I continue to carve out the Teenage Beast story in my sketchbooks. In this case, I am finishing up a 7-inch by 10-inch Canson XL Mixed Media pad. I pencil in my characters and then ink them in with my Sailor Fude De Mannen fountain pen which is quickly becoming my absolute favorite pen.
In this scene, my main character is turning into his more beastly persona as he goes against the flow of a mosh pit at the local punk club. Mosh pits usually swirl in a counter-clockwise direction. The Beast decides to mosh to the beat of his own drummer and travels in a clockwise direction sending punks flying to wind up in broken and bloodied heaps across the dance floor.
“Dude?! What the F…!”
The punks don’t take well to this and a fight ensues which doesn’t end well for the punks. Pain, death, horror! Aaaaaghh! CRUNCH!
They should have stuck to New Wave, I guess.
Being that I have been drawing for as long as I can remember, you think I would know better than to draw while drinking coffee during allergy season. A sip of coffee and a sneeze turned my pen and ink piece into a mixed media work. Yes, the sepia splotches were not intended although it sort of adds to the punk aesthetic. I could drench the rest of the page with a cup of coffee, but I may start all over again with a variation on this one. Fortunately, I was using waterproof ink.
This is a rough as are a lot of these sketches, and there are things I still want to work out. I have to work up the geography of the room and the flow of the punks a little better. In this sketch, I started with my monster and fit in the other guys where I could. Most all of this was drawn while seated on a couch with a cat and a spouse except for when I sneezed the coffee at the breakfast table.
Tweaking the character’s ‘traits’ has some interesting effects doesn’t it?
Yeah, he’s sort of hulking out, and the set of his mouth is based on our cat.