ArrantSquid's Skerrible Daily Draw [DD2K12]

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 10:56 pm

Hey all. It's not Feb here yet, but I figured I might as well get a placeholder here so that when I'm freaking out at 11:15 tomorrow night about not drawing, I'll have some solace that I actually have a topic. :) Not sure if I'm hoping to get better or not, but that'd be awesome if it happened. Really just hoping to get some more practice in since I stare at vim or tcsh all day and make things appear on screen with words. :)

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:54 pm

My theme is going to be adjective & animal. I'm using these to generate it:

Animal Generator

Word Generator

Had really hoped to of been able to put the time in on this today, but just couldn't. Too much shit at work going on. So anyhow. Today was Crazy/Turtle.

red monkey · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:00 pm

It's not the rocket, the steam vent or the tentacle freaking me out. Its that tongue... *shudder*

joejoejoejoe · **Joined:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:08 pm **Posts:** 338

lol good stuff

lightbombmike · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:18 pm

haha, this thread has the potential for much awesome.

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:35 pm

Thanks guys. And Mike, we'll see how much "awesome" comes out of this. LoL. I may draw a silly snake in the shape of an S tomorrow. And it'll look like an S with a tongue. :)

I may actually re-visit this crazy/turtle idea on the last day of the month as well to make it better and close the circle - so to speak.

AnimationMerc · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:51 pm

It's kinda like a Lovecraftian pokemon.

Shrill Llama · **Joined:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:44 pm **Posts:** 28

In the spirit of your first picture's characteristic tongue, I submit that your theme for this month should be "Creatures licking things".

Igo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:05 pm

Awesome idea man, now I wanna mix a turtle and an octopus, how the fuck havent I done that before?

Fennewalde · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:18 am

amalgamations are always cool but the squid tentacle looks more like extreme battle damage. Maybe that's why the turtle is so crazy. He's been riding around the waves with a tentacle through the roof.

Also, motor pipes out the shell remind me of something Hardsloth did a few years back. Check out his illustration blog if you're interested!

iNate · **Joined:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:46 pm **Posts:** 6

red monkey wrote:

It's not the rocket, the steam vent or the tentacle freaking me out. Its that tongue... *shudder*

thought the exact same thing

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:23 pm

Day 2: Atomic/Swan (the second choice was otter, but I chose swan for some reason)

Not overly excited about the outcome as I had a hard time thinking of how to join those two words together. I'm thinking I may end up with better results if I start bringing my laptop and tablet to work so I can do some quicker sketches in there Photoshop (We run Linux here so no PS on the work computer). We'll see. I'm excited I actually drew both days thus far so yeah. :)

Oh and I put the tongue sticking out since it had been mentioned a few times that it was creepy. Maybe it's just the idea of the turtle tongue (cause those are creepy) that was creepy.

lightbombmike · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:14 am

haha, "tongues out" is how I will forever say hello to you from now on.

So much random fun is coming out of this generator you are using.

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:20 pm

It's fun, but it's definitely only pushing my mind to try and think about how to combine them, not how to make a drawing that rocks. I'll stick with the theme for now and wait till I get home to try and bang something out, but I don't feel like my shit is worthy of being up here when I look around at everyone else's. I'll still play if only because I said I would, but I don't see much good coming outta here. My biggest problem is the disconnect between my brain and my hand. I can see exactly what I want, describe it in infinite detail, but it doesn't matter because what translates to my hand is the same thing that comes out my ass. That's my biggest hurdle with drawing and always has been. Still trying to figure out how to overcome it, but I don't think it's something I can do.

anim8d · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:09 pm

Whatever man, just keep drawing! The more you do it the more the brain and hand will connect. So far the amalgamations are sweet!

Metal Hand · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 6:42 pm

The tongue is very inviting.

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:59 am

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:03 am

Fuck. Almost didn't make it. LoL. Well I obviously deviated from the adjective/animal thing today. Unfortunately I had no freaking time to do anything today so at about 11:30 I realized I had no time to do this so I went looking for my wacom for 20 minutes to not find it so I was pissed and decided that I would do a quick warm up sketch. This was my warm up sketch I did while on the shitter and didn't have time to do anything else because... fuck who cares... here.

Alright, so the theme for this one is: "Known Evil vs Unknown Evil". What a day. And that pretty much describes it.

Mr.SpoonHead · **Joined:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:57 pm **Posts:** 186

wow that animal generator is awesome i've got to try it out!
and the tongues out could really be your signature, every drawing you made would have a tongue out THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!! :happy:

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:17 pm

Missed yesterday and I'll miss today's as well. I'm working on something for the forums here and trying to wrap it up so everyone can partake in the awesome, so this coming week I'll redeem myself with double drawings each day. Doesn't make up for missing, but this thing is gonna be really awesome so stay tuned. :)

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:10 am

As expected I didn't get to draw today, BUT I did write some kick ass code that's gonna be super freaking awesome when it gets implemented on here. :) Can't wait to see what you guys think of it - if it goes live, LoL.

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:15 am

As promised here's sketch one of two for the day:

This was just me warming up with my new wacom. Old one wsn't working and the pen got lost somewhere during my move. Now I gotta get my second one with the theme. :)

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:51 am

I ended up getting a gem today. Honestly I don't think I could have asked for two words to fit together any better (pun intended). My words today: Oral/Earthworm

I almost feel compelled to draw another despite the gem I got already. We'll see.

anim8d · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:55 am

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:42 am

This one is just kinda meh. Didn't have enough time to color or texture it up. And it has no theme. It's like a cat, skull & squid or some shit like that.

But it's past the submission time and I started it yesterday so it counts for dick. :)

AnimationMerc · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:33 pm

I heart oral earthworm! It's like an ouroboros but... creepier.

Why do your wacom sketches look like paper? Is that some program?

Looking forward to seeing what this badass code thing is. It is the super-TD thing to do to sacrifice his own art to make everyone else's better :)

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:37 pm

It's actually just a texture. I scanned in a brown paper bag that I crumpled the hell out of. I use it frequently when needing to add texture to stuff (like in this for example: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=arrantsquid#/d34dcab).

joejoejoejoe · **Joined:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:08 pm **Posts:** 338

fun town over here :!bf:

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:45 pm

Todays words: Weird/Reindeer

Actually happy with how this came out. Not ecstatic, but happy. Not sure I'll get a second one in today though since I'm the "boss" again tomorrow at work so that means I need to make sure I'm actually out of the house in time to kill every Dallas driver... I mean to drive with all of the idiots that go the same direction I do in the morning. I'd put a smiley here, but I really can't stand Texas drivers. They all need to come to the midwest so they can figure out that the left hand lane is for 80-90, not freaking 60 (which is the damn speed limit). Hell I'd settle for 60 most freaking days.... What the fuck am I talking about? Why does anyone care? Blah blah blee bloo blah!

Metal Hand · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:39 am

Oral Earthworm looks like a cock ring. lol

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:03 pm

Todays Words: Sly/Clam

No time to color him, plus I had to use GIMP to do this. Not really familiar with GIMP, but it worked for a quick doodle.

Doubt I'll be able to post a second since my internet at home appears to be out as of this morning. Yay.

anim8d · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:48 pm

Dude! Love the lines on this latest one!

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:13 am

Another missed one. But it looks like we've almost got some awesomeness running here which is why I didn't get a chance to do any drawings. I thought it was pretty foolproof, but it turned out being a bit more tweaking of my original code because of how it's being called than I originally thought. This post was far too nerdy for an art forum. Ignore me. :arghh:

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:47 am

Stinky/Squirrel

Tried coloring it, but got burnt out because I tried doing something different that failed (and I had tried before so I should have remembered it failed then too) and finally said fuck it.

ArrantSquid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:29 am

I'd say I'd do 2 drawings tomorrow, but... Well actually now that the awesome is almost finished I might be able to. We'll see. Hopefully the awesome goes live shortly. Until then I need some freaking sleep.

InkJuse · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:45 pm

The awesome is too awesome. Please have the internets now.

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