Octopus in a Convertible

Hello everyone. Today I have a rough sketch I started a couple of weeks ago. I did this sketch in a little notepad, with lined paper so you will see the lines there, similar to the previous character sketches I've posted. It's an ongoing series you might say. It definitely helps me keep my sanity day to day, these drawings help me to feel like I'm still a creative person at heart.

Today we have an octopus driving a red convertible coupe. Most of the time he is couped up un a drab office, but today he has escaped, enjoying a drive in the country on a bright sunny day. Traffic seems light, and his outlook is positive.

I consider this to still be a rough draft, as it is on lined paper. For a finished piece I would transfer it to clean white paper, and then shade it, and colorize it in Photoshop. Which I might do, because I really like this drawing and character. He has the lighthearted look and feel that I enjoy so much. This character is one of the "film noir" characters that I've been drawing for a book concept I'm working on, but I haven't written the story yet, I just have an outline. So while I'm at work I doodle characters. Characters that show promise develope into main characters, the others will be background characters.

I worked a TON of overtime the last month, so I missed posting in October. I'm really enjoying doing shaded drawings with ballpoint pens. I started doing this about a year ago, because that is what I had on hand all day every day at work. Also, I took some liberties by adding a couple of teeth to our octopus. I also purposely put two legs on the back side, because I felt it was getting too busy.

I hope you enjoy this one. This rough drawing was done on a small lined paper notepad with a Bic Crystal ball point pen, a black one, and then they gave me a red one at work for checking paperwork I had varified. So I promptly used that to color our octopus's convertible. I hope you enjoyed this drawing and my comments on it. Feel free to leave a comment or send me a message. Thank you for stopping by, may God richly bless you.