Friday, June 24, 2011

Feed me, Seymour!







Blagh, long pause between updates again. I didn't have an idea for a good picture for the longest time, but I got one and have been working on it. Currently just beginning the coloring stage. In the meantime, I thought I might feed the blog with some sketches of stuff I've drawn recently or things I just never got around to scanning. Didn't bother to clean them up any.

Also, oddly enough I've actually whipped up two smaller pictures in the meantime as well that I'll probably color two, both featuring the dudes in the last picture.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

MONEY, DEAR BOY

Firth needed money. Desperately, in fact. Though he already had a fair share of cash from being a traveling merchant, him and his "partner" (a giant bird with a knack for finding treasure) had recently landed themselves in a bit of a fix and now had an enormous fine to pay off for property damage. Unwilling to give up all his cash and live like a poor person for a while, he had decided to find another way to get enough cash to pay off his debt. Having heard legends of a unique creature capable of turning anything it touches into gold, him and his bird set out on a quest to find the legendary creature Midaros.

Surprisingly, they actually found it.......though that may not have been a good thing.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

New picture/possible project


So I made another story-less picture of a monster I like, though there's a humen too. I've been drawing some mildly more realistic critters based off the anatomy of some animals lately and thinking of how humans could befriend/work with them, so I guess this means I have a possible picture project underway.

BONUS TIME: Experimental sketches of two pictures I'd like to make, both featuring a traveling merchant and his treasure-seeking bird:


Sunday, November 28, 2010

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.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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.

Friday, September 3, 2010

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.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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.