As the title states, it’s kraken week here at Nathan’s Blog (soon to be given a new, more interesting title, but that’s another story and shall be told another time). And okay, it’s probably something more like kraken time-period, but kraken week just flows better.
In any case, you can probably expect a few more odd-looking cephalopods in the coming days.
Well, here’s a quick portrait of the crazy parrot herself. (At the moment deciding whether or not she really wants to trust that I haven’t booby-trapped the new perch I just installed.)
Okay, this is the last one. I promise. Then I’ll move onto something more interesting. Like earlobes or spleens.
Though now that I think about it, spleens (despite how fun it is to mention them in casual conversation) don’t look very interesting. Unless, of course, you find a generic lump of something-or-other interesting.
In which case I have some slightly used gum for sale…
See? Because there’s lots of… oh, um… yeah.
See? There’s a lot of shade!!!
Fine, fine… I know. I guess I was just running a bit behind on my bad pun quota. Anyway, this is the first of a few faces I sketched based on some random pictures, just to make myself practice drawing people.
Well, at least he’s having fun, I guess.
Now that I think about it, he does seem to be into rather extreme sports, doesn’t he? I wonder what he’ll do next then…
Bungy jumping? Skydiving?
Maybe he and his good pal Renfield will go whaling…
Any ideas?
This is a sketch I did at the same time as the tree one. Well, okay, not at exactly the same time. I’m not that talented. Or that ambidextrous.
Anyway, I was planning on posting it right after the tree, but things kind of got a bit sidetracked. Anyway, you can expect another glance at the adventures of Oswold pretty soon. He’s probably a bit more interesting than a plant.
Well, this plant, at least.
(click for larger version)
Since it seems that essentially all variations on the archetypal creature known as dragon have already been illustrated at one point or another, I thought I’d base this one a bit heavily on an iguana. Not that I’m saying this hasn’t also been done before, but I’m fairly certain it has been done a bit less than some of the other types.
While reading Kathy’s intriguing tale of the mysterious French-Italian and his magical Dead Sea sand, I felt the need to illustrate the strange goings-on so that countless generations yet unborn may relate to the story at a deeper level, taking away as much of its buried truth as their own stamina allows.
