Murky Spooks.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Still in this sketching hellhole. I think it’s been years since I actually focused on a single piece. It’s more convenient to do daily sketches, take a poor photo and post it somewhere. But man, years of that and I don’t have any big art things to be proud of. I just got sketchbooks people can look through. 

Here’s some people I’ve drawn. From existing properties, I’ve drawn Joylene Kujo from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and The Nameless One from Planescape: Torment. Also the girl resembles Megan Schroeder best known for her friendship with Chris-Chan. The rest aren’t from anything, but I may use them for my next space musical.

Anyway, I got the big paper out and started on a piece. I’m stripping myself away from this “oooh spoogy monster whatever” thing I’d always do and try to be more conceptual in a way. I had this previous thing I ditched that was kinda going okay, but got bored of because it was the millionth “spoogy doogy doo monster human gore EMOTIONAL”. My big twist on it was to put a girl with it, but the most fun part was the girl, and it was the only part of it that I actually finished. Before that was a failed attempt at doing an album art (mecha girl+extreme abstract gore) for Machine Girl and I’m sure the trend continues.

My next thing I’d like to actually finish is more down to earth/less abstract. Got good progress done and will hopefully get a good amount of lineart done to post it.

jolyne kujo JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken planescape art sketch sketchbook faces

Might as well start up again with uploading from my instagram. I won’t advertise it here since it’ll be easier to upload stuff from there here and pretend this is all new, but actually I will: devil_johnston.

Here you got spooky stuff, a Craig Gleason ghoul, an inaccurate Elliot Gould, and some Fallout.

EDIT: the drawing with the babby boy in the sailor hat was a good practice at digital shading, but then while working on it my laptop died and I’m pretty sure I forgot to save it with all the layers on it. I swear it was starting to look pretty phenominal but life goes on.

art sketch sketchbook halloween happyhalloween death fallout craig gleason spooks spooky drawing elliot gould posing

My dead page isn’t dead yet.

I walked across some bridges, skipped some rocks, walked across the beaches.

I’ve let my art stay in sketchbooks for a long time in some odd crusade to improve my skill so that one day I’d be a great artist. But it’s time for me to hit the grinding stone and start putting hard work into art for myself.

Either way, page isn’t dead, maybe my followers are. I’m back for the art to make me cool.

Art hey arnold cool snagglepuss
skynetisactive
skynetisactive:
“deviljohnston:
“ Daniel Johnston, Trouble over Yander.
Sketch, mechaical pencil. Messy Scratch.
“The artist walks alone
Someone says behind his back,
“He’s got his gall to call himself that!
He doesn’t even know where he’s at!”
The...
deviljohnston

Daniel Johnston, Trouble over Yander.

Sketch, mechaical pencil. Messy Scratch.

“The artist walks alone

Someone says behind his back,

"He’s got his gall to call himself that!

He doesn’t even know where he’s at!”

The artist walks among the flowers

Appreciating the sun

He does this all his waking hours

But is it really so wrong?”

-Story of an Artist

skynetisactive

I don’t agree with the premise of re-blogging but when it comes to your artwork Johnston, i have to make an exception you expression beautiful d/ic/k.

Keep up the terrific work.

deviljohnston

I had no idea how Tumblr worked at the time so I didn’t see this, and now I’m going over reblogs to see some cool tags people put on my art things. I hope you are this because I really appreciate this.