I came, I SAW

Friday evening I attended the Sequential Artists Workshop Free Friday Night Workshop. It's sort of a short lesson-cum-jam session with different guest artist/instructor(s) each week, There's prompt, and the instructors walk through it, and everyone participates  making their own, and there's sharing at the end - sort of like a writing group, I guess.

The prompt was to illustrate a symbol of bad luck, a symbol of good luck, a personal good luck charm, and an item or method to curse someone else with bad luck. This exercise wasn't particularly sequential, but focused on drawing, so I tried some different approaches.

So, here we go:

For a symbol of bad luck, a ladder, as in don't walk under:

 

Pencil roughs and nib pen finish

 

 

For a symbol of good luck, Noah (I was tempted to do Russell Crowe) and that bird that came back to say there was land somewhere:

 

Pencil roughs, fine line marker, and brush pen

 

For a good luck charm, a waving Chinese cat statue, something I have actually owned:

Pencil roughs and felt-tip marker

And finally, for a curse, the malocchio fingers:

Fat pencil

I did them all on one sketch sheet so at least it looks like a comic if you squint:

All in all, not a bad event. I think I'll keep dropping in.