For Husband’s choice this week, a revisit to the Slug King.

Since my last post I received a very honest critique. Thank you. Upon the review I have been playing with my drawing pushing my comfort zone. Two days are all that has passed, but I have been spending time experimenting. I know the only way to make my work better is to draw. Draw. Draw.

My recent explorations aren’t fully illustrated in this post. The lighting on the King is the only element outside my comfort zone here. In my drawing I tend to shy away from shadow leaving all tones about the same. This piece is trying to get there.

Now back to drawing! Can’t spend too much time on the computer, there are precious few hours left after watching a toddler all day.

Since the start of the So You Think You Can Dance season I have been asking my husband for an idea to draw every Thursday to be posted to my blog on Friday. He has taken this much more seriously than I imagined and given me some really creative thoughts! Each concept has also taken me more time than I had expected, either because it was a complex idea or I have had numerous images come to mind and I wanted to draw each out before picking the best.

All day I have been frantically trying to get the Husband’s Choice together feeling bad for my lateness, which is why I am changing the post day. Don’t give unrealistic deadline goals, be honest about how long a project will take. Now that I know, we have a winner! As posting on Friday isn’t working my new goal shall be to make a post of Husband’s Choice on Monday night or Tuesday morning.

This weeks theme, Microscopic Zoo! I am posting all three rough sketches in order of their creation. Can you tell that by the third sketch I was hanging out with Biologists? My initial thought was a tiny zoo of what we expect to see in a zoo. Then I got more literal and thought of the microscopic creatures that cover our world and set them up in a petri dish zoo-with sidewalks for the tiny people visiting! Although, this still exists in our world because there is a microscope hovering above. I’m sure they have just been shrunk down Fantastic Voyage style to allow for their meandering through microscopic zoo.

Is the drawing detailed enough for any of you to name some of these popularly known single celled organisms? Think back to high school biology!

I am going to do this week’s husband’s choice in two parts or three or four. The title is so complex I needed time to decide what the story would be. Yes the character has a full name, initials J.S., but we are terrible and didn’t write them down at the beginning. So, we are trying to remember.

Here is my rough sketch, the next stage of drawing to come.

Sorry for it going up late on a Sunday rather than Friday before 4.

This is a pretty rough sketch, but the concept is there. Had fun with this. Spent some time thinking of numerous ways there could be sunshine at midnight.

Given that it got my creative juices going, I have been warned this challenge will get mixed in another time.I also may take the sketch to a more final stage too.

Here is last weeks choice that came in at the last minute.

I have always adored creepy houses. Not fairy tale houses with frilly pinks and shiny windows. The dark, tall, daunting kingdoms of doom where the bad guys live. I realize that no matter how much I like that, when I draw them, it is still with a smile. It isn’t really creepy. But, I had a lot of fun making this piece. I guess my bad guys will always be like Duke Igthorn.