Sketchy Sunday 3

I am SO. PLEASED. with the way everything turned out this week :D Even if I did completely forget what the proper markings are on a house sparrow for Monday's sketch >.< But, you know what, it still works ok!

I've taken some close-ups of the bits I'm most proud of this week:




Roses from Tuesday - so tickled with all the little folded over petals and the flower-bud and the one that's wilting.




Coloured sketches of Lottie, our wire-haired fox terrier, from Wednesday. The head-on face is weird, but the rest are fine.




In this one, I wanted the thumbs-up to be realistic but make everything else as creepy-cartoony as possible. The Smiling Man himself is a sort of cross between the Mask and the Joker.




I am so damn proud of that reflection :D The title is a lyric from Counting Crows' "St Robinson in his Cadillac Dream".




And another creepy one - in my head I call this one "Midnight Circus". The little featureless people in the bottom left are supposed to be figurines or miniature automatons which are actually enchanted people, but you could see them as ghosts or sprites or just personifications of atmosphere.

Miscellaneous

These picture books, written by Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulous, sound adorable - look at Lincoln and his ickle beard!! Images are taken from this entry in Neil Gaiman's blog where you can also find out some more about the books themselves.

On a slightly different note, learn some of the traditional names for each month's full moon as given by the Algonquin tribes of the northern and eastern US. So evocative; I particularly love the Strawberry Moon :D

(Please note the article was published in 2012 and all dates and times for full moons are in reference to that year. I came across this info via the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.)