I CAN'T Seem To Draw Dragons Facing Toward The Right!

Well...Except for this one, maybe.

Don't mean to sound defeatist. I guess it's not so much that I CAN'T...I just tend NOT to. 

Maybe it's a right-handed thing.

I've done two Human Canvas sessions with dragons. The first was in Riverside, California.

The next was a couple months later...in Istanbul. 

This one was the third of THREE done one night at Arsah. THE place to go, if you find yourself in Istanbul. 

Seriously.

 I was, of course, happy to have done these sessions...

...but I think my best dragons, so far, have been on paper.

Not this one. This next one was an experiment in a much more loose style than I tend to use. 

Truly - holding la pluma very loosely... and see what happens. 

So, going back to something more in the style of how I tend to work...but staying with the whole Bilbo and Smaug thing that came out of the first one...

Beyond the whole Hobbit thing, I've been toying around with an idea for a future Human Canvas session.

...One which will incorporate a dragon, a castle...PROBABLY some subtle theatre masks thrown in...and DEFINITELY Marvin the Martian. 


I'm not so proud of this first one, but I'm trying to include some of the IDEA sketches - no matter how rough.

Oh yeah. Finally. One with Marvin.

I JUSsssssst gave this to the person who inspired it.

What really struck me, besides noticing that they ALL faced left...

 ...is how SIMILAR some of them turned out.

Drawn several days apart...without referencing the other(s). These next two are the most glaring examples.

Hell, even when I departed from dragons (for like - a day)... 

...Even THIS guy ended up looking' left.

Though, truth be told, 

this wasn't my concern at the time of this drawing. 

I remember simply wanting to incorporate more of the page.

So...

...Closing then with the same pic we opened with. 

The ONE dragon facing t'other way. 

Some day...SOME day...

...which way the dragon faces might actually matter. Meantime...just me noticing a few tendencies, once I realized there were enough of one certain type of drawing to warrant its own category.

And I'm SURE that whoever made this rug (again, from Arsah, in Istanbul...

...I'm sure they intended for SO much more than to have dragons sand fish strewn all over.

But at least I vacuumed.

But HEY!

Here's that all important message!

I think I'm JUST about to draw a dragon 

facing t'OTHER way!

Get ready Shaelyn.

This along with another celebrating 

you being the canvas getting the 100th drawing!

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The Human Canvas - Here Be Wolves

My tooth is really killing me right now...been in and out of a daze...but I gotta get this one done. With this one more post, with just one more day in the month, I will have July as the month of Human Canvas Sessions from Turkey. I unexpectedly was able to do 5.


While I had been doing the first four at Arsah, Musa - who works there - had been quietly witnessing these sessions, or the results OF them. Turns out...he wanted a wolf. I kind of expected something kind of easy...a profile of a wolf, howling at the moon. Something like what's pictured above.

But...

...He had an image in mind.

It was on his cell phone...

...which kept disappearing after 15 seconds, due to the screen saver.

I sketched it out with a yellow highlighter to kind of get the general idea...

...and went from there.

This is where it became handy to have NOT had a black pen during the last session...

...but having hung onto the one we were able to find...

...giving me a couple different shades of black to play with.

And since Musa wanted THIS image of a wolf...

This allows me to do the whole howling at the moon, wolf-profile image on someone else...

...'cause at this point, I only have one more session to publish...

Before having run out of smiling participants.

Thank you Musa.

And to all at Arsah: Whether you work there, own the place, or just happen to have stopped in while being a tourist during late April - and let a complete stranger draw on you...

Thank You.

The Human Canvas - Smaugy in Istanbul

Istanbul...Arsah - again, THE place to go if you're in the area. For me, among other things, it was also a great place to draw on people. I really didn't think I'd be doing any Human Canvas sessions while in Turkey...but one night, I ended up doing three.

Meet Mehmet.

The previous two pices that night - a Sun on Ha and a whirling dervish on Heena - were by request. Mehmet didn't really care...he just wanted to be a part of the experience.

So...I relied on something familiar...

...while trying to incorporate things I'd learned on other drawings.

So...once again...

Here be Dragons!

Some detail...

...and a background...

...And there we are.

Now...here are all three from that night:

Left to Right - Heena, Ha, and Mehmet.

Thanks to the three of you...

...And thanks to Mehmet AND Huseyin - for allowing me to do this in their store. As well as the next two...done a day or two later.

Please check back. And for the beginings of these adventures, click on the tabs near the top of the page for "The Human Canvas - the begining" and "The Human Canvas II - 2011".