Sketching and drawing

I used to enjoy sketching and drawing, but now I only do it because I must. I’m not sure when I stopped, but I used to sketch monsters and creatures and spaceships, and they’d occasionally be published in gaming fanzines.

I was never any good at figures or faces (or real stuff generally). Instead, they were mostly things to support my gaming habit—Cthulhoid monsters and the like.

Most are pen and ink. Here’s a selection:

A shoggoth, underwater.

A thing (a shoggoth?) in a fishbowl. I always liked this one.

A map—presumably for a game scenario, probably Call of Cthulhu. I have no recollection of Littleford—I can’t remember which game this was for. I wonder what was significant here - the empty house? The recluse? Or the only named property, Joseph Morris? I used to enjoy drawing maps.

A spaceship of some sort.

A Type-S Scout (from Traveller) menaced by a giant space jellyfish. Look at all those dots! No wonder I'm short-sighted!

An alien—pen and ink, copied and then watercoloured.

Modern art

These days, my art is pretty much confined to items for Freeform Games. That means I end up drawings guns, or jewellery or other mundane items. While I find them a bit of a faff to do, I enjoy the process more than I think I will.

So this is the sort of thing I draw these days.

A lucky rabbit’s paw.

A book with a hidden compartment.

A sample case.

A teabag. I think that's the most mundane thing I've drawn.

A box of matches.

A pistol. I've drawn quite a few guns over the years.