Daily Sketch: Creature Ink Drawing In Progress

 

An ink sketch of something Hellish I am working on for some huge amount of hours here and there. I want to layer up the inks, make it darker and fill the whole page with creature elements if I can, absolutely fill the background.

I am determined to keep this just a black ink sketch, if needed I'll use a white pen to whiten some areas at the end.

I've seen some vastly superior Artists draw this type of stuff, but I'm still learning, I need to work out a drawn border into my works to keep them nice and neat.

This will be a licensed artwork when complete.

I tend to have a habit with drawing with not great pens, but easier to use the Zebra Ola gel ink pens, although they are not archival ink quality, I may have to start using pens that are.

Daily Sketch: Split Face Horror Ink Sketch

 

This split face horror ink sketch is a new ink design intended for a t-shirt design. And when finished properly cleaning up the inks, I'll be selling this as a licensed artwork on my art store here - Wayne Tully Horror Art Store.

For a few years now, I've been drawing various variations of this theme, all inspired by The Thing as always. Not really sure were these creations come from.

The process of inking these imagined ideas is always the fun part, to see where the drawing goes from pencil sketch to finished ink drawing.

Daily Sketch: Dark Dimensional Cosmic Horror Art

 

Another Dark dimensional cosmic horror artwork, part of a series of 10 art pieces that will form the same theme of horror creatures.

Still a work in progress colour wise. The red colours of the worm like tentacles need more work, as does the yellow background.

Eventually, I will complete the colours of these ten illustrations, so that I can get some Limited Edition Giclee art prints made and I won't be selling the original artworks anytime soon.

This series of art pieces will be the first of many different series, with an 80's horror movie poster series of 12 posters planned for after this themed series.

Daily Sketch: Dark Cosmic Creature Art (Work in Progress)

 

Part of a series of artworks I've been working on for several months in between other work.

Dark Dimensional Creatures of the Cosmos will be 10 large A3 artworks of various cosmic creature entities, all in full colour. you may have seen some of the others in various stages of development on this blog elsewhere.

I liked this one with the reds and the blues just contrasting well together. Still a work in progress, as I want to work on utilizing more paint to create layers over the top of the Copic Markers and Faber Castell Polychromos coloured pencils.

I hope to complete these and I'll show you the full series of themed cosmic art that are very much inspired by the creatures of HP Lovecraft.

Daily Sketch: A Demonic Death Creature Ink Drawing

 

Todays sketch is of a Demonic Creature, an ink drawing that has quite possibly more to add to it as always with some of these ink drawings.

A large part of creating these artworks, one of the main reasons that some are left unfinished is I either get stuck with what more I can add to the design or I get another similar idea to draw and off I go drawing that next image disregarding the one or ones that I'm working on at any one time.

There are definitely more creations that will be in the similar style and excess details that I've done here coming in the future.

Daily Sketch: A Death Metal Creature Ink Drawing

 

Lately, I've been working quite a lot on concept art for skateboard and merch (T-shirt) designs and also trying to apply more effort drawing the stuff I really love to draw and that is stuff from my imagination.

The written descriptions of HP Lovecraft provide great inspirations for the creatures that I like to draw. This design looks a little wide for a Skateboard, but I guess it could be applied to a t-shirt or some other licensed design.

I use various ink pens such as gel ink pens, as they are cheap and disposable and Sharpie markers for darker areas to be inked.

These types of designs always need developing as I am keen to make them a lot more complex in design with way more inky details.

Daily Sketch: Death Metal Demon Art

Daily Sketch of a Death Metal Spider like Demon creature.

I am pursuing the licensed art sales of a number of artworks here on my store - Licensed Wayne Tully Art and prices may rise depending on how popular or in dmeand my original licensed artworks become.

I seem to draw these black and white horror creatures a lot lately, usually in a state of decomposed flesh and textures which make them look rotten and that is the idea with these ink drawings.

I'm aiming to create more in the series of death metal artworks over the coming months and years in between other art project commitments.

 

Daily Sketch: Zombie Werewolf Ink Drawing

 I drew this quite recently, a Zombie Werewolf ink drawing, a loose ink sketch that I challenged myself to create on a TikTok live art stream, usually the best way of tackling drawing something is to face it head on and just start sketching.

With this particular ink drawing I was concerned about the ink textures and trying to get that right and balance the whole sketch with light and dark areas.

I've drawn many werewolves over the years, but this is the best head shot I've created. Inking hair so that it looks good has always been a challenge, but I've found that if you create darker hairy areas and create a shape to the hair, it works better.

You can buy the original artwork here - Zombie Werewolf Art

Here is a very short timelapse of me drawing this Zombie Werewolf.

Daily Sketch: Old Drawings Always Give Me Art Inspiration

 

This old drawing, I must have drawn it a few years ago and it still gives me inspiration to draw new stuff as the ink details really make me excited about drawing similar horror skull stuff.

At the time of creating this piece, I'd already drawn similar pieces intended for a collected series entitled Torture Skulls in which I drew various skulls, zombie, demon or otherwise with various chains and hooks and spikes sticking through the skulls and kept them all black and white.

I guess, I'll have to link to this post, others in the series, so you could see them all.

Daily Sketch: Neon Green Horror Skull Art

 

When I plan to go live over on YouTube, often I really don't know what I'm going to draw and this horror skull was created with the ink drawing first and then I had the idea of using some Neon Acrylic Paints that were just not being used.

You can see that art stream replay here - Drawing a Horror Skull Concept

The original idea behind this design was for a t-shirt design, one type of artwork that would have a central and uncomplicated image that could fit on any colour t-shirt (except probably green, who knows lol)

The unexpected glowing look of the neon green and yellow paints was something that looked cool and it gives a nice radioactive feel to the skull.

I definitely will be using those neon paints again!

Daily Sketch: Demonic Parasite Ink Sketch

A Demonic parasite ink sketch concept I drew in a recent art stream here - Drawing Demon Parasite

I wanted the premise to be that the parasite had drained the life force out of the mans head, that's why it looked zombified and rotting away and then the parasite after feeding off it's host for some time, just suddenly bursts out of the hosts chest and eats through the hosts brains leftovers and then on to another host the parasite would go.

Such a lovely design of my usual ink sketchy artwork. This was based on an idea in my head and it turned out pretty much how I thought it would, only a bit better.

I would have liked to add more brain chunks and the eye a bit more mangled in the ink sketch, but I'm happy with the way it was created.

Daily Sketch: Dark Demon Soul Necronisphere Ink Sketch

 

This is a variation of the one I did here - Dark Demon Soul Art and I wanted to make a few changes, just to get the design looking right in my mind and on paper.

The demon skull had to be a bit more in the centre and the other skulls stretching rotten flesh surrounding it, it was a minor change that I felt I had to do, although I do like both designs, I do feel that I could do a 3rd version of this drawing and mix it up even further.

Something that I never thought about whilst drawing these, they look like pizzas, which was unintentional.

Again, I'm still working on this concept for a t-shirt design and although I like the drawings so far, I feel it just needs a little bit more development and also finishing or rather neaten up the inks on the drawings.

Daily Sketch: Dark Demon Souls Necrosphere Ink Drawing

 A dark demon souls necrosphere ink sketch I did in an art stream here - Drawing Dark Thing

This was just a concept sketch based on an idea I had for a t-shirt design, it may need some re-working as half way through like most drawings I had a better idea,but it still is a valid ink sketch and one that I could develop in time.

I didn't want to make the design complicated and one that would have been difficult to cut out from the white background as most t-shirt designs must be a transparent image.

I drew a similar piece years ago, and I coloured that in green with the skulls not really looking demonic like in this photo.

I guess this is another common theme for me to draw. The thick outline on the top of the design really is bugging me, so I'll have to work on that a bit, maybe get some more inky textures in there to work that thick ink line out.

I love inking this stuff!

Daily Sketch: An Inked Cthulhu Ink Drawing Commission

 In today's Daily Sketch I wanted to focus on this Cthulhu creature sketch that I created for a client a few months ago. They wanted a Chihuahua head with tentacles and claws and something that would look quite creepy and horror themed and so this was what I came up with.

Before I sent the final image I had to edit the tentacles around the dogs mouth as they had to go.

For most of 2020 and 2021 sketching, drawing and inking these Cthulhu themed creatures has become an obsession and one that I happily embrace any chance that I get.

When it comes to the inking process, I love inking all the textures on creatures skin, the flesh texture is one of the most relaxing to do on these monster drawings.

 For awhile I've been offering an illustration service drawing these Cthulhu creatures over on Fiverr. And the gig that you can check out is here  - Draw You Dark Cthulhu Creature Art if you or someone you know may want one of these types of creature drawings.

Daily Sketch: Azathoth H P Lovecraft Creature Ink Drawing

 Here is an ink drawing sketch I did of Azathoth, a HP Lovecraft creature of the cosmos who was said to be a writhing mass of tentacles. I also did a live art stream in which I drew and inked this artwork.

Here's the art stream - Drawing Azathoth Creature

Daily Sketch #1 Zombie Horror Head

 So this is a zombie horror head ink drawing I did in a live art stream over on YouTube. I shall try and post a drawing daily here, no matter what, even if it's not quite finished or even if I don't think it's good enough.

Doing daily sketches for this purpose can help you improve in your drawing and really helps you focus on the art that you want to create.

Daily Sketching

Been a while since I tried to do any daily sketching and post the results here, so I thought I would do just that today. A few of these sketches are of projects I am currently working on and mean stuff only to me and the way that my art projects are going, they are going quite well. All things considered I should have done this art online thing years ago, but now I'm here. I shall just do whatever....

This first sketch was a very quick sketch from a planned graphic novel and it sums myself up pretty well as I used to be this Boy looking into the water and dreaming and thinking about the future. (And still am really!) This Boy quite literally has the weight of the World on his shoulders and I can't wait to start work on this graphic novel as it has been around 12 years now since I had the idea for this epic graphic novel series with a planned 8 or 10 volumes.

This next sketch was a random quick pencil sketch of the Clive Barker horror character Rawhead Rex. I wanted to try and add more teeth in there and try and make it seem different to that movie that Clive had no connection with whatsoever. I suppose a re-working of the creature design would be a good move as it sort of does appear quite average looking at this point, but I hope to develop my own personal take on this creature and draw him in future updates. The best part about Rawhead Rex from the short story in The Books of Blood was the vague description that Clive gave him which left open a massive amount of inspiration and mystery that could be conjured up for this nasty vicious  but ultimately awesome creature (There just has to be a remake movie of Rawhead Rex, if Clive ever gets the movies rights delivered back to him by some miracle, I hope he has some involvement with it.)