Post 782 - New Year Doodle Dump for January

 

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Post 729 - Mid-March B/W sketching

 

So many tweaks, so many shoppes du photo... all material (c) MMXXV - 2025 - Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary (but not dispensary!)

 

Post 718 - February Sketch Dump #1

 Some more doodling while the TV was barking...or was it the dog?

"All the best people" (I think he's somewhat human, if humane isn't his best feature)

Background for Sfumato #5

Pencil, ink, and blue pencil test

Confused Canine

A joyful blue boy

Just screwing around

Still lurking about

Studies using the "green pencil drawer" in the studio

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Post 713 - January 2025 Sketch Scans

 Some date back to 2022.  Oooh, Old School!

Note to self - blue ink doesn't CZUR scan well

Need to adjust contrast

Step Lively #1

Step Lively #2

Group Photo

Disturbed Princess, or Zombie Homecoming Queen

For ASIFA Central IAD project - test for Plympton style

Using up some Prismacolor

More IAD Plympton poster testing

Plympton IAD Poster test #3

"There once was a ship that went to seeeee...."

I dreamt of tongue depressors

The Soft Road to Nowhere

Schematic

I can pretty much draw these from memory now-adays.

Pencil sketch of rainbow sax

Pencil sketch of single-panel gag

Ever dangling overhead...

Playing with forced perspective

Legal alien, paperwork filed by AI

Oh let's just make swirls

When life hands you ice...

 All material (c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary