Sluice gates II (Patreon)

Up to around 2015 I was a lot more active doing wallpapers, what I would term "pop culture sketches", little cast lineups, the Bad Machinery halloween costumes. I've got folders full of these more finished "sketchbook" drawings. As my workload got heavier and heavier, I pretty much stopped making them. I found a "misc drawings" folder on my backup drive today and these were my favourites from about a hundred which ranged from dashed-off jokes for friends to more finished pieces.

Most of these were drawn on the computer but a few are from the period where I had built up some skill with the pencil and could do a nice drawing on paper in a "second style" that had a real charm. Unfortunately, this ability has now all but vanished.