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Sketches and Sales and Sherlocks, Oh My!
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Sale done, thank you to all who participated!
I’m doing a sale! Until the end of May, if you’d like to get just a wee little sketch from me in the mail, you can.
This is the sort of thing you can get for $5:
One figure, sketchy style!
Fluffed-Up Wren sketch by Amy Crook
John Watson sketch by Amy Crook
This is the sort of thing you can get for $10:
One figure, with more detail & shading:
Snape sketch by Amy Crook (sold)
Or two figures, sketchy style. No, they don’t have to be cutesy. What?
John and Sherlock sketch by Amy Crook (sold)
This is the sort of thing you can get for $20:
Two figures, with more detail & shading:
Aziraphale and Crowley sketch by Amy Crook (sold)
Thanks!
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Sale Post, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: good omens, pen and ink, sherlock, sketch sale, snape, watson, wings, wren
Son of Weeble
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Son of Weeble by Amy Crook
I admit it, I ran out of finished weeble cartoons for my Wednesdays and had to just doodle something up. I started out just drawing up a “blank” weeble – shape of the head and body, arms and hands and feet. The idea of doing a blank-faced one then made me think of Magritte’s Son of Man, and thus I give you Son of Weeble to weird up your Wednesday.
I gave myself the rule of only using pens within reach to shade him, which is why his clothes are a light grey and his skin left paper white. Maybe next time I’ll bring out the Really Useful Box o’ Sharpies before I get started, I’m pretty sure I have a better range of pinks and browns there.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: doodle, magritte, nfs, weeble
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Lovecrafty
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Lovecrafty by Amy Crook
While some pieces come together with effortless synchronicity, others are a struggle from start to finish. This piece was definitely one of the latter, but I’m finally happy with the end result. There’s just something that really amuses me in the way it seems like a cross between Lovecraftian horror and a 12-year-old girl’s diary.
The grey writing is done with a brush pen usually used for shading, the barely-legible words are a couple of especially creepy quotes from HP Lovecraft’s fiction. Blank spaces on the left were filled in with single words or shorter phrases, giving the whole thing a sense of mad, frantic writing, the deranged mind getting out what it’s seen. Or, possibly more insanity-inducing, the inner feelings of a pre-teen.
The images themselves are layered, everything from printer ink to sharpie marker, watercolor to pen and ink. I used water to blur things left and right and there’s even a tiny bit of salt texture, though it doesn’t take very well on this type of paper. I considered adding some tentacle monster green into the mix to dull down the overall cheeriness of the palette, but in the end I couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of color and intent.
Lovecrafty, 5″x7″ pen & ink, watercolor, Sharpie marker and salt on paper.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: for sale, lovecraft, pen and ink, quote, salt, sharpie, watercolor
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The 11th Doctor
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
The 11th Doctor by Amy Crook
After all the time I’ve spent drawing cartoon Sherlock and Watson, I decided to go ahead and do Moffat’s other cheekbone-powered character, Doctor Who. The 11th Doctor was similar enough to Sherlock in features to give me a good starting point, but different enough to make it fun.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: doctor who, nfs, pencil, sketch
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Zen Comma
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Zen Comma by Amy Crook
I painted the central “zen circle” swish of this piece and then let it sit for a while. It looked so much like a comma, and the blue-black watercolor was so stark against the white, it really needed some words to go with it. I debated on a quote, on writing something myself, on printing or handwriting, and eventually came up with this. It’s one of my favourite quotes from a book, the end of a longer piece about the way we integrate pain into our views of the world.
Zen Comma, 6″x4″ watercolor, brush pen and ink on watercolor postcard, $99 with free shipping.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: brush pen, don h debrandt, for sale, pen and ink, watercolor, zen circle
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Weeble Wednesday: Bride of Frankenstein
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Bride of Frankenstein by Amy Crook
I’ve finally colored the very last bonus bride from my Monster Heart Coloring Book. She was so simple to do, I’m not sure why I put her off — just some very subtle light shading and her red-black lipstick and pale skin, really. She makes a lovely companion to Frankenstein’s Monster, and I’m sure he’s eager to give her his heart. Her eyes are even the same green that tinges most of his patchwork skin.
Bride of Frankenstein, 5″x7″ pen and ink and Copic Markers on watercolor paper, $69 with free shipping.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: coloring book, copic marker, for sale, monster, pen and ink, weeble
Sherlock & John
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Sherlock & John by Amy Crook
Just a cheery little cartoon for your Monday – John with his tea and Sherlock in his thinking pose, the two of them content with their lot. I’m thinking of doing a b&w version of this one on a little Moleskine, but for now, you can enjoy an iPhone wallpaper of them, if you like. I am!
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, john watson, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, tea, watson
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