How does one find followers for their blog. I need comments and constructive criticism!

Also, I've realized that returning to my education has sapped me of all creative energy. It's bizarre that I filled a sketchbook's worth of cartoons in two weeks over Christmas, but now I can't even draw a face without getting frustrated.

Hmph.

I spent the evening watching comedic videos instead (Bill Bailey and Ross Noble. May I be cliche and put ♥).

Blah, A-levels. I don't even need all of them!

Poe & digital work

I dug out my copy of Edgar Allen Poe's The House of Usher and Other Stories which I bought back in the day of my typical Gothic-intellect-wannabeism, but never read.

I'm surprised I found The Man That Was Used Up laugh-out-loud funny!

I'll attempt to draw some illustrations for them when I have time.

In the meantime I'm currently working on this weird digital drawing and painting style, so I can perhaps eventually get to work on my own short graphic novel. (Oh my, such over-ambition!).

Misc.

(what's this? WoW? Nooo. I'm not that lame.)

Character ideas

A princess who wreaks havoc in her home and runs away to become a rogue.

-bit too anime-ish


- some creepy wraith/cloak thing

Misc-
(I was basically trying to think of characters for this gothy/surreal Burton-esque style, with a hint of pirate. Does something like that exist?!)

A 'metal' cartoon.

I watched some more Metalocalypse whilst I was away, and as a result started thinking up a cartoon in my head.

This idea, basically it follows a group of metalhead/goth friends around their school lives. Typical!

The main characters are this Gothy girl named Victoria. She's very skinny. And her friend Ciaran, who fancies himself a dark, grim type, but he's a bit of a wuss really.


Other characters include the local band, who are a bunch of nutters and think they're Norse gods in human flesh. Here they are:

(the singer started out skinny but he just looked like a biblical character, so I made him chubby in the end. He kinda has that silly Jack-Black appeal?)

I spent a lot of time developing my two characters, Eino and Lucy. I think I've already mentioned them here?


- an attempt at a sequence of faces, to practice consistency. It was difficult! And this face is very simple! Oh dear.

outfit ideas and stuff

Twilight characters :'D

I finished reading the series whilst in Ireland, I was that desperate to know what happened. What an anti-climatic ending!

Some sketches of the characters:

Bella:

Edward (or as my Aunt called him, 'Mr. Angular Face')


The bit where Bella imagines Jacob stressing out as he writes the letter / Jacob:


I'm sure there was more, but I don't want to seem the Twilight fantard, so I'll stop now.