I Is For...I Drew This

My ninth post for the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge, I is for... I Drew This

Someone gave me a sketchbook and after ignoring it for months, I decided it would be a waste if I didn't use it. I'm not particularly good at drawing, but I've discovered that I really enjoy it. I prefer to draw with fine marker pens and mostly in black. The drawings that I like most have some sort of narrative to them.

I was looking through the sketchbook the other day and I decided to post some of the better pictures on here. I don't have a scanner so these are awkwardly taken photographs of the pages of the book propped open. A couple of them are a bit blurrier than I would like. Sorry.

I Drew This:

I probably drew round something for the shape of planet Earth and Africa looks a bit weird. I've drawn lots of variations of this blank-faced character over the years.

I Drew This:

The proportions on this adventurer aren't very good, but I really like the detail (and lack of detail) in the landscape.

I Drew This:

It's a nose. I've always been fascinated by the Sphinx's missing nose. Here's an idea of what we do with a massive stone nose. The black dot on the side of the nose is something showing through from the next page.

I Drew This:

I must have traced Alfred Hitchcock, I'm not that good at faces. I can't explain why I wanted to put him on the end of what looks like a Mosque.

I Drew This:

This is probably the first time I got the proportions of the human form to look right. Sadly you can see the ghostly form of Marvin the paranoid android from the movie of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy floating through from the next page, which somewhat lessens the impact of this picture.