More Poodle Doodles

 

 

I finished another page of poodle doodles based on the great works of the glorious Lothar Meggendorfer, which can be found here:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Pudel

Or here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8027317959?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Actually the one with the big one with the pom pom on its tail on the right is from a different source on Wikimedia Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poodle_(PSF).png

I'm sick of drawing poodles, now I'm going to take a break and draw buildings and brontosauruses and other elements that I want to brush up on for my children's book.

Poodle Doodles

 

Here are some poodle doodles I've done recently.  I've been sketching poodles cause I'm working on a children's book that has poodles in it, so I want to get better at drawing them.

Its harder than you might think to find good pictures of poodles with classic haircuts.  These are based on the ones in a German story illustrated by Lothar Meggendorfer called Der Pudel.  If you're interested you can read it for free and in color here:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Pudel

Its also included in a collection of short stories with the same illustrator which is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8027317959?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

It is a fascinating collection of stories although the pictures are low resolution to the point of being very pixelated and it is all in black and white.  I enjoyed looking at them very much even though I do not speak German so of course it is all unintelligible.

Anyway I'll try and keep you posted as I make further progress on my children's book.

January 2020 Update

Well its the roaring '20s again!  That era of tough men, hot women, and roaring tommy guns!

Or something, I dunno...


December

I'm still working on the children's book with the brontosaurus.  I've got a name for him now.  His name is Herbert.  So now it is the story of Herbert the brontosaurus.

I also started yet another tumblr, this one is for children's books:

https://sit-he-oo.tumblr.com/

I'm having a lot of fun with it.  And, just for grins, here is a link to a post on there where I review a couple of books I got for Christmas:

https://sit-he-oo.tumblr.com/post/189872052840/new-books-i-got-for-christmas-the-foxbury-force#notes

Christmas was good.  I give it five stars, (or one big one).

January

I'm not promising to do more art in 2020, (except for Inktober), but I will do about as much, and hopefully more of it will be in color (again, except for Inktober).  My goal for January is to find a place that will print my outline drawings on watercolor paper so I can color them without losing the original and also worrying about messing it up.  This will also be important when I get around to illustrating the stories I have written.

Last month I said my goal for the new year was to set myself a writing goal as well as an art goal every month of the year, so this month's goal is, one thousand words of short fiction, and to finish one illustration, in addition to ongoing work on Herbert the Brontosaur.

February

I'd better see how this month pans out and leave February blank until I get there.

New Tumblr

I have a new tumblr, its for children's books!  I'll leave a link here in case anyone's interested:

https://sit-he-oo.tumblr.com/

I think this one is going to be very rewarding and a lot of fun.  :)

November Update

Inktober:

Last month was Inktober and I only got four out of thirty-one drawings done, which you can find in my last article:

Inktober 2019!

Which isn't great but at least they're all reasonable quality, and I think I'll do a bunch of sketching and doodling and do a lot better next year.


NaNoWriMo:

This month I'm writing a story about a Gravedigger, and how he lives in the graveyard and every time undead rise up out of their graves he has to kill them with his magic shovel and put them to rest again.  He gradually amasses a band of street urchins, living statues and ghosts, who then set out to save the city from the street gangs and Imperials vying for power in the slums and the reptilian creatures that infest the sewers in a post apocalyptic empire.

The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write 50,000 words so I won't have time for much else this month, but I'll tell you all about it in December.


December:

Well December of course is Christmas, and you might think that would be enough of a challenge for one month.  In addition, I will also have the rough draft to a 50,000 word novel, to contend with.  However, I'm also going to spend some time working on a children's book.  My sister and I came up with a really grand idea for one a couple of months ago and I think it will be great hilarious.  It features a brontosaurus and his mishaps involving a whole lot of poodles.  I think it will be a lot of fun to work on, and of course to read and I expect to get it done in about a year, which is way less time than any of my other projects are projected to take at this point.