Hanging Hermit Turkopus

 A Hermit Turkopus is a creature that appropriates discarded machine parts and other rubbish left by more sentient beings to give itself a protective covering.

 
2B pencil on 3 by 5inch post-it-note

Ball Critter

Started sketching this out and then halfway through realised I'd been influenced by an article I read the night before about the Pokemon cartoons.

2B pencil on 3 by 5inch post-it-note (a surprisingly decent sketching surface)

Office worker contemplates the destruction of himself and the alien horde

When the office worker was sketched out he looked a bit like a short, round Steve Buscemi but the slight resemblance got lost when he got shaded in.

Pencil on A5 paper

Alien Pilot (colour version)

This is a colour version of a pencil drawing I did back in 2010 ( link here : Alien Pilot Inspects His Ship )
I started this a bit before the image in the previous post (Eye Floating In A Gas Mask) so it doesn't use the digital painting style that was used in that other image.

Eye Floating In A Gas Mask

All my previous digital colour pictures have been created by tinting black and white artwork (pencil or pen & ink), sometimes adding digital 'paint' over the top to augment the picture. This is my first picture that is 'painted' digitally from scratch. There is still a pen & ink drawing underneath but except for a few stray pixels around the edges (and the signature) it is completely obscured by the colour on top.

The gas mask in the image is inspired by an exhibit of a WWII era gas mask in the Winston Churchill's Britain At War Experience (Tooley St. London). The single floating eye is well.. a motif I use often.

Worried Hand Puppet

I'm not sure why I drew this image. I started with the hand puppet and it spiralled into surreal territory.
Maybe the figure is a close relative of the screaming Madonna I drew a while ago?

HB & 6B pencil on A6 paper

Happy Monster Couple

From the very first moment he met her, he was transfixed by her single, languid eye. She was attracted to his short stature and large, silky-smooth eye lens coverings. Even though he finds it tickles too much, he lets her slowly drag her wet suckers across his eye lens coverings because it relaxes her so. She puts up with the fact he wears a shirt and tie even on the weekends. In return, he doesn’t bemoan the fact that she has to go on solitary egg-laying missions every three hundred and three years.

They are the perfect happy monster couple 

Pencil on paper 11x11cm