6,500+ Followers on Instagram

 https://youtu.be/dwvRXUsdfjM

My Instagram feed, @monstergram7, has recently surpassed 6.5k followers. To mark this milestone, I present this stop-motion video of me creating a little piece of art to commemorate the achievement. The featured quintet is Little Tuffy and the Tuf Gurlz.

From left to right: Cat, Monica, Little Tuffy, Barbara and Maui-Anne. These thrill seeking surf girls appear in supplemental comics within my self-published comic book Unstoppable Tuff-Girl.

 

6,500 thank yous to everyone following my Instagram. 

Bonus: pictures of my quite low-tech film set up for my stop-motion drawing demonstration.

Like a bridge, a yard stick is suspended about 20cm (about 8 in.) over the drawing surface between two book easels. At the top is an LED portable light to help fill the room’s overhead lighting.

My cel phone/digital camera strapped to the yard stick with a simple rubber band. Ready to film the drawing process.

monstergram7 Hits 5,000 Followers on Instagram

The apparent math here is that the more I draw and share on Instagram, then the more followers I get. I’m sure that there are other factors involved, but other than my winter, spring and summer sessions of What Shall I Draw Today?, that’s all I do.

About two-weeks ago, my Instagram feed, @monstergram7, surpassed the 5,000 followers milestone. In honor of the event, and it being a nice round number, I video recorded a three-part drawing demonstration of the above Supergirl art. If you’re curious of my process and have 36-minutes, then you can watch the magic happen at normal speed.

I recommend that you turn off the audio. I don’t speak during the videos and I’m probably breathing too close to the microphone.

Enjoy.

Watch me SKETCH!

https://youtu.be/qEsquQWWkxc

Watch me INK!

https://youtu.be/ZnfEq8hkObs

Watch me COLOR!

https://youtu.be/FEXlHwlcvqE

Christmas Pidgeon - 2018

https://youtu.be/Kc3gvUdQxoo

Here’s an “at speed” video of me sketching a Christmas Pidgeon to wish you a Merrie Chrsimas and a Happy New Year. The last personalized pigeon drawing of nearly 50 drawn in this season’s batch of holiday greetings. Thrill to see pregnant pauses as I decide whether or not to add a Santa hat and then deal with the consequences when confronted with no good place to place a nail.

I thought that YouTube might give me the option to turn off the sound - it didn’t, not that I could find. So, please excuse the unprofessional audio of humming and utterances.

monstergram7 Hits 3,800 Followers

Having quickly blown past the 3,500 Instagram followers milestone during the holidays, I take a few minutes in the less hectic January 2018 to celebrate 3,800 followers with a sketch of Hilary Rabbit. And I recorded the sketching process with a time-lapse video.

THANK YOU for following my Instagram feed and this blog, monotonae!

https://www.instagram.com/monstergram7/

Hilarity Rabbit (some times Hilarity Hare) is a character from my failed comic strip, Cartoon Mondays. Cartoon Mondays was supposed to scratch my cartoonist’s itch when I hired on at Cartoon Network’s marketing/ licensing group. The style inspiration was classic 1950-60’s Hanna Barbera, the Huckleberry Hound and Top Cat era.

I frequently miss the H&B mark by adding a lot of shading, a lot of details and a lot of hash marks. But that discrepancy sits well enough with me, since the drawings lack the benefit of animation.

This piece, I believe, represents the first time that I really had to assign color to Hilarity. So I went with Top Cat inspired yellow with, again, additional non- H&B details of shading and modeling. Obviously there’s something about Hilarity that appeals to me that she lives on past the short-lived comic strip in sketch books and doodles like this. Maybe she’ll hop in to something in my future work.

As seen on Instagram.

2,500 Followers on monstergram7

So, this happened recently.

Black ink and color pencil on Bristol Board.
17.8 cm x 12.7 cm (7.00 in. x 5.00 in.)

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monstergram7 hits 1000 Followers

Hey, my Instagram feed, @monstergram7, hit the milestone 1000 followers! Just like I had with the 250 followers milestone, I made and uploaded a time-lapse video of me drawing and inking a special commemorative piece of art.

Thanks everybody!

Thanks to Tony and Tom Bancroft for pushing the number of my followers from 250+ to 600+ overnight with a social media mention of my stuff.

Finished in color pencil.

Video set-up minus iPhone for the 2nd attempt.

I actually drew and shot the process three times. The first time I had done at 990+ followers and was fine, but the following day, I thought that I could do better.

The second time the video was recording at vertical aspect and plays at 90˚. Ugh.

The third and final time is what I’ve posted here.

In the photo above of my crude set-up, the pink thing in the middle is an iPhone holder/ tri-pod with its flexible legs wrapped around a camera trip-pod. What-ever works you know.
I apologize for the bands that resulted from the video interaction with the flickering of the available fluorescent lighting. Maybe next time I’ll solve for that.


Thanks again!

monstergram7 hits 250 Followers

Hey some time yesterday my Instagram feed, @monstergram7, hit the milestone of 250 followers! So  I decided to commemorate the event with this, my first uploaded video, a time-lapse of me drawing and inking a special piece of art.

Thanks everybody!

Although not a high number, relative to other Instagram feeds, it exceeds my modest goals for my feed to happen before its first anniversary. I, unfortunately, am not very regular with it. Okay, I’m not very good with the whole social media. If I did have a master plan, well, I’d probably have a proper web site for “Unstoppable Tuff-Girl.”