From the Sketchbook of Colin O'Donnell

If you've seen any of my blog, you've probably noticed that I do a lot of drawing in my posts. But you what you may not know is that I've actually been drawing my entire life! And I've collected it all; suddenly occurring thoughts, concept designs, and doodles while the teacher was talking, in one binder I like to call my "sketchbook" of sorts. What I've done here is pull selections from the binder and display them. Enjoy!

Drawing #1

This is one of several designs I had for a superhero I came up with named Cyberman. I'll save all the details for another day, but the basic story is that he's me, a few years in the future, and in a lab accident, I mentally bond with these little symbiotic robotic cells called technomorphs. Cyberman can control the technomorphs and shape them into any machine, and his suit.
Why this design looks so much like Sonic the Hedgehog, I have no idea. I didn't even notice it until someone pointed it out.

Drawing #2

Sweet saucy molasses I love this drawing of Super Sonic. I shall give myself and my enormously inflated ego a pat on the back.

Drawing #3

This is an unpublished Turtle Marathon cartoon from the original batch I made. I didn't actually make them originally for my site, but for my middle school newspaper. When I saw that the paper was continuously refraining from publishing my cartoons, in the place of which lay a horrendously underdrawn hippo in Microsoft Paint, I decided to color and repurpose the comics. I give you: the lost Turtle Marathon.

Drawing #4

This drawing stems from one of my deeper moments. Convinced I was a professional artist because I bought a calligraphy pen from an art supplies store, I went into a serious artistic imaginative state, which produced this. It's a running lion that becomes fire. Pretty deep, huh?

Drawing #5

This page was the genesis of Zach the Impossibility. It started out as just me making bored, random arcs with my pencil, and then I was like, whoa, wait a minute. The first drawing ever of Zach the Impossibility is in the top left of the picture. After that, I tried to imagine all the different possibilities for this new character, his facial expressions, what he'd look like from the side... I even made him an evil twin. The reason he's called an impossibility is because either those lines are his legs, or the outline of his head. He is literally a physical impossibility. The reason he's called Zach is because I thought the name sounded cool. I created him long before I met my friend Zachary.
...and I still haven't put him in my blog drawings! Dang! I've been meaning to do that!

Drawing #6

Oh man, I love this one. I call it "Ginormous Gastropod." It's a colossal slug. It's just so funny and weird, I think I'd have to say it's one of my faves.

Drawing #7

I don't have a lot to say about this drawing. I just think it looks really cool.

Drawing #8

This drawing started out much like Zach the Impossibility. I got bored and started making an arc back and forth on the page. Then I looked at it and realized I could make a pretty good head out of it. I think it came out well.

Drawing #9

Oh man, this takes me back. This is a design for a wrist computer I drew up when I was, what, seven years old? This was around the time when I realized I wanted to become an inventor. this is one of the first inventions I ever came up with. I just can't believe that Samsung and Apple beat me to it.

Drawing #10

Say, that Shadow the Hedgehog is almost as good as that Super Sonic drawing from earlier. Not bad, if I do say so myself.
He's even holding a Chaos Emerald.

Drawing #11

Check it. A battle between a modern teenage wizard and a classic staff-wielding wizard.
Seems like a good note on which to conclude this.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed this walk through my drawing career. I know I have.
And I've gotta remember to try to use Zach the Impossibility in one of my upcoming posts.