Friday, May 29, 2009

How far would you go?

Done for my beau for his love story. I don't typically do love stories but this one has my full attention. He wanted it on his binder seperator for inspiration whilst he wrote. If you truly loved someone, how far would you go?

Characters belong to not me. Take and get beaten.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Progress report


The process of coloring is a long one. Ayup. Here's a sample of what I do! Aligator colored, working on the hippo and effects now.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Linage

Okay so I went with the hippo. But in order to bump up the cool its now a samurai hippo. Work with me! Off to color.

A work in progress


This is for May's art contest on BunnyKingdom. Its a NINJA ALLIGATOR. Seriously, could there BE a cooler topic? Only if maybe it was a ninja alligator fighting a koalla pirate. Epic. So epic.

ANYWAY, he's going to be summoning something. Hence the scroll. BUT. I'm stumped as to what. Originally it was going to be a hippo but....there's just no way to draw those things cool. Also I reached an epiphany: Hippos freak the hell out of me. What decent animal has teeth JUTTING OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THEIR JAW?! Evil water pigs. That's what they are. Arg, but he needs to be summoning something! There's always the good ole shinobi standbys: frogs, insects or dogs. Fish? Like maybe some koi? But what kind of lame summon is koi?? RAWR.

I need to think.

How I deal with stress


THIS monster is the product of trying to rewrap my brain around Algebra. I'm a special girl. Also pardon the bad scan; too lazy to get rid of the bloo lines right now.

Comparison


Still trying to nail Verdis. Asked for Khord's help. Which was a bad idea, per usual. SIGH. Still working on it.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Idea

You'll see where this is going. I'll explain later.

Dragons dragons


Told you I have about a million head sheets rolling around. New character concept. The RP rolling around is super fun, but it seems to have shrunk down to four(mostly 3) players. And I can't help it. Revisiting Khord has made me want to continue to complete his story. There's been one major part I hadn't fleshed out yet.
This is Verdis, Khord's full dragon dad. He's a bit of a hard-ass. Not really the huggy feely family type. More like the throw you into a lake, if you drown that really sucks but hey that's natural selection type. I like mutton chops. I'll probably draw a full scale version of his dragon form. His half and half form I might skip a little, but his fully polymorphed form is important. After all, that'd be just about the only thing Khord would recognize. Verdis didn't stick around when he was born, but there are pictures.
Thinking about asking Skye if I can put him in the RP. Maybe as a teacher.....but I don't know if I want to make him a free play character or puppeteer him myself. Hmm....choices.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Good days and bad days

Yesterday was a bad day. Excuse the crinkles. This was riding folded in my pocket since I was running pellknell through pouring rain. Oh the fun of living in a dredged swamp!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Too soon?

Afoot. Afoot. THINGS. ARE. AFOOT.

Public service announcement!

Little note here: The domain to this lil blog has been changed!

Probably noticable for those who have looked for this site and have not found anything. Ayup. Nothing special, really. I just didn't realize I was sharing names with another web group. Notably, Nerdblurb.com. Yeah. I know what you're saying. How'd you miss that? Honestly, I'm slow!

The nice thing is, they were as pleasant as can be. They even complimented my art! I went ahead and swapped the domain on my own just to avoid confusion. I realize some might have thought I've dropped off the face of the earth, hence this message. So! Any of you out there, I'm still here. And so's everything I've done so far. I've just moved to something slightly less confusing. Blogspot is just riding the slow pony express trying to keep up with me.

And that's the end of our public service announcement! We'll be back to normal shenanigans quicker than you can say 'Shenanigans at O'Flannigans'.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Fun with Sumo!


So yeh. For those of you who don't know, Sumo Paint is a really nice free design proggy. This was done with that. Ayup. What made me want to draw Khord getting a shot to the gut, I have no idea. Looks like it hurts, though, doesn't it?

Angry half-dragon

Told you there was more Khord in the future. For this RP, he's about 4000 some odd years younger(roughly 19 by half-blooded standards), and attending school! Wacky antics are insuing.

My favorites are the 3 on the bottom. Ayup.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Trickster Goddess

It's getting closer to how I want my digital arts to look. Oh yesh it is. Miss Xyla in all of her trickster glory. Don't be fooled; she'll steal your wallet and make you pay for lunch!

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Another concept woo!

Think I need to clean my scanner again; these came out a little light. Also, aced my placement test at the local community college today. Imma be teaching chillums in forgein countries. MUWAAAAHAHAA! *cough* No, no, you can totally trust me. Honest!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Rhymes with 'fletched stump'

Gwar! So, I HAVE been a busy little bee. I just haven't been scanning lately. I suppose you could say I might have bitten off more responsibility than I can chew again, but really? It was just a mess of bad luck and tax season really. Moo. Nymine is not fond of bills. Also, I decided I wanted to go back to school. You can see how that might complicate things.

Anyhoo, this below is a sketch I did whilst meeting with my aforementioned creative group again:

No idea where the bat monster or the girl came from. But lookie who! It's Khord again(he recently got reinvented for an rp I'm participating in; I think Khord is one of those chars I'll never really abandon). Expect to see more of him.
This is a group shot for an idea I pitched for our creative group. Basically, it's my contribution into the story fare, something I want to have animated eventually. Not saying much about it at the moment since it's still very infant in age. However, I'mma HAFTA keep going this one, otherwise I'm sure my group would flog me. See kiddies? Peer pressure IS a good thing!!

Next couple of images are all from said story. This is basically an illustration of how I conceptualize characters. I literally have hundreds of sheets like the one above where I'm just trying to visualize what the character looks like. It all starts with heads for me. That's where all the personality lies, you know? Get yourself a decent head and it'll be sooo much easier to tack it on to a body(for me atleast; probably b/c to me eyes are the most important part of a char, or lack there of).



Next comes the many different attempts at body and clothes. This is actually a completely different character from the first sheet, as that char hasn't reached this stage yet, and I lost most of the bunny's head pages('lost' is a loose term open to interpretation meaning 'tore up and pitched in artistic grr mode').



And the finalized design. At this point at least. No doubt it'll continue to evolve, but I like to keep tabs. And this one's a two-fer(trying to conserve paper doncha knoo).
Afoot! Afoot! Things are afoot!

Finalizing



Colors soon to follow!