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To be perfectly honest, the latest lockdown announcement here in Scotland was bound to influence my art in some form or another... Needless to say this is going to be one looooong winter, one that’ll have me blasting “Here Comes The Sun” by The Beatles once it ends, or at the very least stabilises.

I think I've used this festive hangover as an excuse for (what seems) a little too long now, hahahaha! Back to business...

A couple of beers, thoughts in my head about lockdown easing and Radiohead lingering in the background while I work = stuff like this.

An ode to the seas, sailing and other malarkey relating to that theme.

A narwhal! Because, why not?

A line in 'Renegade: The Lives And Tales Of Mark E. Smith', which I'm currently reading, got my creative juices flowing this time around!

Not as apocalyptic as it looks or sounds! Inspired by a dream I had about committing a social faux-pas of the worst kind you could imagine.

The end of one sketchbook, with the beginning of another to arrive shortly!

Art therapy is good therapy.

Various life drawings from 2019

Let’s get this week started, shall we?

For no. 3 I’m making use of today’s Samhuinn open meeting freebies! Plus an anagram for the title… ;-) If you know, you know!

Initially aimed for Ms. Marvel / Kamala Khan but somehow ended up with a Daria lookalike… happy with how things turned out though!

Recently acquired a Marill!

Catch-up time again?

When you’re out doing your weekly shop and find not lucky pennies, but lucky stickers! As a friend of mine’s said just recently, the universe thinks I deserve some :-)

Muppet fan art no. 2 today! I adored the Muppet Babies growing up and this video tape, well, how the hell it never wore out is beyond me. If only the rest of the tv series was an easy find…

Weekend works, no. 2!

Just finished watching The Legend Of The Three Caballeros over on Disney+, excellent stuff! Time for yet more fan art… hello Donald!

Today I’m tackling the elusive Tully Monster as a drawing subject! “It might be either a wormy type thing or a molluscy-like thing but for the most part, comprehensive taxonomies placed the monster in the animal kingdom untethered to any particular phylum, making it essentially unclassifiable. The perplexing nature of these fossils earned them the parochial nickname ‘Tully Monster’.”

Return of the seahorse and friends!

Continuing this journey of trying new things to draw, so here’s something resembling an OG Game Boy for you all!

For an Instagram art challenge, we had to draw a beat ‘em up character in the style of a robot. Here’s my contribution! I could’ve gone with some fairly obvious choices, but to challenge myself and try something new, I opted for Gon from Tekken 3. Turning this dino into a robot, now that’s where it got interesting!

Oddish fan art time again!

Hadn’t drawn Dragonite in a while… figured I’d do something about that!

Seahorse time :-)

Something of a mock paella going on here, I’d say!

Something very different(ish) for me… a touch of life drawing! It’s been near enough eight years since I last had a go at this sort of thing. Pleased to see I’m not too bad at it… definitely giving it another go when I can :-)

Whale sharks and whale unicorns!

Under the sea we go…