Dinovember Day Nine
Cory the Cross-Country Corythosaurus (on a Concorde!)
27cm x 35cm (~11"x14")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Okay this one it up so early because I actually did it the other day... I thought I might try and get it to my pal Cory for his birthday, which is today... alas... I did not mail it off, so... he will have to wait until Xmas!
Dinovember Day Eight
Mike the Messenger Maiasaura
35cm x 27 cm (~14" x 11")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Tried to go a little faster and looser on this one. I kind of like it...
Dinovember Day Seven (which I didn't get to posting yesterday)
Thandi the Track Tyrannosaurus
35cm x 27 cm (~14" x 11")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
This was Dinovember Day Three... and I somehow completely forgot to post it HERE!?
Chris the Cyclocross Carnotaurus
35cm x 27 cm (~14" x 11")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Dinovember Day Five.
Bobbie the Bikepacking Brachiosaurus
27cm x 35cm (~11"x14")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Colours seems bit muted on my screen... hmmmmm....
Dinovember Day Four (a day late...)
Bernie the BMX Baryonyx
35cm x 27cm
Ink and water soluble crayon on paper
I had a lot to do on Saturday, so I had to do this one quick!!!
I guess it's a thing... at least for today, still...
Deirdre the DH Diplodocus
27cm x 35cm (~11"x14")
Acrylic Ink on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper
Will there be another tomorrow...? Maybe...
Back to doing these for an October Challenge... I guess...?
Amanda Rides her Kona Coco.
Our friend Shannon had a house-warming party earlier this year, to which I was invited... and... I missed it...
Then she had a birthday party... and, again... I missed it...
Both times I'd meant to have this finished to bring as a gift.... and... didn't...
(that might have been a small part of the reason I didn't go to either... but mostly I just can't stand gatherings....).
It is finished now...
Shannon the Hedgehog rides her vintage cruiser bike named "Geraldine".
I drew Shannon last year in the 2022 Critters on Bicycles Challenge Sketchbook:
Critters on Bicycles - Shannon the Hedgehog
I'll be seeing her tomorrow, so I won't be posting this on Instagram until after that... because... SURPRISE... but I'm relatively certain she does NOT follow this blog... so...
Kind of dropped the ball with getting going on any of these drawing challenges for October... Kind of thought I'd do some MORE Critters on bicycles - to finish filling that sketchbook, as I... didn't get around to doing that... yet...
There are 20 pages left in that sketchbook... There are a few left in the 40/50 days of 40K Challenge Sketchbook as well, which I also was working on last October... maybe I could finish that one up too (There are 11 to do to finish the initial 40... but there are 10 extra pages in the book that I's planned to do another 10 characters on!)...
We shall see.
ANOTHER Critter on a bike!
I haven't done one of these for a while! I did this one as a surprise for a friend who... well... hasn't been having a great time. Was in hospital most of the summer... then back in last week for some surgery...
Edie the Red Boston Terrier Rides a Mountain Bike
(Edie is her dog: Edie the Boston on Instagram)
It's been a slow year, art-wise... Hoping things will pick up in teh next few months. Maybe I need to get in on one of those October drawing challenges to kickstart things... I still have space in the Critters on Bicycles sketchbook that I started LAST October?! Maybe I just need to finish filling THAT up...
I've been kind of slacking off here, lately. Art is still happening (though, admittedly, not as much as last year), I've just been forgetting to share it here...
Here are a few of the things i did in June...
Waitiing....
Keiran had a dance recital - it was a city-wide dance recital for all the high school dance classes. I didn't feel like going because they were going to be performing them at their own school a week or two later... were I wouldn't have to buy a ticket... there would be fewer performances to sit through... and a smaller audience. Also, teh city-wide performance was at Aden Bowman Collegiate - where I went for grades 9-11... and I do not have fond memories of the place...
They got to the school on their own or with classmates and I had to pick them up, so I rode the Tandem to J. S. Wood Branch Library and waited there for them to wander over and meet me. I drew the above picture in my sketchbook while waiting.
Added to the Critters on Bicycles Sketchbook. No one had suggested Track Cyclists. so...
Another added to the Critters on Bicycles Sketchbook. I'd planned to do a BUNCH in June... but these ended up being the only two...
Jackrabbit Rocks a BMX at the Skatepark - 28cmx35cm (11"x14") - ink on paper
Another Critter on a Bicycle, but not in the Sketchbook...
Initially kind of did this one to submit to the group art show done as part of the Nature City Festival... but then... didn't...
The theme this year is Urban Jackrabbits.
The show is currently up at City Perk Cafe in Saskatoon and will be up until August 26th.
Another drawing in the sketchbook for one of Virtual Studio's (on Twitter: @StudioTeaBreak ) Thursday Portrait Challenges. This one is based on ‘Woman Waiting for the Moon to Rise’ painted by Uemura Shōen in 1944
Another drawing in the sketchbook, also for one of Virtual Studio's (on Twitter: @StudioTeaBreak ) Thursday Portrait Challenges. This one was based on ‘Young man tuning a lute’, painted around 1529-1530 in oils on panel by Jacopo Carucci.
Finally, another waiting room drawing of an older fella that was VERY INTERESTED in whatever was on the waiting room TV...
It's been a long time since I rode cyclocross. I kind of miss it. Sometimes.
It's definitely been too long since I worked on any of these Critters on Bicycles! I definitely miss these. Feeling a little out of practice, but hopefully I can keep the momentum going and finish up the book - 19 pages to go!
Aubrie
Tyler
This was done as a two-page spread in the Critters on Bicycles Sketchbook.
Still chugging along... well past October...
Wasn't going to let DINOVEMBER slide on by without drawing ONE dinosaur on a bicycle...
Tyrannosaurus on a Fat Bike - 35cmx28cm (14"x11") - ink on paper
True story - I used to race cyclocross...
Well...
It wasn't so much "race" as it was "show up at races and ride around the course being passed by everyone"...
but, y'know, it was a thing I did...
Tim the Turtle Races Cylclocross
Kath liked the original (done in my sketchbook) so much, she asked if I could do another for her. So I did.
Kath the Cat Hauls Her Kitties Around in a Babboe City Cargo Bike!
35.5x28cm (14x11) - Ink on Paper
Cory the Peregrin Falcon on his old purple Concorde mountain bike.
Oh, how I coveted that purple mountain bike.
Now I have my own purple mountain bike (the PURPLE SURLY KARATE MONKEY!). When I look at my own, I think of that old purple Concorde. I think less about how I coveted that bike, however, and more about how I miss riding places with Cory.
And that is 31 critters on bicycle drawings in 31 days. This is probably the most productive/successful Inktober/October-Drawing-Challenge EVER, for me. Not only did I do a critter on a bicycle each day, MOST days I did one or two ADDITIONAL drawings (mostly for the 40 Days of 40K challenge)!? It was a bit nuts. But it was kind of awesome.
I’m not done thought. There are 60 pages in the sketchbook I’m doing these in, so, I was going to try and just keep going with a drawing in each every day until the end of November to fill up BOTH books (Critters on Bicycles AND 40+ Days of 40K)… But I think that might be a bit much. I do want to keep this momentum going, however, so I will try to do a drawing in ONE of the sketchbooks each day, which means I would finish up around the end of December.
Of course, I also have some other things I’ve been wanting to work on… so I’ll be doing that as well…
Maybe it will be the end of January that I finish both books…?
It’s only just occurred to me NOW, as I’m finishing the 31st drawing, that what I COULD have done to FILL the sketchbook, in one month, was to use only one side of each page - and on the opposing page written something - about the person and/or critter and/or bike… ugh… Maybe NEXT year I’ll remember to do this!
Gerald the Old Grey Squirrel rocks his Echo trials bike.
I did another picture of Gerald bake in June... but apparently didn't post it on this blog!? You can see it here on instagram - different bike, tho. Gerald contacted me just a week or so ago with his suggestion. If he hadn't, I was going to do another one of him on his bmx anyway... Just because he's such an inspiring dude!
Mothra the Ruby Throated Hummingbirb rides a penny-farthing.
Honestly, I had no idea I had so many friends that owned or wanted to ride a penny-farthing. This is only the second one I've drawn, but a few of the others that fired off a dozen suggestions (instead of, y'know, reading the instructions) almost universally included a penny-farthing among their list...
I can't believe this month is almost over, and I've drawn a Critter on a Bicycle EVERY DAY, ALL MONTH!? And, on top of that, almost every day I ALSO drew a picture for the 40 Days of 40K Challenge!? This has definitely been the most productive october-art-challenge-month ever.
I had planned on continuing doing one every day until I finished the sketchbook - which has 60 pages (30 sheets, two sides). That would have carried me all to nearly the end of November... but I think I'm going to power through to the end of the month and then do a few more (finishing up the suggestions I have so far) and then lay off for a bit and do some other stuff.
I would like to finish off the sketchbook - filling it with Critters on Bicycles - maybe by the end of the year... but that might be a bit ambitious, if I'm not doing them as regularly.
We shall see.
