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Welcome to Feb 2019! Here is a bunch of digital drawings that I have completed since LCA2019. Most of this was done when I was at my Mothers place. I have not really done much drawing since I have been back in Sydney.

Drawing the character on the shirt of the character. Character is in water. Basic shapes in distance and few clouds in the sky.

An eye looking to the right with bad looking teeth. Neck joins down somewhat with a circle body. Waves at the bottom.

Lots of portrait studies at the bottom. A few stars in the sky.

Two full character studies.

A angry looking portrait. Four tentacles as arms. Wave sea at the bottom, clouds in the sky and hills with rectangle marks on the horizon.

A character with one leg on the right. A combo of circles and waves for the ground and cricles for the sky.

spikycirclesky.

kiwipycon ideas. I will likely make the print schedule, and the slide decks.

sad faced character.

The letter A to the left. Build out a creature from that.

A figure drawing on the left. Waves for the ground. Clouds in the sky and hill bumps.

Character in the top left, almost in line with the horozin line. Wave in the bottom. Rectangle building shapes in the sky.

I found some photos of family from years ago - including one of me on my bike. I would of been around 13-14 years old so I decided to draw it. The dreadlocks were very cool.

sunflowermonster

A globe on the right. This was drawn well watching the new netflix show Carman Sandiago.

First update since my trip to New Zealand. I stayed at a airbnb in Christchurch for the hackfest lca2019 where I got some art done before having to packup my stuff in order to make room for AV room setup. Once the conference started I started at the student accommodation. I spent the majority of this time doing the post production video editing. In the evenings I took the drawing setup to the common room where I mostly just drew myself, but had a few others also have a go.

A sharklike creature to the right. This was a smaller image size than normal. Lots of circles with a X through the center.

LCA2019 logo with arrows around it. Slug like shapes with circles growths.

Someone drew this at LCA2019. Full troll figure and a troll portrait. A house on a hill and a emo kid holding something.

Circles within circles linked by rectangles.

Circles in the sky. Water ripples in the lower half. Building emerging from the horizon.

Portrait of someone from RedditGetsDrawn. Landscape in the background. Water ripples in the lower quarter and spiky mountains in the sky. Square shapes scatter the sky.

Portrait of a girl from RedditGetsDrawn. I like the braids. A strong figure. Minimal background.

Lots of figures and portraits. Along with circles.

The horizon line is very low. Building structures emerge from this. Lots of circles in the sky, with circles inside the circles.

A portrait of a girl from RedditGetsDrawn. She had a birthmark on her face. In the background a mall scene - windows, shops and people.

Yanikeke portrait from RedditGetsDrawn. Wearing glasses and standing in front of the American flag.

ok I lied. Here is another update before my flight out. I’ve rewritten my blog cms and it really is much easier for me to update now. It could be better. And it’s something I will always continue to work on and improve. I took Carries penguin she drew and remixed it. Many times. This is the results. There is a penguin in every drawing.

Another lie. No penguin in this one. There is a character portrait on te left. A landscape border behind, with a questionmark shape emerging for the horozen line. More of the question mark shapes in the background.. as clouds. I started watching Batman Forever so I think I was influenced by that. The Riddler is one of my favorite characters.

Depending on the power up picked up, the penguin changes appearance. The changes on his head reflect the sign he is holding. There are six penguins in this piece. Each of them holding a different sign/headpiece. Which is your favorite? I think I like the flower/circle bottom center.

Penguin Hold Sign written on top right. Very loose and rough drawings of the penguin. Lots of experiments with scale - making one side of face large and other small. Spikes coming out of the head on some of the penguins.

Mostly just a landscape but a penguin on the left. He is missing the circle on his stomach. A worm like create to his right with spikes along the body. Normal clouds in the sky and ripples of water below.

Three penguins and a attempt of drawing a sideways one.

This will be my final post before I fly to New Zealand for Linux Conference Au. I will be back in Sydney at the start of Feb though. I plan on bringing my painting gear to New Zealand, so will likely do an update or two.

I have not been drawing people on redditgetsdrawn but I have been drawing random landscape. This is the results.

I was quite excited to find out that a bunch of work entered the public domain on 1st Jan 2019. One of the items - a Charles Chaplin film. This was drawn as I watched the film. Got to love public domain!

A character standing on a plank in a landscape. Ripple affects below and to the right. Behind circles.

Filling in the center area with scribbles. A fork pieces the ocean.

Family terms. Character in color to the left.

I’ve been enjoying making these large curve shapes. They are very satisfying.

Two pens with clouds and spiky landscape surrounding.

Rewatching 12 monkeys. I have no idea how many times I have watched this show. It’s so good.

I hope you have had a good start to the New Year. I’m on a roll with a second post for the new year - and publish of artwork created in 2019. This is a mixture of software ideas (bubble tea order system, language learning quiz system) and the usual landscapes.

There isn’t much in terms of ordering bubble tea through digital means so I thought I would work on a system for it. These are sketch ideas for it.

circlefigure landscape

crazyeyes. One looking down and one looking up. I have new glasses so won’t be getting as much headaches and issues seeing now.

language learning quiz. I’ve been using quite a few apps and some have great ideas, some not so good. I’d like to take some of those good ideas and build an app to help people learn new languages.

RedditGetsDrawn - liamfuture. I made a request to get unbanned from RedditGetsDrawn and it’s been accepted. Nice.

Pepper and Carrot drawing. But this time it is just Carrot who is looking very angry.

Portable Pi Workstation. One idea would be to package my setup and encourage others to buy the setup - skim a fee off the top.

skyciclerotate

squareheadlandscape.

Happy New Year! It’s 2019. To celebrate the new year I have moved the blog to a new server (it is still DigitalOcean). I have also upgraded the version of Nikola to v8 and fixed all the old blog wordpress posts that were still directing images to artcontrol.me rather than the local directory. I was experiencing lots of lag on the old server so hopefully this new one is better. I still would like to look at moving the site to aws s3 or google cloud in the future.

Here some art from the end of 2018:

A random couple on RGD. I didn’t write down their name and can’t find it now. Oh well.

A character with a landscape. The character has an interesting shaped head.

Another work that I drew from RGD.

A landscape

A drawing of mesanthrope from RGD. I liked her circle glasses and the turn of the head.

A drawing of socooooooooool from RGD. I liked how her hands are folded and the peacefulness of the scene.

A drawing of SquareCircleHills. It’s a landscape.

A drawing of YiyiChu from RGD.

I’ve been drawing a few portraits from RedditGetsDrawn and of real life friends. There is also the usual imagination landscape and creature works.

Oliveap1 from RedditGetsDrawn. I choose to draw this as it was a full figure. I didn’t scale it correctly so reduced the size of the image as I went. I have been working with the toolbar on the left side. It’s better as it gives me easy access to other tools (no external keyboard).

Jack. I meet him at Hackathons and he’s great for UX and pitching.

spikesmiles

I signed up to an account on Liberapay and decided to redraw the logo that I may add to the site for a link. I don’t have a side bar though, so unsure where I would put it. Perhaps a support page with links to referal kind of stuff.

blueface

squggleboob.

line version of libpay logo.

another landscape

rocketland

I went on a date and took my digital artwork pi workstation with me. At the bar I got it out and did some collaborate drawing with Carrie.

This is the results along with a few other bonus.

An anime character I was drawing from my phone.

A portrait of Carrie that I drew.

Cocktail glasses that Carrie drew well I was in the restroom. She got me to try to guess what it was. I could recognize the glasses but it took a few hints to notice it was the scene.

Carrie drew several animals - a cat then a penguin. It was very exciting when she drew the penguin as it is one of my favorite animals. A goat would of topped it off!

I mentioned Tux and she gave the penguin a tuxedio.

A page of scribbles created by Carrie. Warming up!

gimp logo character drawn. I’m surprised I have not drawn him in the past. There are also notes on the page for the Mandarin that I have been learning. It’s important that I learn new stuff!

A drawing from photo of a man holding up two signs that say: “the left” and “can’t meme”

A cat in color with a landscape in the background. I did most of it but Carrie helped finish it off.

An octopus landscape.

Sadface machine drawing.

A character with short arms.

Drawing over a drawing multi times gives an interesting affect.

building spikes.

I’ve been quite focused on the digital drawing this month. I even took the portable drawing pi to a hackathon. It was neat to show a few people it along with using to draw some portraits and designs for the hacathon project.


Chinh front portrait. A fellow team member in my hackathon project. She focused mostly on the frontend of the project but also designed a really awesome logo for the project. I drew this portrait of her.

A second portrait of Chinh. This one is from the side and there is nothing in the background.

circle sky drawing

dribble landscape

drawing graph from econ blog on rent changes.

remix of elephant drawing of Grace.

govhack logo remix.

high towers in a landscape. very spiky.

kiwicon logo remix.

hackathon designs.

self portrait of me.

mountains spirtal.

nasa space apps logo remix.

hackathon project designs.

sad bear.

sad face.

snoopy. one of my favorite xmas songs.

spike character.

sun and landscape.

took my pi out and draw in sydney city. street views.

another view in sydney city that I drew.

ideas for how many trees in sydney tech test i was given.

artctrl logo drawing, along with idea generation of freelancer hackathon ideas.

The character on the bottom looks quite anxious/nervous. Lots of stars and characters floating around the scene.

4 Characters

Female character from imagination. Covered in squares that causes a tattoo like look. Dead is backwards.

The character on the left has a hat and a horse behind them.

Chinese character in top left. Land in the background with water coming towards the foreground. One main character floating above the water.

Phill from GCHQ drawing.

The most minimal drawing of the bunch. My Pi ran out of memory with large file so I had to close the file and create a new one. The character on the left has pants with spikes spiraling around them. There is also a cross in the center.

Attended Freelancer Hackathon. My team was quite large - around 8 people. Normally I like to work with smaller groups when I do hackathons. I find between 2 and 4 people to a team works this. This was a piece of artwork that I created for TeamLancer.

TeamLancer hearts. Portrait in the center that has been filled with yellow and blue - the same line that I use for the line.