August was mostly crap, lets be honest here.
But something that kept me sane was participating in the AuGHOST drawing challenge once again.
One prompt a day, one ghost to go along with it. I also did it last year and the year before. I'll be honest, I almost didn't do it this year since it's, you know, drawing for 31 days. I was also low on art supplies, I ran out of room in the little notebook I'd been drawing in. But one Michael's run later and I came home with an actual sketchbook and a few packs of fancy markers. Not the REALLY fancy ones, but they got the job done. And no more lines on the drawings, either! I'm moving up in the world.
I've been under a lot of stress lately (but who hasn't?), but it turns out that drawing relaxed me. Maybe its because all of my concentration was focused on putting shapes on the page? Either way, I should doodle more often.
With that out of the way, let me show you this year's ghosts!
1) Bright
My thought going into this was to draw Homer Simpson wearing Henry Kissinger's glasses from memory.
But he came out looking more like George Costanza, or Colin Robinson from What We Do in The Shadows. This was my first attempt in the new style, and didn't quite realize that the markers smudged. That's drawing left handed for you.
2) Wax
One of a few "this looked better in my head." It was my first time playing around with shadows. I pictured the ghost being a candle, but I thought it was cooler if the flame was in its mouth and not on top of the head.
3) Confine
Wow Ghost was promised a nice cask of Amontillado, but things didn't turn out as well as he hoped it would be.
4) Lure
Everyone knows ghosts LOVE free bird seed!
(Yes, that's supposed to be bird seed. Grayscale is weird)
5) Watery
"Get him a red hat and a Speedo." My first thought for this prompt was "Life Aquatic." Didn't come out as well as I'd hoped, kinda forgot what Bill Murray's beard looked like.
6) Ornate
Look at him with his lil Burger King crown. Gonna admit it, but this was my favorite ghost I ever drew. Crown aside, he's just a perfect drawing and I spent the rest of the month trying to recapture that.
7) Time
Time is certainly a flat circle here. Was thinking of the classic Mickey Mouse watch for this one.
8) Electric
Creepy. Kooky. Mysterious. Spooky. Altogether ooky.
Pretty good facsimile to Uncle Fester, if I must say.
9) Well
That's a weird hand...thing reaching out of that well. It was this or I tried to draw Ghost Ronald Reagan (he DID say "well" a lot.)
10) Scattered
Smothered and covered!
11) Puppet
Ghost muppet! I didn't like how the mouth came out, though. I panicked.
12) Roast
Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do!
13) Airy
"Say, did somebody say...box kits?"
"No!"
I liked how this came out. I might be spatially impaired, drawing a box kite is a lot harder than you'd think.
14) Grounded
What did ghostie do?!
15) Cryptic
BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!
16) Entwined
This came about when I realized that 2020 didn't seem to have any recurring ghosts, like Wow Ghost was for 2018, and Hatchet Ghost was for 2019. This was tryouts to see if Box Kite Ghost or Bright Ghost were able to be kept around. Turns out glasses are easier to draw than a box kite.
17) Opera
It's not over until the fat ghostie sings!
18) Old Fashioned
"Whuts all this, then?!" I liked the idea of drawing an old fashioned Bobby cop. Anything else I could think of for this one, like an old wind-up toy, or Dave Thomas from Wendy's seemed harder to draw. Just drawing the hat was tough enough.
19) Garden
See, here's Bright Ghost again who is suddenly Seymour in this drawing. I didn't feel confident enough to draw Audrey II, so I just drew Petey Piranha from Super Mario Sunshine instead. This was another one of my favorite drawings this time around.
20) Beheaded
Ah, the sad, sad tale of Hatchet Ghost. In 2019, he was just this weird ghost with a weird looking hatchet. Then he cut off his arm. Then somehow he cut off his other arm. Then he got his eye scratched out by a cat. Then he got caught in the Ghostbuster's ghost trap. Then somehow he lost a chunk out of his bottom. And now he's lost his head.
21) Telepathic
Ghostie thinks he's Aquaman or something. I think that's supposed to be a fishbowl, but looks more like some sort of bag.
22) Knot
"Not only is it not bad it's knot bread!" This ghost is enjoying a Pretzel Wagon pretzel, like all the movie stars are talking about!
23) Crow
or rather "Croooooow!" I was thinking whether do draw a ghost dressed as The Crow, or one dressed as Crow T Robot from MST3K, then decided to just do both. I gotta say, one came out better than the other one. This version of Crow T looks more like the one who caught on fire. Sorry, Crow.
24) Project
This bit's just not the same without Patrick Swayze.
25) Weathered
I certainly drew out my emotions on the page, there. That was certainly my mood this time a week ago. What a year this month has been.
26) Gory
On top of losing his head, now Hatchet Ghost has to deal with a spear in his chest.
27) Jaunty
This one's evoking a certain singing frog (he only performs when no one else is watching).
Fun fact, that's the second attempt at this prompt. The first one looked like this:
I liked how the upper half came out better here, but then I panicked when I was drawing the lower half. That's supposed to be a leg.
28) Guardian
Don't make him tap the sign.
29) Frost
He's a lil chilly, but he's got a scarf on. I like how this one came out.
30) Egg
Another on the list of "this looked better in my head. I was trying to evoke Sheldon from Garfield & Friends.
At least I have something in common with Rob Liefeld: We can't draw feet.
31) Cosmic
And finally, we have Cosmic. Wow Ghost has the Infinity Gauntlet, we're all fucked. You might be creeped out by this, but it certainly puts a smile on his face. Since it's the last entry, I decided to go all out with the colors. It's the most I've used in a single drawing so far.
I hope you all liked looking at my drawings! Be sure to look up the "#AuGHOST" and "#AuGHOST2020" tags on Twitter and Instagram for more pictures from way better artists than me. See you all in September!
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