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H.P. Lovecraft
Hi all,
So last week I arrived home tired, after a long trip to Rome, turned on my computer and for the first time in over a week opened Photoshop to do some digital artwork. A notification popped up to tell me my graphics card's drivers were out of date, so I momentarily paused to update them, a process that crashed to the dreaded blue-screen-of-death leaving me with a completely unusable desktop computer.
I'm happy to say though that during my time in Rome I'd rediscovered the fun of pencil sketching, so I wasn't going cold turkey through this enforced art-break, though it does mean all my art in this entry is poorly photographed from a notebook I bought from the most charming old stationary shop I found down a side-street in Rome. These are a selection of my random sketches.
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H.P. Lovecraft, looking less scary
I went through a bit of a DotA streak, mostly because there are some amazing artists working on DotA, which is always inspiring.
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Windrunner
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Drow Ranger, with her face markings because they are fun to draw
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Gabe Newell, founder of Valve (secretly pencilled in as the next big DotA hero, like a less hairy Tusk)
My computer is fixed now, but I think I'll be doing a lot more sketches, I'd forgotten the fun of doodling
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Obligatory random girl sketch
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An attempt at Molly Ringwald
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