Doodles – Walker and the Unused

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I’ve mentioned before I draw and write every morning. My usual aim is six tales, six square panels and one full page of monsters by 11 am. I thought I’d share a page today of doodles and how they look up until final use.

I’ve used a couple of the creatures for the Colour Collective on Twitter. The other’s haven’t been touched yet. Some separated out monsters from the image above first. I take a photo of the page, then select by colour in GIMP to get the monsters digitized.

Reptile.

Two-headed reptile scorpion.

Possibly snot.

Some of the characters ended up in the Colour Collective posts.

Walker.

One of two-headed reptile scorpions heads.

Walker was based on an image in an upcoming story. The story image was doodled about five months ago and was an undefined creature on the road to the afterlife. I find something very appealing about her. She had a single tale doodle and was never used again.

Last use, their appearance in my Threadless store. Most of the leg works been done digitizing the creatures so turning them into prints and tees is pretty easy.

I quite like Walker on a tee. She’ll be available on my Threadless store shortly.

Some links to finish with.

My Threadless store.

littlefears.threadless.com

I use Faber Castell PITT Artist Pens and Seawhite of Brighton paper.

Faber Castell PITT Artist Pens

Seawhites of Brighton Sketchbook

 

40 thoughts on “Doodles – Walker and the Unused”

      2. Kinda acrylic paint pens. They are what I use for all the tile images for each story. Wonderfully messy when abused! 🙂

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    1. Threadless… Ahh, OK. The service has been great. The quality took a drop about May this year on the Tees, however, it’s still the best out there along with Society 6.I can’t stand Zazzle and CafePress who use paper thin, fruit of the loom and guildan. My sales are about 95% tees and 5% prints. I don’t know why the prints don’t sell from Threadless. I think I need to make a return to Etsy for the art prints and keep the Threadless store as tees. My store shows I have never had a returned item to Threadless.

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      1. Many thanks. I’ve had a few greeting card requests. I think the problem with threadless regarding anything but clothing is the name. I think Etsy’s is a good idea. Your book covers absent of words of course would make nice prints also.

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      2. Yeah, I think everything crafts need to be Etsy for the best results. Also as a rough idea, you make $3’ish per sale from Threadless. $5 for tees. With the massive dip in sales of Threadless vs Selling your own and reduction in profit, it’s just not worth it.

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  7. Faber Castell PITT pens are the best… I like using Pentel Slicci pens as well… Saw one of my favorite artist use it on a You Tube video and fanboy-ed out about it… it is great for getting really tight lines… and I write really small so it helps there too… love the designs Peter…

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    1. Thanks, Layne. Sticcis are the rollerballs, right? I haven’t had many Pentels. Maybe a few writing pens. I did enjoy getting messy with the Pentel correction fluid when the local art store had run out of Tipp-Ex. Can’t wait to be reunited with my Tipp-Ex supply haha (currently in Scotland).

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