These pastel pencils work for me some days and other days don’t. I think it’s the paper. I need to get pastel mat.

A pastel drawing of Tim Curry as Frank’N’Furter.

Happy birthday, Tim Curry.
I tried, but it’s late in the day and I could spend another hour on this and not make much difference.

A charcoal sketch of Douglas Adams on a black background. His hand looks less like a foot.

I rejigged it last night because I thought his hand looked too much like a foot, plus some other tweaks.
I really should wait before posting because this always happens.

A coloured charcoal sketch of Douglas Adams.

It’s the birthday of Douglas Adams, so I thought I’d give him a go.

Nobody pay attention.

Bob Holness with a post box on his head.

FAO @oddthisday.bsky.social
Looking for something to draw, I remembered your post the other day.

Cheers

A colour charcoal drawing of David Lynch.

Since it’s his birthday today, I thought I’d have a go at David Lynch.

A charcoal drawing of a girl’s smiling face.

I did some touchups and finally got round to fixing it and the spray has really dulled it down. I’m a bit annoyed about that.

Thanks. It means a lot coming from another artist.

A coloured charcoal drawing of my daughter on hot pink paper.

I got a larger pack of charcoals, with more colours, and wanted to try using a bright colour paper. I think it’s worked out nicely.

The corners of five drawings only showing signatures and dates, ranging from January 2024 and January 2026.

Two in a week! Five down, three to go. It’s only taken me two years. I’m on a roll.

My signature with the date of 10/25.

I’m speeding up, knocked this one out in about two and a half hours. Three down, five to go.

A drawing of three inflatable frogs, holding a sign saying ‘frogs together strong’.

Frogs together strong.
Inspired by events in Portland.

A drawing of the monkey with some pencils positioned alongside.

A close up of the drawing of the monkey with some pencils positioned alongside, because why not.

I used some new coloured charcoal pencils I bought a while back that I hadn’t got round to trying out yet.

A charcoal drawing on black paper of the money from The Monkey.

Watched The Monkey the other day, a dark comedy horror about an evil mechanical monkey. Very good of you like Final Destination style stuff. 🐵 🥁

My signature with the date 01/24

My signature with the date 01/24

A while back, I came up with the idea for a series of 8 drawings I wanted to do and excitedly went straight into the first one… then stopped.
Tonight, I thought I’d continue, and bashed out the second. I just finished, and noticed the dates.
Two down, six to go, expect the complete set by 2037.

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
#artshare

A caricature of my dad’s wife as a gnome.

A caricature of my dad as a gnome.

This was meant to be a Christmas present, but I was ill and only got round to doing it last week. As they’ve now got it in the mail, I can post it here - My dad and his wife as gnomes (which she loves).

A pencil drawing of a water sprite from Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 1.

Right, let’s bring everything up to date. A couple of weeks ago, I drew this thing for my daughter. If you play Fortnite, you know what this little guy is.

A pencil drawing of a vault dweller from Fallout 4, with the face of my nephew.

Forgot to post this a while back. It was my nephew’s birthday and he’s a big fan of Fallout, so I turned him into the Sole Survivor. I knocked it out in an evening, but wish I’d had more time, it doesn’t feel right and I don’t quite know why. - 100724

A loose pen sketch of a town pub.

Tested out my new fountain pen, but still not brave enough to commit to using watercolours, it seems a lot of faff, so coloured this with markers. - 100524

A Platinum Carbon Desk Pen and carbon ink.

In my ever widening search to explore different styles, I’ve bought a fancy fountain pen, a Platinum Carbon Desk Pen, along with some supposedly waterproof Carbon Ink. The plan is to outline and then watercolour, we’ll see how that goes. - 230424

I’m not convinced by the acrylics, I think I’d get more detail with pencils. I’ll give it another go at some point. - 110424

The reversed images of The Beatles, painted onto a styrene sheet.

Shrinking Ringo with a heat gun.

Curing the resin coating under a UV lamp.

The finished pin badges.

Acrylics onto styrene sheets, shrink ‘em down, resin front and back - with a pin, and Bob’s your uncle. - 110424

Four home made acrylic badges of the Beatles walking across the zebra crossing on Abbey Road.

I’ve had an idea bouncing around for a while and finally decided to quickly try it out - Beatles badges. - 110424

A pencil portrait of an old man in a hat with white beard.

I’ve quickly realised that people are more than happy to receive art as gifts. Here’s a portrait of my Dad that I did for his birthday. - 130324

A small sketch of an eye, with "Beans, Potato" and something else listed underneath.

A little eye doodle on my shopping list. - 280224

A pencil and marker drawing of baked beans on toast.

I had beans on toast for lunch yesterday, so I drew some. - 210224