Astanael

Author: Asta

  • Roaming Ghoul

    “It was not any mere artist’s interpretation that we saw; it was pandemonium itself, crystal clear in stark objectivity. That was it, by heaven! The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all—he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well-established horror-world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. God knows what that world can have been, or where he ever glimpsed the blasphemous shapes that loped and trotted and crawled through it; but whatever the baffling source of his images, one thing was plain. Pickman was in every sense—in conception and in execution—a thorough, painstaking, and almost scientific realist.”

    – Pickman’s Model, H.P.Lovecraft

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook / Commission for Paul Baldowski

  • Sketchbook shy finish

    Time is fleeting, still drawing,
    Finished another sketchbook,
    With a naked lady showering
    But she won’t let you look !

    ink brush on A6 sketchbook, with my faithful tools:
    – Paperblanks A6 sketchbooks that I like a lot,
    – Pentel Ink brush
    – Bic 0.7 criterium pencil
    – Staedtler “Mars plastic” rubber

  • Sketchbook shy finish

    Time is fleeting, still drawing,
    Finished another sketchbook,
    With a naked lady showering
    But she won’t let you look !

    ink brush on A6 sketchbook, with my faithful tools:
    – Paperblanks A6 sketchbooks that I like a lot,
    – Pentel Ink brush
    – Bic 0.7 criterium pencil
    – Staedtler “Mars plastic” rubber

  • Ink Tree

    Nutrients flowing under the bark
    Minerals broken down in the dark
    Performed underneath the tree
    the miracle of Alchemy !

    Ink brush on A6 sketchbook

  • Slayer’s Tom Araya

    I’m more a Metallica fan if I had to chose one of the big four.
    But I like Tom’s look and.. dunno… feels like doing a portrait.
    A very hard challenge for me for I can’t usually remember faces.

    Ink brush on A6 sketchbook

  • Racinet Distortion

    Attempted to draw Celtic knot, Racinet style. I’m not very good at euclidean patterns…

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook

  • Catrina

    La Catrina en los huesos pero con sombrero francés con sus plumas de avestruz.

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook

  • Just a maid, ep 22: Give it back!

    – Take that! and that!
    *muffled cawing and wood slicing noises*
    – That letter is not for you!

    Pencil Doodle on A6 sketchbook for Just a Maid, a story about Martha, maid in a strange house

  • Sentient rocks

    There was once a magician and a druid, crossing the mountains of Everwhite.
    They carried with them some fine kegs of dwarven ale, of which they drank profusely. Utterly and completely drunk, they started showing off each other their magic prowess. Stuttered arcane spells and misnamed Mother Nature’s cantrips mixed together nicely, and thus the Sentients Rocks were created. Once sober, ashamed of what they did, the two magic users left the place and never returned.

    The rocks just stood there, quite confused. They rarely if ever talks, looking at you with candid eyes.

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook  

  • Mushroom guy

    After turning to the right before the chasm and following for a while the tunnel with the greenish moss on it, you enter a cave lighted by luminous fungus growing on the walls. Initially startled by your sudden arrival, a strange looking fellow wearing a hat in the shape of a giant mushroom. You talk with him for a while and he explain to you he lives here and made a living selling his production. Sadly, he don’t know about the amulet of Yendor nor the location of the entrance to the Gehemon as he rarely leave his cave and fears sunlight.

    Before you take your leave, he offers to sell you some mushrooms. He have meal made from mushrooms, luminescent mushroom to light the way and even poisonous ones.

    – If you buy a luminous mushroom for 10 gp, type “Light”
    – If you buy a poisonous mushroom for 5 gp, type “Poison”
    – If you buy a Mushroom Delicacy meal for 2 gp, type “Small Meal”
    – If you buy a Mushroom Extravaganza meal for 20 gp, type “Big Meal”
    – If you leave without buying anything, type “Leave”
    – If you draw your sword and attack the poor fellow, type “Bully”

    Pencil doodle on A6 sketchbook