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TH0190 – Some blank figures I was drawing while tabling. Artists go through a lot of phases of what they doodle to warm up or relax, I find. There used to be a time where drawing for fun, or not for a project seemed impossible, but I have to give Terminal Hair credit for sort of shaking that up and giving “little figures in dumb poses” a chance to colonize that space for me.

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TH0185 – It’s kind of hard to tell with how I processed the scan, but I did these in black crayon (Staedtler Wax Twister, to be precise). I was struggling to draw the cover of Paleolithic in ink, all while imitating the textured line of pigment on stone wall + 30,000 years of aging. It looked a heck of a lot like crayon, though. It took me three pages of drawing my usual way to realize… I could just draw it in crayon and then I wouldn’t have to simulate any effects… because it would make the effects…

So in honor of that really painfully obvious observation, I draw cavemen doodles in Paleolithic books using crayon.

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TH0175

TH0175 – Just some blanks to practice various muscle groups. Been thinking about the natural diversity of people’s musculature lately.

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TH0170 – Someone who ordered a Terminal Hair book said they were a big fan of jockstraps, so I wanted to ensure that his book had a good jockstrap drawing in it when it arrived. Just took a couple of iterations to figure out what face to go with. And you know what? Now I can’t remember what I chose!

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TH0165

TH0165 – A big ol’ butt. Ink with no underdrawing again. What I find liberating about chunky inking pens is, that a lifelong ligne claire artist, it forces me into considering spot black a lot more than I usually do. Sometimes it even works.

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TH0160

TH0160 – Roughing out the sketch for a Patreon postcard. The finished one lacked a lot of the life from these studies, but they both have their charms. Wilfrith the werewolf from elsewhere.