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Sketches for Twits 05

tompl — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:17:37 +0000

This is a fairly organic follow-on sketch request courtesy of one very cute (and possibly Ninja grade) bunny. It is for @girlygeekdom who founded the girl geek dinners and does many awesome things in the world of technology.

Kinda somewhere between these two tweets:

http://twitter.com/girlygeekdom/status/3057206218

http://twitter.com/Motoko_K/status/3057831706

Half-tempted to make it super bunny :/ I should have another entry up later that won’t be filled with doodles/sketches but it may end up going live on Tuesday or Wednesday, depends how tired I get.

-Tom

Sketches for Twits 04

tompl — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:07:41 +0000

This is for @Motoko_K a brilliantly geeky server overlord with an excellent taste in anime.

This was the 140 character (or less) sketch pitch: Flying Spaghetti Monster, yr version of what it would look like.
http://twitter.com/Motoko_K/status/2852824846

She gave me a lot of freedom so I opted to make a Flying Spaghetti Monster in God Mecha form… The meatballs are rotating sauce blasters and the eyes are slunk down into a protected visual cradle, its divine noodly appendages feed into graviton armour which continually shifts and reforms about the noodled core. To speak more of the armour is to stand on the brink of madness and rapture!

There were lots of very strange looks in the staff canteen while sketching this, I opted not to explain because they wouldn’t get it anyway…

Apologies for missing my usual update days, I’m swamped with some apprenticeship deadlines so have been mightily distracted.

-Tom

Sketches for Twits 03

tompl — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:29:57 +0000

This is for @shuttler who is the source of my miniature wargaming/collecting envy, beyond that podcasting, gaming and geekery abounds!

This was the 140 character (or less) sketch pitch: 15 ft amazon women defends the city of London from alien jellyfish falling from the sky.
http://twitter.com/shuttler/status/2741841104

I should also add that I had loads of fun with this one, best pitch so far… I don’t normally draw Jellyfish, Big Ben or Amazons. I’m probably going to go over in copic pens and erase what doesn’t make that and give it a touch of copic/prismacolour. Easily more that could be done to take it beyond the sketch stage. I couldn’t resist adding in that text before I uploaded.

(I probably messed up on the 15ft part, I had intended to use the vague height of Big Ben as a marker but “OMG, Jellyfish in the sky while London burns!”)

I’d also like to apologise to the city of London for the sloppiest rendition of Big Ben ever to grace the internet. I really did want to spend hours crafting each beautiful part, I really did!

-Tom