Inktober 2019 3: More Super Teens (and some adult supervision)

      Hello. It is Friday and I have remembered to post some more Inktober on here so let's-a-go:

I swung back around to the Super Teens, except these aren't the Super Teens you are used to. Only one character here has a name at this present time so bear with me. Most of these are about a year old and I haven't done much developing so... Anyways, guy number one is a Danish teen that struggles to keep his pyrokinetic powers under control so he resorts to wearing gloves and long sleeves no matter the season. Girl number one is sporting like the best hand I have drawn so far in the month and is a Norwegian girl of Iraqi descent and a devout Muslim. She can shoot strong energy blasts from her hands Captain Marvel style. You can be thankful that she's pretty friendly and mild mannered so that only happens when she's really provoked or you're just a terrible person. Guy number two was a vague concept until four days ago when I drew him. He is a Swedish lad is a skater boy who happens to be a speedster. He probably also likes surfing. Girl number two has been the most developed out of the foursome... Oops. She is a Finnish punk who dyes her hair purple and will punch whoever messes with her friends to the moon. Well, not the moon but she has super strength so they will definitely be feeling that punch for a good week. She's also nearly invulnerable in case you were wondering. I don't remember if I had also made her a vegan ace. Anyway, to finish off this set, I drew Wilhelm Barr's mom Inga Schmidt. His parents got divorced when he was twelve due to irreconcilable differences and Inga remarried quickly after that. Wilhelm is still scarred from that. Anywho, Inga is an intelligent woman that has difficulty showing emotion to anyone. (Think Spock in a skirt) She believed her son needed to take advantage of his genius intellect while her ex husband Günther just wanted him to have a childhood. They always had problems in their marriage but that was the start of the end. Inga got just what she wanted when she married Lars Schmidt, who just so happened to be rich. Now she dotes on her young daughter Katrin while Wilhelm is away in New York. For the record, she's in Germany. 

I just started a new set of characters last night so it will be a while before I post again so till next doodle, toodles. 

Inktober 2019 2: the guys in Project:Reclaim Earth aren't alone either

      Hello. I forgot to post this on Monday so here it is today:

Ok, so the first two are work partners. They are Brazilian counterparts to Ryo Takahashi and Kenta Hayashi respectively. Neither one has a name yet even though I created them two years ago but that's a regular problem with me. Besides, it's hard for me to pick out Portuguese names I like because they're just Hispanic names I'm used to but with funnier spelling, and having American bred and born, I'm not a big fan of a lot of Hispanic names. So, back to the characters: both are biracial but in different ways. The dude is Japanese on his dad's side and descended from Portuguese on his mom's. The girl is what we Hispanics call "mulatta", a term meaning a biracial black woman. Idk what Brazilians call it, maybe someone will let me know someday. So the dude is holding a martini in his hand. My sister came up with that, I almost drew him with a margarita. Shaken and not stirred? I don't know, I drink alcohol when the planets align so I can't say what his preference in that department. I can definitely can say that it depends on his mood that day. His friend/co-worker is a good girl, staying away from the bar and spending time with her, uh, Pomeranian. Being a young, single, very pretty, independent woman is tough enough, she could use a loyal friend with no self-interest whatsoever for some added protection. Then I decided to draw this alien creature I created two years ago that happens to look like a wolf but is the size of a horse so you can ride it. I need to work on details with it but there it is. Then I drew Kenta's mom Masumi Hayashi. She's an interesting case. She claims that alien life exists in the universe because she had a very close encounter with one, so close that she had a son. A divorced woman birthing a blond boy is one thing, but it is a completely different thing when said woman is Japanese. Funny story is nobody believes her story, not even her own son. Her widowed mother was supportive of Masumi and Kenta but she died while Kenta was in college and that was when it happened: while Kenta was at school, his mother was taken to a mental hospital against her will for declaring to her neighbors that aliens were real. As much as Kenta doesn't like talking about it (mental illness is a stigma in Japan), he's still a good boy and visits his mother when he can and plans to eventually get her out. And then, when I planned on drawing another human, I decided last minute to change it up and draw another alien. This is a Gempei and they are basically owl cats with some lizard details. That's right. They are a quadrupedal creature that is quite bird-like but has a fleshy, scaly tail... And they can disguise themselves as an Earth cat. There are no tentacles in that beak, it's ok. They are also quite smart and trainable, just make sure you don't lock them out of the bathroom when they need to go. They will use the garbage disposal. 

Ok, so I originally planned on going in chronological story order which is Bittersweet, Super Teens, then Project:Reclaim Earth, but I was having trouble figuring out who and in what order I would draw from Super Teens so I went ahead and skipped it. I'm currently finishing that set up and wondering how I'm going to finish the month. I should be posting that on Friday (hopefully), but until the next time I show up with a doodle, toodles.

Inktober 2019 1: You mean there's more to Bittersweet than Mike and Sandra?

      Hello. I wasn't sure if I was really gonna do Inktober this year but if you read the title, then you know that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm doing kinda like last year where I dropped the prompts and focused on my OCs but this year I'm drawing them in the manga style they originated in and not in my stylized realism as portraits so let's go:

Day one I started with a QUEEN (and someone's grandma) I like to call Ari O'Hara. She is a strong Jewish woman who don't need no man, something she picked up thanks to having been born in Denmark prior to 1940 and surviving the Nazi occupation. Ari escaped thanks to the Danish resistance and landed far away from her homeland. She has managed to thrive despite going through so many hardships but now happens to be a bit protective of her only son. Day two was a young Eoghan Byrnes about 21 years old before his left eyebrow scar and broken nose but that's what happens when you join the military, right? His family managed to escape Ireland during the potato famine and found themselves in a place where they would never have to worry about the poverty or political troubles in their homeland anymore. The Byrnes still carried the concept of joining the armed forces for the benefits up until Eoghan's generation. He joined and made a career of it, became known as Chancin' Byrnes... but there were negative events in his personal life and he found himself the only member of his family. He still has his job and his daggers, in case you were wondering. By day three I was getting tired of drawing full body poses and fantastical time-periody clothing so I took a break by drawing Mike's parents, the OG Morgans. First I drew his mom Wendy circa her college days. Don't ask me what she studied because as soon as she came across her future husband, she decided to take it easy and he was the sole breadwinner in their marriage, even if it was the 70's. Wendy suffered so many miscarriages that she refers to Mike, her only child, as her "miracle baby Michael". Would she have preferred that he stayed close to home in Chicago? Absolutely, but she wants him to live his life too. And then there's Richard Morgan, Mike's dad and Wendy's husband. He was a popular guy in high school and college... Popular with the girls at least, not knowing the meaning of the words "loyalty" and "chastity" until he met Wendy (we hope). His ancestors would have been supremely disappointed in him but at least he turned out to be a good dad. This is during his college days so he don't look like that no more. After him is Ethan O'Hara. Oh, you heard the name before? Yeah, his mom is Ari. He grew up sheltered thanks to his mother's protective measures and he wants very much to live up to his family's reputation and expectations but also to be his own person. That last part doesn't always come so easily, especially when his decisions complicate everything. And last but not least is Helena. She has an identical twin named Juliana and they come from a very mixed background of French, Japanese, possible Chinese... Doing a DNA test on them would really be something. She and Ethan become a power couple and mix up their genes again for the next generation. Isn't that something?

I'm currently on day eleven in my Inktober so I think Monday I will be posting another batch for you to enjoy. I would have done this on Wednesday but I hit my internet limit on the home WiFi when I started the draft so here it is today, which is fine, at least I'm remembering to update. So anyway, I hope you enjoy your weekend and till next doodle, toodles!

It's Raining (Spider) Men

      Hello. Turns out I didn't need to buy a new USB cable for my phone, I already a new one that I wasn't using. Also, it might have something to do with the port I was using on my laptop. I dunno, it's a possibility that happens sometimes with Windows 10. Anyway:

Yes, I was going through a mini-Spidey phase in late summer. No, I have not seen Far From Home. I intended to watch it and then my grandpa died. Stuff happens. So first Spidey is actually Cobweb's son in the future. I wonder if he counts as my second spidersona. He does go by the superhero name Spider-man cuz he firmly believes that Cobweb is his mom's gig. His name is Frankie btw. Anybody wanna guess who his dad is? Anybody? Moving on... With the whole upset of Sony and Disney breaking up and Sony taking Spider-man with them (I actually side with Sony because Disney the past few years has just been absolutely GREEDY), I was inspired to draw a comic. Except I started it digitally and then I had an issue with the pen pressure AGAIN so I just drew the third panel on an index card and left an air of mystery. I did say "And then Venom travels the portal to the other side and terrorizes a couple of Disney bigwigs" giving you an idea of what would happen next if I continued. 

Anybody remember I said I started a YouTube channel? Well YouTube is giving me issues with my third video because it features a Blondie song and it has a strong copyright in the States (where I have lived my whole life), Australia and New Zealand. The video I produced is blocked in my country. So I thought I could find a loophole but nope, they insist. I am considering making an IGTV just so that I can share that video because why else would I go through the trouble of recording a couple of hours of me drawing and then edit it to a few minutes and add music? I'm not doing it for my health - well ok, maybe my mental health. I do have another speedpaint lined up and I want to do a couple of up-to-date videos as well so look out for that (hopefully I won't mind editing them... I am getting better at it and fancier, which would have been evident in my third video if you could watch it). Another hassle I'm dealing with: my dad hasn't been working because he hurt his shoulder real bad and he is under the impression that limiting our internet time will make us the human beings he wants us to be. No it won't because we're too stubborn... But so is he. Anybody wanna help my campaign of getting out of this house of torture? 

Well, till I suddenly produce another doodle, toodles.

Webbed Up Weekend

      Hello again. I actually have two doodles I did on paper that I wanna post here but the pictures are on my phone and I can't back up my phone because my charging cables have all been wrecked to some degree and won't let me back up to my laptop (or my hard drive which is connected to it right now) so guess I gotta post this all by itself:

It's my spidersona Cobweb in her natural element - a web where she has caught her objects of desire, Eddie Brock and Peter B. Parker. I thought I'd make it as a new banner for my Tumblr since my Loki and Hans one is pretty much outdated. This is also the banner for my new YouTube channel (just uploaded video number three WHICH IS BLOCKED FOR SOME PEOPLE (I'm sorry but the Blondie song is the inspiration for the drawing, makes no sense to use another one. You could always cheat by using American YouTube), I'll do videos on my old inktobers once I get video number four done) if you wanna check that out. I had fun drawing these guys again, although Venom was probably the most fun. I need to buy a new usb cable for my phone to back it up to make the next post... I also need to draw something. Whoops. Well, hope you have a nice weekend and till next doodle, toodles!

This post's catchy title was stolen

      Hello, forgive me for forgetting to update in August... For anyone that cares, that is. Well, it's not that I stopped doodling completely (maybe... there was a lot of simming spent), it's just that I was basically living at my grandma's, like you do when your grandpa dies. Anyway, here's some stuff I drew during July (that crazy month) and early August. This paragraph will no longer have parentheses: 

It's a hodgepodge of stuff, mostly OCs but there is that draw this in your style I mentioned in July's post. So first off, I hopped onto the Area 51 meme train with Kenta. Did I mention his story features aliens? That's why I chose him for the meme. His Instagram caption is: Not everything that happens in Nevada stays in Nevada. Middle is the draw this in your style I mentioned last post back in July... If only I could forget July... Like I mentioned earlier, I was basically living with my grandma so I didn't have access to my sister's drawing tablet so I did this on an index card and used my watercolor pencils and my water brush (and this picture doesn't show it, how stupid of me). No clue if she posted me in her story because I didn't check but it was fun. Last is me finally get an OC out of my head after he has inhabited it on-and-off. What I can tell you is that he currently has no name, just options for his first name, he's Japanese-Brazilian (gotta look up the proper term for that if there is one), his job is quite like Kenta's, his work partner is a mulatta girl with awesomely curly hair, he's a carefree playboy and most likely wants to be your friend... or your lover. Depends what mood you catch him in. 

I started an official YouTube channel where there are currently two (2) old speedpaints (currently in the process of editing a third) so if anybody wants to check that out, it's michdoodles. Plain and simple. I see my Brady bunch meme has become popular again. *SIGH* i knew as soon as I saw ESPN was one of the traffic sources. Why ESPN allows access to that cringy meme of mine I do not know but my blog still getting views while I'm not active on it? Guess I'll accept it. Till next post because I have like three more doodles i wanna post here before I make more art, toodles.

10 Bittersweet Years

      Hello. I know I disappeared again but this time it was because of something serious, but first, doodle:

I drew Sandra! I actually started sketching her in a new sketchbook (that one of my former co-workers gifted me) in late June at a baby shower but finished her July 3rd because this month this OC of mine turns 10. To think that reading collections of 60's era Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Supergirl comics ten summers ago would inspire me to create a new character that would last this long considering how prone I am to obsessive phases and that I've actually created lots of characters over the years that just never had a continuous existence in my imagination like she and her story (both of which have gone through changes over the years) have. I'm actually working on her story as of lately, I'm just slow going.

The sad thing is, I finished and posted this drawing on my Instagram and Tumblr while my grandpa was in the hospital. He ended up dying on the seventh. He was the only grandpa I had ever had really (long story) so losing him so fast and so sudden has pretty much wrecked this month for my whole family. Out of the three of us most involved with him in his last days, I have actually been handling it the best oddly enough but I have my moments. I haven't been doing much in the way of doodling though, it's mostly been shutting out the rest of the world by playing sims. I also have a couple other doodles and I sketched a draw this in your style by Pernille Ørum today that will hopefully get some coloring soon so I can post it on Instagram. I quite like the skecth, I hope I don't screw it up with the colored pencils. Well, hope to see you soon.