To Change the World

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What I'm currently working on. This has to be one of the better full-bodied pictures I've done with this new style (still having problems with the neck area, though). It's Damon after feeding and having shifted back into his humanoid form. When he shifts, his clothes don't go with him, so he's obviously nude. Plan to add some bits like his remains and shit, but other than that, soon I'll be ready to lineart him.

Also am having problems with getting him to look the same throughout every picture.

STOP! PUT YO' HANDS IN THE AIR

Having a bit of trouble getting this to FREAKING LOOK RIGHT. Might just erase everything from the head down and start all over again.

Anyway, this is Jules. Jules is a state policeman who finds Damon in an abandoned house he is sent to investigate. The two become roommates of sorts with Jules taking care of his little vampire buddy and Damon just shacking up with him. I doubt they're going to have any sort of a romantic relationship (I imagine Jules to be more asexual), but there's probably going to be some sort of "bromance"/male fanservice oh god i just walked into you showering-type comedy that'll happen. WHO KNOWS.

As for me, I'm going to try to fix this before I colour it. Argh.

Damon

Whenever I end up colouring something, it always looks like the most toony piece of shit.
I'll come back later and see whether or not I like this more. I had to repaint it like, two times. Don't know if I'm going to post it to DA.

Wish I could colour more realistically. Oh well. IT ARE A JOURNEY.


Edit 2:06 AM:

Updated version:

  I tried to unsaturate it a bit but...I don't know. I'm done with this for now, lol.


Edit 10:14 PM:

Okay, this is the version I uploaded:

Still looks too damn toony but...whatever.  Maybe it's the lines?

YAY!

Not bad for babby's first lineart, isn't it? It wasn't as bad (tedious) as I thought and only took a few hours. Now I can't wait to color this sucker! I haven't coloured something in such a long time. I hope I still remember how, haha.

Bite Me!

A vampire character that has been floating around in my head for a while. He is the personification of a greater false vampire bat. :D He doesn't have a name yet, but tentative ones are Damon or Will. I'm not sure whether or not to make him someone's familiar or have him travel about on his own volition. As a vampire bat, he has a voracious appetite, and especially prefers insects (grasshoppers and crickets) and other bats. And though he can see as well as any human, he prefers to listen with his large ears.

I might try to ink and color this. Oh God! I am so impatient when it comes to inking, but it will be a challenge. I really want to color something. This will also be my first time, so, welp, here it goes.

Kindred Spirit

Someone on DA requested that people draw his original character, a warrior named Kieno. He sounded interesting, and I had a picture of him in mind, so I decided to take a shot at him! I had fun drawing him, and did lots of new things. Like I've never had a character with facial hair before, or short spiky hair. Getting these to look even remotely right took a while. It was also my first time drawing armor and sword hilts and such.

I'm also experimenting with this semi-realistic style some more. I don't want all my characters to look the same or to get stuck not varying facial features. Still having trouble with full figures though. And don't even get me started on coloring.

Ugh.

This one is...meh. I've been having the hardest time with her damn hair, especially that side view. It looks like it makes no sense, haha. (And it probably doesn't.)

Here's the protagonist of the story, Svetlana. Lana is seventeen years old and comes from the rougher side of the tracks. Sent to live with her grandmother, she befriends the selkie, Marmaduke (below). Together they grow and learn what it means to face the world/mature. So basically it's going to be one of my tell-tale coming-of-age stories.

I'm not very creative when it comes to character design, so this was hard as balls. There's a few things about her I want to fix, but other than that, it's just concept art, so I'll probably do more sketches and shit before I get down to the main meat. None of them look alike... Argh.

For Whom the Man Drowns

A character I adopted from an egg on DeviantART--a selkie! I think I'm going to use him for a comic in which he becomes entangled with a young teenage girl who steals his pelt and he learns some damn humility.

This selkie doesn't have a name pronounceable in our tongues, so the girl gives him the nickname of Marmaduke (pending). He is a Californian harbor seal who is a complete narcissist only in love with himself. He enjoys drowning women and has a reputation in the area for doing so. He can often be found staring at himself in some reflective surface, which was the inspiration for this picture other than a character model. I imagine he's staring at himself in a mirror or glass.

I tried to practice making him look the same from all angles. The first picture was an experiment with drawing him on the computer from a concept sketch I did in my sketchbook, so it doesn't quite fit in with the others. Uhhh... Well, they all kind of don't look like they fit in with each other!

A Rose for a Rose 2

Whereas yesterday I had problems with getting Runako to look like a man, today I had problems with getting Rose to look like an eleven-year old girl. But I guess I got close enough. Need some constructive critique though because...I can't draw children and it's damn hard getting references of them and artistic lessons on them!

Put them together. :) Runako and Rose!

A Rose for a Rose

So proud of this piece. And just proud of myself in general. I just feel like I am improving so much; this doesn't even look like the shit I used to draw a few months ago when I got burnt out!

This is my character I haven't drawn since like, eighth grade, Runako, who is an assassin. He looks a little girly in this picture. :/ It looked MANLY but then when I added the hair, the MANliness disappeared. So fuck it.

I might try to ink it. I seem to just give up whenever it comes to inking something. It's so involved and I'm so impatient! Maybe if this was on paper...

Saria of the Leaves

I'm going to try and render this in coloured pencil.

Wish me luck oh god

Figure Drawing #2

BY JOVE.

I'm going to start doing these every day (or at least trying to). Drawing gesture and figure drawings on my tablet to practice getting used to drawing with it (I usually draw on paper, scan it in, and then color underneath the line art). It was surprisingly fun if not a bit weird (argh, such sketchy lines!), but I think if I keep it up, I will see improvement. This was a 60-minute drawing, timed, with a randomly generated reference. :D Anatomy looks wonky but... I'm working on it!

H&H Concept: The Demon (Portrait)

It's weird how much you lose the character of the sketch after you digitalize it and stuff. All I did was fiddle with the levels to get rid of the dark spots, and damn, it looks too sterile and clean.

This is a character concept sketch for a comic I plan to start this summer called "Heaven & Hell". This is one of the protagonists, a demon, who is to be paired up with an angel. He doesn't have a name yet. He's supposed to look older and more manly/rugged but... I don't think I'll ever lose this horrendous anime influence my art has. That or it'll just take a damn long time. /cry

He's a prince of hell and a warlord. He "wears" his horns in a characteristic Leia bun-style, and has a sentient snake/serpent that is his tail. He is hedonistic in nature and enjoys shacking up with just about every woman (except human women, which he finds gross!). He has wings that he is able to sprout and has the usual supernatural demon abilities. He has a sarcastic personality and is positively tortured whenever someone invokes the name of the Lord or Jesus (this includes other religious paraphernalia such as crosses, churches, rosaries, etc.).

Full body concept and the angel later! :>

Midna 2

Welp, I tried. I didn't really know what to do with this picture, so fuck it.

Next time I'll try a human or something.

babby's first speedpaint

I've always wanted to try speedpainting and over the past couple of days I just had this urge. After finally getting frustrated with myself, I tried. Here's after about an hour and forty five of just dicking around.

I don't know if I'll do anything more with her. I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to shade her/getting her shading to look right. :3

ARRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!

This picture was a literal nightmare from conception to execution. I dun goofed on just about everything and some stuff just looks seriously wonky (Dark Link's proportions and anatomy; THE HATS ...), but... I mean it was for practice so I guess it's alright. Kinda don't want to upload it to my main gallery though. :/

We Are... We Are Link.

Better! At least... I think so...

I think I'm not going to go much further with this. This is just way too frustrating and I've been having problems with this thing ever since day one. I just can't get anything to look right and my patience is beyond waning thin.

Don't know which direction I'm going to take Dark Link, either. As Link's shadow, he's usually portrayed as being grey or black with his characteristic red eyes. Some people also draw him as a recoloured Link only with black hair and clothes. I like to think of him, being Link's doppelgaenger, as his "evil twin" so to speak. He essentially is Link.

But it doesn't look visually interesting. I would love to remake this picture but make it more interesting to look at, with a more compelling narrative and dichotomy between the two. But I also never want to go look at this thing again. So, yeah... I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. Maybe I'll try again when I'm not bored of this already.

Ramble, ramble, ramble...

Where the Wild Things Are

Damn, long time, no write (or draw). For the longest time I had an artist's block, just not knowing what the crap to draw. Now I'm bursting with ideas. Here's something that's been sitting with me for a while now; I've been  working on it on and off. Having problems with the anatomy (particularly Dark Link's). I think what I'm going to do is when I get this on the computer I'm going to move his body upwards a little bit, because where it stands now, he has like, no chest and I keep compensating it with his back but it doesn't look good or right. I ended up drawing him and regular Link too close together, methinks.



Look ma, no timestamp.

I've also had other ideas for drawings, lots of comic ideas and such, so...we'll see where we go with everything. Yay, I guess.

Adam, Mai Waifu

Don't think I'm going to go much further with this. I just cannot get Samus to look right here. Her body's way too thick (I don't want her to look anorexic like she did in Other M, but I don't want her to look so...heavy? I guess? either...) and I can't get her goddamn face right. Also her head is too big for her body.

That's one of the problems I am having with this new "semi-realistic"/whatever art style. Getting the proportions of everything right is killing me. From the head down it always just turns into a nightmare. I need a figure drawing class...

Anyway, this probably will be my last Other M piece of art. Thanks LP, for the muse! Don't know what I will draw next. I got a few ideas lined up, so we'll see.

Also ARRRRGH i forgot to turn off the timestamp! And don't ask why my camera is being so damn blurry.

Oh yeah, and this is what MB looked like before I started fucking around with stuff (and after I fixed shit with the good ol' lasso tool). She's graphite on paper with coloured pencil for the eyes and barrette. Also, the shinies in the eyes are white-out. O_O Never using that again...