the tree "underwater".

Love the mermaid one--so witty, but not precious.

[Harry]

Thank you, all. I was thinking about drawing a small mermaid in an aquarium with a cat peering over the top, but I may wait awhile for that one.

[Harry]

For Dragonlady's birthday, I stole borrowed Smart Aleq's favorite birthday greeting. With an actual card, the verse inside says "Teddy Bears mean well, but they can't spell very good..."

[dogbutler]

Originally Posted by Harry

For Dragonlady's birthday, I stole borrowed Smart Aleq's favorite birthday greeting. With an actual card, the verse inside says "Teddy Bears mean well, but they can't spell very good..."

I like it.

[Rebo]

@Harry -

Check out the works of this artist! I thought you might get some inspiration from him.

[Harry]

I like the carvings...I've always wanted to learn, but never had the patience.

[Chacoguy]

Your pens kick ass, Harry.

[missred]

Originally Posted by Harry

I like the carvings...I've always wanted to learn, but never had the patience.

Going from 2D to 3D is a transition that is difficult to nearly impossible for a lot of us.

Fortunately (at least for us ), your warped perspective is well done in 2D.

MOAR DRAWINGS!!!

[Harry]

Hadn't realized I had neglected this thread for over a year. I've been sick, you know...I'll add some more in the next couple of days.

[Khampelf]

Is that a place you've seen in real life?

[dogbutler]

Originally Posted by Harry

Hadn't realized I had neglected this thread for over a year. I've been sick, you know...I'll add some more in the next couple of days.

No worries. and welcome back.

[missred]

W00t!

Harry's back in the artroom.

[JackieLikesVariety]

[Harry]

Is that a place you've seen in real life?

No, most of the places and things I draw exist only in my head, although some of them are inspired by pictures I see on sites like The Chive. I try to individualize them a bit, but right now my drawings are tending toward realism, and that kind of limits the liberties I can take and what I can attempt within the drawing. Eventually, I'll get back to the more eccentric, but I'm enjoying real life at the moment.

[loshan]

I like both but love the lighthouse. Glad you are drawing again Harry.

[Harry]

Thank you, everyone. It's good to be back.

[Harry]

Why look...it's another sailboat!

[BJMoose]

That boat isn't named Icarus, is it? . . .

[Wolf Larsen]

Harry, have you ever drawn a space ship?

[Harry]

No, I haven't. I'm in between drawings at the moment so I'll do a little research and give it a try, if you like. I presume you'd want something with interstellar capabilities, 'cause otherwise, what's the point? Any other design parameters?

[Harry]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

That boat isn't named Icarus, is it? . . .

It didn't have a name, but now that you mentioned it, that would be a good one.

[Wolf Larsen]

Originally Posted by Harry

No, I haven't. I'm in between drawings at the moment so I'll do a little research and give it a try, if you like. I presume you'd want something with interstellar capabilities, 'cause otherwise, what's the point? Any other design parameters?

Something alien in deep space would be really cool.

[JackieLikesVariety]

in space, no one can hear you scream....

[Harry]

Originally Posted by Wolf Larsen

Something alien in deep space would be really cool.

Got it...the Flying Spaghetti Monster's home platter world complete with marinara oceans and warp-drive meatballs. I'll get right on that

[Harry]

The watchtower

[Wolf Larsen]

Very evocative.

[Harry]

Sort of inspired by Random Precision's rocking horse thread, but I'm certainly not going to blame him for the colors...



I have no idea why I thought the mane and tail needed to be dark blue. Perhaps I'm starting to get a little weird, as I grow older...

[missred]

Originally Posted by Harry

Sort of inspired by Random Precision's rocking horse thread, but I'm certainly not going to blame him for the colors...



I have no idea why I thought the mane and tail needed to be dark blue. Perhaps I'm starting to get a little weird, as I grow older...

Weird is good!

[Harry]

So when I responded to an ad from a Tree Decorating Service, this is what I got...



He (she?) was pretty good, but kinda slow, and of course I had to cover the carpet in case anything got dropped...

[missred]

Did the birdie have opposable thumbs on her (his?) hands?

:d&r:

[JackieLikesVariety]

I like that one, Harry

[Harry]

Originally Posted by missred

Did the birdie have opposable thumbs on her (his?) hands?

:d&r:

Now you're just being silly

[dogbutler]

I like 'em. Especially the sailboat. Makes me think of Key West.

[Harry]

Just a landscape...



I seem to be having trouble with background contrasts again. In the original drawing, the hills are still hazy, but they're more defined. I'll have to work on that.

[Harry]

'nother landscape. In the winter my thoughts turn to warm things...some of which I can share. It's supposed to be Spring In The Desert. Never been there then, but I suspect there's too much green, and some of it is in the wrong places. Chaco can comment on that, if he chooses to. There also seems to be a giant owl at the bottom of the drawing, but there wasn't supposed to be, so it's just a happy accident. (Or maybe not, if you're terrified of Giant Owls.)

[eleanorigby]

It could be the West just after a rare spring shower, so the green's ok. I like the owl. I also like the nebulous implication that some of the rock formation might also be a large human hand, palm upward, and/or the small brown rocks in the lower right side could be a village under a dome.

I like to look at your drawings and see what else I can find.

Re the blue tail and mane on the rocking horse: black often looks blue black, so I think your rendition of them is spot on. The blue gives depth to both.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

It could be the West just after a rare spring shower, so the green's ok. I like the owl. I also like the nebulous implication that some of the rock formation might also be a large human hand, palm upward, and/or the small brown rocks in the lower right side could be a village under a dome.

I like to look at your drawings and see what else I can find.

Re the blue tail and mane on the rocking horse: black often looks blue black, so I think your rendition of them is spot on. The blue gives depth to both.

Kind words...thank you. Over the years, there have been many things "discovered" in my drawings. In this one, the "small brown rocks" were supposed to be cliff dwellings, but the owl and hand really were accidental, for the most part. Sometimes you get to a point in a drawing where you realize something might be there, and you either develop it or erase it. Sometimes I don't see the objects until someone else points them out, but the way my mind works, I don't think I could draw in any other medium. (This morning at breakfast my brother in law said he thought it was a drawing of two tree stumps, and my sister thought the owl was a poodle. So there ya go.)

[Wolf Larsen]

The Giant Owl looks grumpy.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by Wolf Larsen

The Giant Owl looks grumpy.

Wouldn't you be, if you found out someone mistook you for Poodle Larson?

[Harry]

Something outside my normal drawing parameters...can't say I enjoyed drawing it, but I'm pleased with the results. As far as I know, there are no unintended objects in the drawing...

[missred]

I like the gargoyle.

[Wolf Larsen]

I think that's the family pet.

[missred]

Originally Posted by Wolf Larsen

I think that's the family pet.

Spot!

[Harry]

A friend of mine saw the card-size version of my avatar and suggested this slight modification...



I like it...I think I'll give her the original.

[Chacoguy]

Originally Posted by Harry

'nother landscape. In the winter my thoughts turn to warm things...some of which I can share. It's supposed to be Spring In The Desert. Never been there then, but I suspect there's too much green, and some of it is in the wrong places. Chaco can comment on that, if he chooses to. There also seems to be a giant owl at the bottom of the drawing, but there wasn't supposed to be, so it's just a happy accident. (Or maybe not, if you're terrified of Giant Owls.)

I hope this doesn't come off as lecturing. So, is a quick geology lesson.

You've got layers that erode a different rates and ways. (Vertical cracks vs. Horizontal ones).

The areas that you have shaded in green won't have nearly enough water for anything to grow there. The only places that might harbor any life, that you could ,say, eat; would be down between those vertical fins down and to the right. Perpetual shade is where the life is.

That said, the green shaded areas would not be eroded by water flow, but by freeze and thaw. You go from one hard layer to a softer vertical cracking layer and you get Monument Vally. Picture a cap over uncooked spaghetti, or asperigas or what have you. Once it's breached, it just falls straight down to add to the Talus. The Talus is that big rubble pile at the base of the cliff.

The weird thing is that the South facing sides (On the North side of the river) have a way larger temperature difference than the North facing ones. The Talus is visibly different In the shaded, North facing ones, the boulders are bigger. On the warmer, South facing ones, the boulders are smaller, presumably from being crushed by their falling brethren from above.

Finally, those fins would be a couple layers above the mesa, not next to it.


[Jr. Ranger Hat Off]

[Harry]

You can lecture me on Geology anytime you like. I've spent a lot of time in the scab lands and I still find the region fascinating. Thanks for telling me what I've done wrong...realism is important to me, even though it may not always seem like it.

[Harry]

Lot of detail in this one. It's very loosely based on a Hotel overlooking a much larger waterfall, which may or may not be in Italy...I dis-remember, exactly. I f I hadn't taken liberties with the size of the waterfall, about half the drawing would have been white. That's how big the falls and spray/mist cloud was.

[Harry]

This was in response to an assignment for an art class I'm taking...

[Wolf Larsen]

I like lighthouses a lot.