FAO @oddthisday.bsky.social Looking for something to draw, I remembered your post the other day.

Since it’s his birthday today, I thought I’d have a go at David Lynch.

I got a larger pack of charcoals, with more colours, and wanted to try using a bright colour paper. I think it’s worked out nicely.

Frogs together strong. Inspired by events in Portland.

Watched The Monkey the other day, a dark comedy horror about an evil mechanical monkey. Very good of you like Final Destination style stuff. 🐵 🥁

A while back, I came up with the idea for a series of 8 drawings I wanted to do and excitedly went straight into the first one… then stopped. Tonight, I thought I’d continue, and bashed out the second. I just finished, and noticed the dates. Two down, six to go, expect the complete set by 2037.

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you #artshare

This was meant to be a Christmas present, but I was ill and only got round to doing it last week. As they’ve now got it in the mail, I can post it here - My dad and his wife as gnomes (which she loves).

Right, let’s bring everything up to date. A couple of weeks ago, I drew this thing for my daughter. If you play Fortnite, you know what this little guy is.

Forgot to post this a while back. It was my nephew’s birthday and he’s a big fan of Fallout, so I turned him into the Sole Survivor. I knocked it out in an evening, but wish I’d had more time, it doesn’t feel right and I don’t quite know why. - 100724

Tested out my new fountain pen, but still not brave enough to commit to using watercolours, it seems a lot of faff, so coloured this with markers. - 100524

In my ever widening search to explore different styles, I’ve bought a fancy fountain pen, a Platinum Carbon Desk Pen, along with some supposedly waterproof Carbon Ink. The plan is to outline and then watercolour, we’ll see how that goes. - 230424

I’ve had an idea bouncing around for a while and finally decided to quickly try it out - Beatles badges. - 110424

I’ve quickly realised that people are more than happy to receive art as gifts. Here’s a portrait of my Dad that I did for his birthday. - 130324

A little eye doodle on my shopping list. - 280224

I had beans on toast for lunch yesterday, so I drew some. - 210224

I’m calling this done. I started it nearly two weeks ago but haven’t spent two weeks on it because at times it felt daunting, so I didn’t do anything. It would just sit there, mocking me. I enjoyed doing it, but I’m glad I’ve finished it. - 060224

I regret using a gold marker. It was a great idea in principle, but a bastard to work with. It kept flaking and going everywhere. - 060224

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The beginning of something I’ve been working on this the past few days. - 050224

Followed a tutorial to quick sketch buildings, then coloured them, first using alcohol markers, and then some shitty kid's watercolours I had kicking about. Quite enjoyed painting, so bought some semi-decent watercolours for future use. - 250124

Trying out a combination of markers and pencils back in December, to see how that all works, I drew my brother-in-law’s dog, Reginald. - 240124

Reposting because I took a better picture, daylight is much better than house lights at midnight. Anyway… Needed a new avatar for my new account. I quite like the picture I use on JimmerUK so thought I’d simply draw it, you know, this being my art account and everything. - 240124

Right. I thought I needed to get a bit more serious with the art thing, so have created a dedicated account, both here and on Instagram - instagram.com/jimmer.art/ Hopefully, it'll encourage me to do more stuff rather than just sit around, thinking about doing stuff. - 230124

Thought I’d try something a little different with that whole art thing. - 100124

Off the back of my Joker mask, I realised my white wasn’t doing the business, causing me a lot of issues. I googled for a decent white and Jesus Christ, the difference is night and day. Left is regular pencil with pressure, right is the new pencil with just three gentle layers. - 220124

I must have ‘finished’ this drawing five times before I finally declared it finished. I keep looking at it, thinking of little touch ups here and there, and adding and adding, but at some point, I have to walk away. Anyway, here’s a thing I did. - 180124

Liz Truss’s portrait now added to the No. 10 staircase. - 231223

I bought a rolly-up thing pencil case for my - as yet untouched - pencils, and have spent the last soothing five minutes putting them in. It’s too beautiful not to share. - 091023

Pissing about with different things on my new paper. I’m going to art so hard in the new year (after spending a lot of time watching you tube videos). - 211223

Niche tweet - a new pad has just arrived and the paper is exactly what I wanted. Very excited. - 201223

With Sunak in the spotlight today, I thought I’d have a go at an idea that’s been brewing for a while. Trying out different things on prints before I commit to the original. Still deciding what to go with. - 111223

I did another art. This time with alcohol markers and pencils. I’m really only doing this to justify all the different stuff I bought. I had a delivery today, “More pens?!” was the inevitable response. - 051223

Today, I have mostly been doing arts. I saw something in a coffee shop the other day and it inspired me to piss about with different things to get a feel for them and try some stuff, using the sprog’s face. Pencil, charcoal, pens, acrylics. - 291123

In my ongoing quest to rediscover my love of creating art from when I was 13, I’ve realised I’ve still got it… the skill of a 13 year old. I tried out some paint markers and I actually think this is not bad, considering. - 221023

The sprog and I are picking up a new hobby, making earrings and badges. We’re still in the prototyping stage. Here’s one we did today, sketch to finished product. - 161023

I’ve been thinking about picking up drawing recently, so bought a sketchbook… but now I don’t want to sully it, it’s too nice. - 021023

I originally used up one of my invite codes to reserve this name in case I ever needed to move over from the other place. Considering events, and me starting drawing again, I'm going to flood all my historical gumpf here for posterity, then will start posting again (hopefully). So, here we go...