Couch Drawings

A place for daily sketches of Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 019 of Year 12 Budduk spent a lot of her time in Zero-G these days. In un-graved stations inside and out fixing the things that needed fixing. She liked the work, and didn't mind the floating. But she did find the adjustment to grav at the end of the day a bit off putting sometimes.

What I used: Nota and Muji 0.35mm dark blue pens on Pentalic small notebook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-13 Year 12 - No019a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 018 of Year 12 Wamer never went anywhere without a good pair of earshades. Her ears were extra sensitive and there was no way she was going to subject them to the sounds and wind and dust of the outdoors without some protection.

What I used: Nota and Muji 0.35mm dark blue pens on Pentalic small notebook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-12 Year 12 - No018a, by Jeff Stewart

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Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Gerhilde, The Gleeful Spear Battling Strategist

Well here we are another Thor’s Day and another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic) mythological characters.  This week it’s Gerhilde, Wagners name for one of the Valkyries in Das Rheingold, Die Walkure.

Her name translates to “spear battle". From the Old High German 'ger' / 'gēr' for "spear" and 'hiltja' / 'hild' meaning "battle".

She is the daughter of Wotan and Erda, and her sisters are Helmwige, Waltraute, Schwertleite, Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Grimgerde, Siegrune, and Brunhilde.

She excitedly flies over the fields of battle with her sisters gathering the worthy fallen to bring them to Valhalla.

She is often portrayed as the intellectual strategist of the group. Veering into gleeful performance of her duties. She refuses to help Brunhilde afraid of her father's wrath.

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Challenge Day 016 of Year 12 Mora wasn't sure she was ready to live somewhere without the constant rain of her home colony. She couldn't imagine being without the sounds of it on the habitats, and the smells of the plants and soil.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-11 Year 12 - No016a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 015 of Year 12 Charas was proud of it's fitness journey. It had been terribly out of shape the year before and was feeling so much better now that he was active.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-10 Year 12 - No015a, by Jeff Stewart

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Piercing Gaze. 2025-2026

From a quick drawing I did on a train, to an overly complicated, and not terribly organized Photoshop finish. Getting back into the swing of digital painting bit by bit. Did I try every blending and layer mode in the bag?.. Yes. Does it work?.. Some of it. But it was fun to try.

Pilot colour automatic pencil on Catalina Sanchez Pocket Sketchbook and Photoshop colour.

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Challenge Day 014 of Year 12 Targ only knew what Huam was going to do when he finally got home. He'd left so suddenly to sign up for the guard that barely anyone had heard about it before he had shipped out. Now having seen more of the sector he knew he wasn't the same person who'd run all that time ago. He wondered if he really could go home after this.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-09 Year 12 - No014a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 013 of Year 12 NH had a lot of ground to cover in the facility each day. So he listened to recordings of various animal sounds. He found it quite soothing.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-08 Year 12 - No013a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 012 of Year 12 Parii was in desperate need of a long vacation. The few days at a time she could take off work never managed to relax her.

What I used: Nota and Muji 0.35mm dark blue pens on Pentalic small notebook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-07 Year 12 - No012a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 011 of Year 12 T1R loved going to concerts. The people, the energy, the unexpected nature of how the songs would be played, it was all very exciting.

What I used: Nota and Muji 0.35mm dark blue pens on Pentalic small notebook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-06 Year 12 - No011a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 010 of Year 12 Birik was not a trusting person. She'd learned not to.

What I used: Nota and Muji 0.35mm dark blue pens on Pentalic small notebook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-05 Year 12 - No010a, by Jeff Stewart

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Geirtyr - Odin, The Spear God Norsery Rhymes from A to Z

Well here we are another Thor’s Day and another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic) mythological characters.  This week it’s Geirtyr, one of the names attributed to Odin / Wodan.

His name is thought to mean “Spear god". From 'geirr' "spear" and 'tyr', "god".

It’s Odin in his aspect as the commander of the great warriors fallen in battle, that he invites to join him as one of his Einherjar in Valhalla.

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Challenge Day 009 of Year 12 Bawn was never sure where he stood at his job. It was a strange company to him with little communication until something was done incorrectly in their eyes. Otherwise he never knew if he was doing it correctly.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-04 Year 12 - No009a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 008 of Year 12 Parr loved discovering new music. Not that it didn't appreciate the music it already knew. But there was something about hearing something for the first time, then the thrill of discovering more to it on further listenings.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-03 Year 12 - No008a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 007 of Year 12 Brian worked for some people that weren't the most ethical. He pretended that they were though so he could keep working. He didn't want to try and find a new job in his arm of the system.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-02 Year 12 - No007a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 006 of Year 12 Quar was the kind o person to wear a winter jacket all year round. It's not that he want to be warm, he just never waned to be cold.

What I used: LePen and Muji 0.38mm light blue pens on Piccadilly High Quality Paper Sketchbook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-06-01 Year 12 - No006a, by Jeff Stewart

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Challenge Day 005 of Year 12 NAR-023b spent it's days scanning the oceans of the moon closest to it's local base. Apart from regular maintenance, It only left to charge up and clean off so it felt far more attached to the watery moon it traversed than the to the base it periodically returned to.

What I used: Nota and Muji 0.35mm dark blue pens on Pentalic small notebook. What this is: Daily Character Design Challenge, 2026-05-31 Year 12 - No005a, by Jeff Stewart

Since I have even less time this year I thought I’d again combine my daily sci-fi characters and Mer-May all together. So you can expect daily sci related mer-people for the rest of the month.