Mastafran February Monthly Sketchbook

Posting these sketchbook sketches isn’t as prominent as I need to be since I’m busy with some bigger projects and shows. My business has been cranking up and I get worried if I’m overwhelming myself.

Art streaming has also made a return so catch me on Twitch live drawing sprites for Blackmask.

Progress on Blackmask is the same as it is though, I’m making boss sprites and I’m sure my programmer is waiting with bated breath to incorporate them.

Back at one of the conventions I was tabling, I drew exploration sketches of Wheatley the Bread Cat as a narrative idea. When I first drew Wheatley, I imagined him as a bread seller giving out free samples rolls. This sketch ended up lonesome with Wheatley getting ignored. My subconsciousness tends to draw for me sometimes. And yes, it’s a hat.

Art I did at the various conventions I’ve been to. Many of them at Polar Vortex as a small incentive to convince passerby’s to commission me to draw art for them, just so I have something to do with myself. I wonder if I need to rethink my purpose for doing commissions.

This dragon keeps showing up in my sketches and I badly want to drop my current stuff to jump on a different project to see what sticks.

Most of my work begins as character designs that look great to me. Beyond that I draw a blank of what kind of story or personality they have until bother to sit down and hash it out for the next hours and sometimes it can be like pulling teeth.

I don’t like asking others for writing advice because I’m sure it’s the same story circle want and need stuff from every other source I find. I know what to do and yet I never seem willing to do it.