Polymorphous Perversity

I got a book of postcards you're supposed to draw on - made by the "642 Things to Draw" people (there are only 30 things in each book, but usually multiples on each page, like '85 coffee beans').

I've been trying it out but it really is best just for drawing - plain cardstock, and horrible to paint on as watercolours don't stick well or get absorbed. Gouache is marginally better and copic markers work fine, as do all sorts of ink. One trick I found is to prep the card with copic marker, then paint on that.

I plan to use the cards for Inktober so as to limit myself and keep from getting overwhelmed by lots of larger artworks. I got a couple of the books, so I'm playing with one, trying it out. And being me, I've made it as difficult as possible so I'm doing painting, no matter the problems, and making the cards into a Stargate Atlantis theme, in which John and Rodney are in a dystopian AU battling the Trust.

It's very silly, will interest no one but me, and I have so many other deadlines I need to meet that I'll only work on the cards very intermittently. But from time to time I'll post a few, and here are the first four. With each card, the challenge for me is to draw and paint the prompt written on the card while somehow making it fit my overarching dystopian AU SGA theme. Ha.

Thumbnails go to the full-sized cards.