ArtCtrl

Open licenced artwork by William Mckee

October 2023

This is artwork for October 2023. Some portraits from RedditGetsDrawn and some landscapes/characters from no reference.

alice_troublemaker.png

A sketch of alicetroublemaker from RedditGetsDrawn. I like the tilt of the head and the shoulder blades.

iran.png

Iran 1970s

lemastersg.png

A sketch of lemastersg from RedditGetsDrawn. I like the Mummy costume, and the skeleton in the background.

monster-landscape.png

A sketch of a monster in a landscape.

oneeye-landscape.png

A sketch of a one eye character in a landscape.

snowgoonsquad.png

Portraits of snowgoonsquad from RedditGetsDrawn.

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Aug 2023

Artwork for Aug 2023, a mix of rgd and random sketches.

house-people.png

rgd-laurenEllenx.png

A drawing of LaurenEllenx from RedditGetsDrawn

sunshine-lanescape.png

A landscape

wavehand-sketch.png

A sketch

wavesky-sketch.png

Another sketch.

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FOSS Asia 2023

This is from my trip to Singapore where I attended FOSS Asia. Some of the drawings are on the plane, some are from the conference.

edge.png

A talk about the Edge

fossasia.png

Drawing FOSS Asia logos and people on stage (during keynotes / intros)

grafana.png

Grafana

lawyer.png

A law talk at the conference.

man-landscape.png

A landscape drawing on the plane which includes a man.

openeuler.png

Openeuler, one of the sponsers of the conference.

redisvspostgres.png

Redis VS Postgres talk.

star-landscape.png

A landscape drawing with a star.

zigzag.png

ZigZag. Getting warmed up with the drawing tools on the plane.

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march 2023

Artwork from March 2023. Mostly RedditGetsDrawn with one exception.

rgd-AkumeHikari

AkumeHikaril from RGD. Emo looking, reminds me of My Chemical Romance which I saw at live a couple of weeks ago.

rgd-Aphrodicia-Mortiis

Aphrodicia-Mortiis from RGD. I like the Rose she is holding.

rgd-LaceyBambola

LaceyBambola from RGD. Fully body pose. The cloth she is wearing is snake like, scales.

rgd-TheLunaMelody

TheLunaMelody from RGD. I like the angle, looking up at the figure. She is wearing skates along with headgear.

rgd-victoriahill34

victoriahhill34 from RGD. It was a full body photo, but managed to only fit in the upper half. Holding a phone.

rgd-ganjagodess-xo

gonjagodess from RGD. Great position of arms and hands. Getting them right is tough!

rgd-white_widow_23

white-widow-23 from RGD. Elf ears.

rgd-morgyph

morgyph from RGD. Interesting tattoo on her arm and leaning forward posture.

stand-for-women

Stand For Women. I attended the Posie Parker event.

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jan 2023

Welcome to 2023. Here is some artwork:

artctrl-thumbnails

artctrl logo sketching, along with thumbnails of landscapes. Focus on moon character.

gw2-yearrabbit

Happy Year of the Rabbit. Guild Wars 2 fan art.

landscape

A landscape

peppercarrot-37

Pepper and Carrot pushing a machine with the letters 37 on it.

peppercarrot-machine

Pepper and Carrot standing in front of a machine.

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december 2022

Welcome to the art of December 2022. I hope you have had a wonderful year.

addrecipe

Addercipe for mobile app development.

bella_cosplay

Portrait of /u/bella_cosplay from redditgetsdrawn.

elenathekitten

Portrait of /u/elenathekitten from redditgetsdrawn.

isolation-sam

Portrait of /u/isolation-sam from redditgetsdrawn.

landscape-square

Landscape with squares.

landscape-sun

Landscape with sun.

mel

Portrait of my friend Mel.

mochipuddy

Drawings of Cat Puddy and Dog Mochi.

scatterbrainzzu

Portrait of /u/scatterbrainzzu from redditgetsdrawn.

x160

Portrait of /u/x160 from redditgetsdrawn.

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october 2022

Here is the artwork for October 2022.

calc

UX wireframe design for calculator app that I built for course. We have to use Xamarin forms, which was horrible. For the rest of the projects this term I get to use Swift. The the calc design I used blue in the background and red for the text/outlines.

calc2

Another UX wireframe Calc design. This was the final design and layout I used.

dotplank

Drawing of someone from redditgetsdrawn. I forgot to write down the name! She is holding a plank on the back of her neck.

eye

Eye drawings, including a guest drawing by Wyatt.

harold_grundelson

A drawing of u/harold_grundelson from RedditGetsDrawn. I like the thick rimmed glasses.

hornlandscape

Character with horns and a background landscape.

kitsune-moon

A drawing of u/kitsune-moon from RedditGetsDrawn. I like the outfit and face movement.

knife

Drawing of someone from redditgetsdrawn. Again, I forgot to write down the name! She is holding a knife and a glass of wine.

octo

Octopus creature.

smiilenoleg

Landscape with a few characters.

tentlandscale

Tent on a landscape

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sept 2022

Welcome to September 2022. This month is special because it’s my Fathers and Grandmothers birthday. My Grandmother is the same age as the late Queen. Congrats! I was in Sydney and Melbourne this morning. Didn’t do any artwork, but did attend APIDays Conference. When I returned to NZ I did a bunch of artwork - mostly from redditgetsdrawn. Enjoy ~

landscape-crazybusy

A crazy busy landscape line drawing with both black and red colors. There is a figure on the left with a very long neck.

landscape-fbkeyword

A landscape with alot of water. Some marketing ad notes on the top left.

landscape-hyhmarket

Landscape, Figures and portraits. More marketing ad notes.

landscape-sept22

A landscape with lots of water. No notes on this one!

rgd-aesthel

A drawing of u/aesthel from redditgetsdrawn. I liked her goggles on the forehead and interesting makeup (spots near the eyes)

rgd-aprikahan

A drawing of u/aprikahan from redditgetsdrawn. Simple portrait of her looking to the side, nice necklace and suit.

rgd-artboxcreationsinc

A drawing of u/artboxcreationsinc from redditgetsdrawn. This one reminded me of Pepper and Carrot being witch themed. I liked the patterns on her clothing, interesting shaped glasses, witches hat (which most is missing from my portrait) and straw broomstick.

rgd-lullabyformycat

A drawing of u/lullabyformycat from redditgetsdrawn. Cool tattoos on the arms.

rgd-nosebearnosebear

A drawing of u/nosebearnosebear from redditgetsdrawn. Again, tattoos are fun to draw. This time they were on the arm and shoulder.

rgd-ruairi

A drawing of u/ruairi from redditgetsdrawn. Finally a male! This one is interesting because his head is in the stocks and he is pulling peace symbol.

rgd-thespacecase93

A drawing of u/thespacecase93 from redditgetsdrawn. I like the suit and baldness. Reminds me of of Agent from Hitman. Or maybe Lex Fridman if he lost his hair..

rgd-unknown

A drawing of Unknown from redditgetsdrawn. Normally I’m good at writing down the usernames, but missed it on this one! oh well, might go back through history and find / update later. I like the hate and the arm going over the head.

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august 2022

Artwork for August 2022. Mix of character, landscape, development wireframes, and sketch daily works.

auth-chars

Auth Characters. Playing with opactivy sensitive brushes in Krita.

coolbeard-landscape

Few characters including one of with a cool beard. And a quick sketch of Rania.

japanese_lady

The theme on Sketch Daily was Japan. So I did a search for Japanese lady and drew one.

longarmlegs-landscape

Long arm and legs.

sharparm-chars

Doodling characters.

skull-landscape

A skull from DND.

uglynotes-color

Adding the color to development wireframe. I called the appl Ugly Notes.

uglynotes-line

Development Wireframe for course. It was for a meeting minutes app built with Python. This was the line wireframe.

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July 2022

Welcome to July 2022 artwork

bobsburgers-portraits

I was watching the bobs burgers film on disney+ and sketched this as I was doing it.

darklake-notes

Notes and sketches from dnd session.

facemask-landscape

A landscape with someone in a facemask.

fang-landscape

A landscape with a fang.

peppercarrot-lookout

Pepper Carrot frontpage sketch with Pepper looking out over a landscape. red-hills

Red Hills. Playing with tools and brushes in Krita. scrible-star

A landscape with scrible star.

triangle-face

A triangle face

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