Fang and Sino (sketches)

Hi, all! You had a good week? I think mine was good. It's hard to tell between the bursts of anxiety and hyper-fixation burnouts, but y'know. *shrug* Pretty sure it was good.
I have no idea what I'm doing. The novelty and hyper-focus for the new project is helping. But after another week or two it'll get harder, but maybe I'll have a solid outline by that point.. In any case, despite the struggle, I'm having a lot of fun. And I'm excited, despite the nervousness.

If I hadn't been so focused on work, I might've put some effort into my Saturday Picture tonight. But I was, and the only thing I drew that wasn't my comic was some arachnid kids. So...

Yeah. That's all you're getting this week.
Enjoy the fluffy spiders. I'm out!
Hope you're all doing okay, and I wish you a good weekend. :)

Purity (Concept Sketch)

Every time I think I'm done with my Inside Out Oc's, they all go "No your not, and here's why" and then I proceed to spent the next few days drawing them.
That's fine. They've helped me out a lot, and if I love the idiots in my brain then I love myself too. Win-win situation.
But I think this time it's going to last a bit longer than a few days...
Why?

Because I have a new comic project dedicated to one of them now.

Well. I suppose self-indulgent fan-comics are a good way to experiment and test your limits. So I'm not that upset about this.
(It's definitely ONE way to spend the next three months of your life, anyway!)

This new comic-project was inspired by... well, me thinking deeply about nothing in particular while on holidays, and then having a light-bulb moment at something that I didn't realize sooner.
Long story short, I found one of my Core Memories. One that I've had since I was 7-8. And now I'm going to use that to... explore (for lack of a better term) how that works in a world that does the opposite.

It's weird being on the other side of the glass and becoming more aware of who you are as a person... Those lil' people inside my head are probably growing very uncomfortable with this development. But the improved work conditions and team-building exercises probably outweigh any real complaints they might have.
If nothing else, it's been fun trying to reverse-engineer my personality and figure out who's doing what at the controls. Very useful if Sadness or Anger want to say something. A bit trickier if it's Disgust or Fear...

Anyway. I doubt I'll do anything else than draw thumbnails and nitpick my script over the next few weeks.. But I'll do my best to draw something for this blog anyway!
Can't guaranteed it wont be Inside Out related tho...

Special Delivery

OKAY why not make this a 3 for 3? Three detailed pictures in three weeks!
I'm down with that.

 

I took part in a monthly art challenge which focused on creating good character designs, and how to present them. Might have cut a few corners, but considering how stressed I was about participating at all, it's like... eh. I'll forgive myself for that.

The fact that I saw this through to the end is achievement enough.

Anyway! The idea was to learn how to collect references, consider the nature and roll of our character, and thus put whatever was in our heads onto paper better than just simply saying 1-2-3-go and accepting whatever we came up with first.

Lemme tell you. When I first drew this guy in 2020, I was not satisfied. Like. It wasn't bad. But I knew I could do better, but didn't know how.
Now I do. And I'm much happier with the results.

This steampunk mailman was a concept I made purely for the aesthetic, so I never took it further than "Oh, he accidentally helps kick-start a revolution by delivering letters reliably and quickly."
Admittedly, I still haven't gotten further than that, but I now have a decent design that I can use whenever I do decide to expand on his universe... so it's cool.

The Fear of Death takes away the Joy of Living

You know how I've been complaining about not drawing something to the limit of it's max potential these past few weeks?
Well, you don't have to worry about that now. Because I just spent two days and roughly 6-7 hours on this!
*cue relieved sigh from the audience*

Yeah. I know. I'm happy about this development too.
So very, very happy...

Mm! Oh yeah. That looks good.

Wasn't sure how my shading was going to turn out, but I found a really nice home-made brush (one that I must've made months earlier) that did the trick really nicely! Didn't feel weird or forced, and it made the process that much sweeter to do.
Dunno what I did to deserve that, but I'll take it. :)

Although, I think I've gotten rusty with glowing effects... I mean, it's not bad. But I can definitely do better than that.

But anyway! When all is said and done, I'm pretty happy about this. I'm proud to call it my own.