OTTOMATON

@ottobulut.bsky.social

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Artist of the cartoony sort. Aspiring writer/illustrator of kid lit. Currently deeply distracted by trying to live off-grid on a wet piece of earth. Http://www.ottobulut.com

Various sketches on gridded notebook paper of smiling aliens and giant teeth flying in front of a moon and cloud.
A vintage wood veneer two-sided library cart under a loft in a tiny house. Good lighting for reading!
Watercolor birthday card WIP with Mugato holding baloons
A downspout rerouted and suspended by a cord dripping water into the inverted broken top of a plastic water jug with a paint filter held in place with close pins—all funneling into black 60gallon drum.
An early concept drawing of the extraterrestrial by Ron Cobb on gridded paper. It is not cute like the final conception.
The first theft is not wages, but time—the poor are denied the hours required to think. - Conway Twitty
Pen and ink with light green, blue and sepia watercolor. Lots of hatching and cross hatching. Broken gargoyle face stacked on top of each other.
Pen and ink drawing of broken pieces of gargoyle faces put together like stone wall
Yellowed page of a small book. “State the office of each of the following sentences, and tell the kind of sentence: — 1. The last ray of sunshine departed. 2. every Stranger, finds a ready chair. 3. how fleet is a glance of the mind! 4. the boat was crowded with passengers. 5. dark clouds began to rise in the west. 6. the troops were concealed by a thick wood. 7. what an admirable piece of work this is! 8. apply thine heart to understanding. 9. how many entered the room? 10 consider the lilies of the Field. 11. what was the result? 12. I sat beside the glowing grate. “
Some weird, medieval inspired creatures drawn in pen and ink
Metal bottle opener, handle is medallion of Pope Paul
A faux patina copper sconce shows a silhouette of a saddled horse and crouched cowboy that’s fucking praying.
Sepia ink drawing in progress of a delicate goblet and conical brass bell with a crude crescent and star insignia both sitting on crumpled cloth napkin. Lots of janky cross-hatching.