Duality: OH SHIT I ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING

So, Nanowrimo happened, and for once I decided to participate. However, instead of setting my goal at writing 50,000 words of a new novel, I simply used it to motivate my sorry ass to actually do something with Duality (well, okay, I had written most of the opening parts before, but I was extremely slow on that). So I set my goal at 15,000, and successfully managed to churn out some of the major scenes (or ones I wanted to write in the storyline).

Also, it made me realize a number of glaring plot flaws, and how it seems like so many of the characters only have fairly small roles in the actual story. Harsh, but necessary. It also gave me the idea of making a series of short sidestories about the various characters just doing silly things, along with the main storyline. Considering what a worthless asshole I am though, it remains to be seen how well that will work out.


These scenes are all in chronological order, despite all being entirely disconnected. Enjoy, I guess.

MASSIVE MONSTER DUMP

Yeah, since school started I've hit a massive monster-drawing high. It's so much fun to just draw things that have nothing to do with anything and just sorta standalone, though I do have a sort of framework in mind for most of these guys.

There's also some old stuff I never scanned, so yay.

RUN, COWARD

SO I DREW A DRAGON WHO LOOKS LIKE A WEEDY SEA DRAGON AND LIKED HIM SO I MADE HIM A PICTURE

This is still in that phase where it's mostly complete, but I still feel like it needs shit, but don't know what else to add. I feel like the magma needs more texture or something but have no clue how to add it. Also yay for experimenting with lighting and watercolors!

Anyway, I have two other big monsters I aim to do pictures like this one for. It's nice to just do a random picture that has nothing to do with anything.

TONS MOAR DUALITY

I FINALLY DREW DECENT PROFILE SKETCH THINGS FOR EVERYONE IN DUALITY. So to keep my thoughts and these dude's personalities straight and such I'm gonna be rambling a bit on EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM.
Abigail Styx is the main character from Fantasyland. She's extremely rough around the edges, rowdy, and impolite as well as extraordinarily strong. However, at heart she's extremely honest and straightforward, so if you can get on her good side you'll have a good friend. As the Embodiment of light, she can use her light powers in conjunction with her strength, primarily to blind people by sucking all the light of the surrounding area. She starts the story having been accidentally tossed outside of Fantasyland, and then found and contained for three days by the government. Naturally, she breaks out.

The main character from the other setting, a high-tech government-dominated city, Collin is pretty much the polar opposite of Abigail, in that he's extremely timid, nerdy, and not really strong at all. He had only been working for the facility that was containing Abigail for about two weeks before she broke out and took him hostage, but since Abigail sucks ass at hostage situations she had really no idea what she was doing and wound up taking him to Fantasyland. Though he spends much of the story fucking up, at the end he manages to tap into some hidden strength shit and do awesome things due to Abigail's influence. He likes building models.
Cassandra is Abigail's little sister. Somehow. She's cheerful, bubbly, and understanding, which goes well with Abigail's somewhat coarse nature, and lets her make lots of friends. The jar on her back is an infinite storage space, and can contain everything from soup to giant laser beams, which she loves to spam all over the place whenever she winds up fighting someone.

Samhain is, by nature, a prankster. As the embodiment of fear, he loves using nasty pranks to sow paranoia and fright wherever he goes, and the eye on his stomach can produce myriad frightening illusions. As a result of this, he's pretty unpopular, and lives alone in the darkest regions of the forest, where it's said he set up a house full of traps and tricks to surprise anyone trying for revenge on him and keep himself on his toes. His morals are extremely ambiguous, so he could be recruited to either do good or do bad shit. He can hide inside people's shadows.
Overemotional, sensitive, and poorly drawn, Lorenzo is an artist through and through. He spends much of his time painting, spazzing out, or some combo of the two. His power lets him redraw himself into practically anything; though this makes him extremely versatile, his drawings are not as powerful as the real thing they're imitating and in all his forms he's extremely vulnerable to fire.

Namu is approximately the size of a pickup truck, and just as durable. Boistrous, friendly, and gentle, the giant catfish is a longtime friend of Abigail, and spars with her on a regular basis. He's actually the reason Abigail begins the story outside of Fantasyland; he went a bit overboard and sent her flying through the border. As the embodiment of earth, he can swim through the ground as though it was water, and can use the ground for various attacks.
One of the few genuinely malevolent entities in Fantasyland, Moire is extremely spiteful, bitter, and lonely. Due to her general frailty and lack of strength, Moire is constantly filled with feelings of worthlessness and envy towards the other, stronger residents of Fantasyland. Unfortunately, these qualities only serve to make the others isolate her more, making her even more bitter and hostile to others. In battle, Moire uses poisoned needles to immobilize her foes and can sap their strength, making them just as weak as she is.
In the origins of Fantasyland, the creator, Blank, knew that evil would always have to exist in the world in some form. In her desire to make Fantasyland as peaceful as possible, she created an Embodiment of Evil; only unlike the rest of the embodiments, it was completely immobile and barely sentient, and was basically a storage place for all the potential evil and hatred in Fantasyland.

The Hatestones are that embodiment; eight stones arranged in a circular formation, hidden away deep in the forest. Unfortunately, evil and hatred are so strong that the stones are far from simple monuments; feeling undying hatred and malevolence towards all living things, when approached the Hatestones will transform their shadows into monstrous hands and jaws and relentlessly attack in an attempt to annihilate the intruder, and both the stones and the shadows are completely indestructible. Fortunately, the stones, like normal stones, are immobile.
The first embodiment created by Blank, Burgess has been around as long as Fantasyland. With an infinite memory, Burgess was created to be the living historical document of everything that happened. It was not at all uncommon to see him soaring overhead on most days, recording everything that he saw. Unfortunately, at the time of the story, he had been missing for two months, and what happened to him results in a clash the likes Fantasyland had never seen before. Personality-wise, Burgess is extremely mellow, polite, and relaxed, but is said to be unstoppable when angered.

The embodiment of life and the creator of Fantasyland, Blank's origins are entirely unknown. As the God of Fantasyland, Blank is emotionless, logical, and calculating, allowing her to maintain Fantasyland well. However, she is not entirely fond of the world outside for unknown reasons, and reacts very poorly to any serious action done by them towards her world. Her powers are extremely varied, and make her extremely powerful in combat.

Whew, lot of typing.

Miniscule Mass of Musical Monsters

A habit I'm developing is randomly thinking of monsters/segments inspired by music (mostly game music) and then drawing what they make me think of. Almost all of Enemy's original concept/character designs were sparked by The Invasion From Within.

So I colored my first batch and decided to upload them here, ramble a bit about what I thought of them, and link the song they were inspired by.

Name: Slabulous
Inspired by: Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest
I imagined this being the main menace in a sort of temple escape/advancing wall of doom scenario, where some characters entered a temple and took the treasure, causing all the defense mechanisms to activate and causing a forced scrolling segment past whirring sawblades and thrusting spears and whatnot as Slabulous slowly crawls along after them on its many fingers, smashing through anyone and anything in its way with its constantly-chomping jaws. It's actually a biological monster with extremely rock-like skin, like rock-type Pokemon.

Name: Tankenstein
Inspired by: A song I made in WarioWare DIY.
This is just a straight-up boss monster. His entire torso can flip back to shoot enormous laser beams redirected by small satellites.

Name: Cactus Sanchez
Inspired by: Sunset Heroes
Cactus Sanchez is a man among men. He has infinite grenades and a rocket launcher in his poncho, and rules the desert with a kind yet prickly fist. He's not very kind to strangers.
Name: Love Machine Mk. 3
Inspired by: Sweet Nightmare
There's really no appropriate description or backstory I can cook up for this thing. It's a boss monster similar to Tankenstein. It loves everything, and expresses this by grabbing things and nuzzling them against its heart-shaped face (which unfortunately sprouts spikes when Love Machine is feeling affectionate). It also shoots fireballs and homing hearts from its codpiece by pelvic thrusting.

This is the sort of frivolous shit I think of and draw all the time, so there'll probably be more random monsters/ideas that will never happen in any context ever coming soon.

Duality

Duality is my current story idea. Don't have many drawings worth showing for it yet though, since a lot of them somehow got fucked up in scanning and I have to rescan them.

Duality is my first attempt at real worldbuilding, as most other story ideas I have just take place in some city where crazy shit happens. THIS story takes equal parts in a government coverup-heavy city that covers up anything remotely out of the ordinary and a Touhou-inspired fantasyland sealed off from the rest of the world (depicted in the picture I uploaded previously). This is where my attempt at worldbuilding occurs.


The thing about fantasyland is it was created by a sort of god, which was the embodiment of life. She then populated it with all sorts of crazy crap, and every last character living there is the embodiment of a different thing. Some are humanoid, but just as many of them are just weird creatures; in addition to the ones shown above, the embodiment of earth is a giant catfish that swims through the ground and the embodiment of art is an extremely emotive poorly-drawn notebook doodle. Embodiments of actual elements are very rare, they're mostly embodiments of random concepts. Also, they fight. A lot. Their way of resolving almost any minor conflict or getting to know new people is to just have a brawl with them. Considering that all of them have some sort of superpower related to what they're the embodiment of, this makes living in fantasyland very interesting. Also, general setting-wise, the whole place is sort of like a historic town in that there's no real technology and everyone has to do manual labor for things, and it's vaguely Asian in flavor.
Plotwise, the basic premise is that Abigail (the anglerfish girl) winds up in normal city and is captured, winds up kidnapping a dude named Collin and taking him to fantasyland, and eventually shit gets out of hand and snowballs until there's an all-out war between the two worlds at the end. Fuck I'm tired of writing this.

First actual picture in a long time

I worked pretty hard on this and kinda like it, but I still can't help but feel that something's wrong with it and it's still incomplete, especially on the more distant part with the tree.

Also this is for my other current story idea. Which I have not posted anything for on here yet. Muh.

ENEMY

Enemy is my newest....thing. I don't know what to call it. I just suddenly decided HEY I KNOW I'LL DRAW THE CRAZIEST SHIT I CAN MUSTER and suddenly I had a new style and a bunch of characters.


So far the premise is the main character, Malach Giltine (the dude with the stitched-shut mouth and screws for eyes) is the son of a death god (or shinigami, for all you animu fans out there) . He comes to a big city place because it's full of bastards who like to cheat death, so he has to make sure that they all die when and how they're supposed to. Also, many of them are making deals with demons to preserve their life, so there's a fuckton of goblins and imps and shit skulking about behind the scenes.

I haven't really decided on much for many of these guys yet regarding their personalities and stuff, other than that Alec is A) The Dragon to the bigger villain (the evil little girl) and B) a terrifying psychopath who lives entirely for the amusement he derives from making people suffer in horrible ways.

Also, more doodles.

These dudes and the style are ridiculously fun to draw, so I might wind up making an actually decent picture or two for this story.

Help Me!

Help Me! wasn't my first story idea, but it was certainly the first one I had that wasn't a total pile of shit. The basic premise is that this big enigmatic purple cloud of a mysterious substance later labeled "Truth" swirls into a city and totally fucks everything up by transforming everyone into monsters based on their crippling personality flaws. Soon the whole city is deserted by humans in a desperate attempt to escape, leaving behind a gloomy, ruined city populated by bizarre monsters.


The story follows Collin Ampersand, a clueless, timid rich kid who gets abandoned by his asshole parents and gets turned into an uncannily adorable slime kid due to being a spineless homie. He then tries to figure shit out, go on a path of self-discovery, and generally try to survive long enough to escape a city filled with such creatures as murderous giant sperm and crying heads on wheels that explode when thoroughly distressed. I actually came up with a ton of monsters I really liked for this series, but never scanned the majority of them. I probably should sometime.




Almost every story idea I have ever had ends with what essentially amounts to a final boss battle. I can't help myself. The final boss this time is Desire, a giant monster living underneath the city that is basically every primal human urge and desire rolled into one, despite originally being human, like every other monster in the city. He's quite mad, and is only capable of saying "MORE," yet is the size of a Godzilla monster and capable of brainwashing other monsters into doing his every whim. Unlike most final bosses, he has little to no association with the rest of the story's events, only showing up at the end.

So, naturally, once Collin and his posse find the damn thing, they wind up provoking it and it emerges to wreck shit up. Every other monster in the city sees this, freaks out realizing that if they just keep on being self-indulgent monster bastards they'll become like that, and all team up to fight Desire in a climactic final brawl.

Yo.

I'm a guy. I draw things, mostly crazy critters and bizarre characters. I have little motivation to do big projects with them, though, so they mostly remain doodles in a miserable little pile.

Anyway I'm just gonna dump all my shit here since I was tired of imageshacking, along with some brief explanations of what the hell these people/things are.