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Yesterday's topic on Sketch Dailies was Jafar, who happens to be one of my favorite villains. I decided to play along and do a drawing. In looking at his design, his clothing reminded me of Michael Jackson's famous jacket from the Thriller video. An idea was born. A drawing was done.
I posted it on Twitter with this caption:
Though you fight to stay alive, Sketch Dailies starts to shiver.
For no mere mortal can resist, the evil of #Jafar.
Here is my take on a modern version of the oh so cruel Cruella. I haven't participated in Sketch Dailies on Twitter in several months but I was seduced back by villain week. Evil is fun to draw.
Drawn on my iPad with the Procreate app and a Jot Touch stylus.
Once again, I'm using Sketch Dailies as a vehicle for experimenting with different styles of illustration. The topic: Dracula.
Illustrated on my iPad, I started with a rough sketch. Then I drew all the shapes in white over a black background. I finished it by applying color to only the white brushwork. The final result feels somewhat like scratchboard art.
This drawing of Tarzan is far more cartoony than my usual cartoon work. It's fun to push the limits of the art form. I enjoyed mixing the bulbous body with limbs that have resemblance to human structure. I used that odd cartooning cheat where the arm is not seen behind the open mouth, but the drawing works like that.
Can you spot the mistake? The answer is below.
The mistake:
Tarzan has two right feet. I originally drew the extended leg as his right leg. When I redrew the connection to his left hip, I forgot to go back and fix the foot. Because this is just a drawing for fun, not publication, I'll leave it as is. Do you think he'll stumble upon landing?
Yesterday's daily topic on @Sketch_Dailies was "Monkey King", a warrior monkey from Chinese folklore. Warriors aren't my thing so I thought of another monkey king that I do like: King Louie from the Jungle Book. I sketched this based on two different original animation drawings by Frank Thomas, therefore it's not a pose directly out of the film.
