Tuesday, August 18, 2009

023 - character design


i haven't posted anything all summer because i really haven't been doing anything all summer. but this is a quick character design that i did yesterday because i had an idea in my head that wouldn't go away. so yeah, threw this together. and that's really all i've got to say.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

022 - character illustration


the character from my previous update along with another from his story. i made a playlist for them and used this image to sort of.. well, advertise it i guess.

Monday, July 6, 2009

021 - character illustration


a doodle from work that i cleaned up and finished in photoshop. i felt like drawing just how i felt in my last semester's painting class, so i stuck my character quent into it. the dreary room is somewhat based on the painting studio at MWP, only much more desolate looking, if only to play up just how much i loathed the class. i'm not much for painting, really. which kind of sucks for whatever future in illustration i may have. why am i an art major guys, for serious.

Friday, July 3, 2009

020 - fanart

i was re-reading harry potter and the half-blood prince (so everything would be fresh in my mind when the movie came out) when i decided that i felt like drawing my two favourite characters - percy weasley and oliver wood. they're both background characters who don't get that much "screen time" and one of them is probably one of the most disliked characters in the series, even after his redemption in the last book. even jk rowling doesn't like percy. but i think he's a great, complex character and look forward to seeing him redeem himself in the last movie (even though he's been cut from the hbp one..)
oh man guys, i can not wait for my harry potter class next year.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

019 - character designs


i'm sorry i haven't posted anything in like a month and a half, but if it's any consolation, it's not because i've been forgetting - i just haven't been doing anything. but today i took my tablet to work in the afternoon and did some doodles. i unintentionally ended up making a new brush that i like using a whole lot, so these were the outcome of me playing with it. i can ink and tone at the same time!

i've been developing three storylines at once since summer started so i would be able to feel productive. these two characters are from one that i named furre high. it has a LOT of characters, and some day i'd love to have an image of all of them done in this style so i can make a booklet with everything - character designs, char profiles, season outlines... who knows if that will happen.. wish me luck!

seef is on top, tearah is on bottom. tearah is unfortunately cursed to forever look like me. what happened is when i made her back in middle school, i gave her the glasses and haircut that eventually i wanted for myself. ...and then i got them, and she basically became me. only as a rabbit anthro. oops. i draw her nose differently than mine though.. and i started drawing her with her hair pulled back, which is something that i don't do often. seef (who is actually named steve, but i've been calling him seef since middle school).

this story has like 6 books planned out if i were to ever turn it into a comic, and the designs change slightly from one book to the next. basically as the characters grow. so seef looks like how he would in the 5th/6th book and tearah looks like how she would in the 4th/5th.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

018 - sort of eh fanart

fanart's not something i do often, but i've been watching supernatural pretty much every day since i've been home and i couldn't help myself. (i heard about it ages ago and really wanted to watch is, but i only recently managed to get the episodes. and oh man do i dig it. everything i could ever want in a tv show [that's not British surprisingly] - theology, urban legends, ghosts, awesome brothers. what's not to like).

i just finally got to the 4th season last night and wow do i love castiel. i've always really loved angels and the idea behind them, and the fact that he's a badass angel that has no qualms about killing people makes me so happy.

so i threw this together while watching some episodes earlier. not my best, but i always have fun using heavy black shadows, despite how rarely i show it. plus, the look of castiel is based on the comic book character constantine - that might have something to do with how this turned out.

017 - flats

cartoony self portrait with and old, ooooooold character of mine that i draw a lot but never finish any drawings of. usually i end up drawing him with myself, along with another character that i don't do finished pictures of often. i usually just draw him picking on me for something because that's basically what he exists to do. here he's just chilling and being a creep. because that's also something that he exists to do. one day i'd love to do a series of comics about myself and these two characters (who i usually intend to be manifestations of the workings of my mind). but i'm just weird like that.