Mini post

Hey everyone, I'm not dead, just a bit under the weather. I probably won't be posting as frequently over the next month or two. Such a drag as I was really in a good groove this semester. Anyways, here's a couple of sketched done over the past few weeks.

Inspirations - birds, always birds. I love those little guys, as if that wasn't obvious by now. African wooden masks as well as pretty much any kind of mask that I've encountered in my trips to museums like the ROM and the Menil Collection.
Red col-erase, 2 weeks ago?
Amelia's face is off in the profile. Her jaw does not look like that. I'm not sold on Rodrigo's owl mask. I think I'll be fiddling around with that one some more.

Inspirations - mongolian boots (because they are so incredibly awesome), the hair styles I came up with for the Rapunzel pair, some old sketches
Red col-erase, 1 week ago
Been writing a lot for the All Hail universe thanks to the short story I'm working on for class. I decided that I needed a good look for the Northern Tribes that was very different from the look of Sentrans like Amelia, Rodrigo, and Adrian. I ended up using a lot of old sketch ideas and working with simpler, more angular lines than the puffy Sentran look. Lots of layers of wool to combat the cold. I think I need to incorporate the design on their boots into their clothes more.

Thursday afternoon update!

Have a BAMF in high fashion!

Inspirations - a girl in a yellow coat walking outside my classroom yesterday
Not much to say - I like this lady. I think I might have to do something with her later.

Have something happy

I had a bad week. So I drew something insanely peppy and happy. Basic colours blocked out and thats about it.  I've hit the wall so this is it for tonight.

Probably won't stick with these colours; I'm working in CMYK because I'm tired of how poorly everything always prints in RGB, but this version here is RGB, so there's some colour differences from the working file. Debating whether to put a cityscape in the background or some sort of natural setting. Possibly just a funky design. Gah. I hate backgrounds but I really need to get over that. Too tired to write anything more. Oodles of love to everyone else who has had a bad week.

Also, this is the 50th post. Thanks for following or simply stumbling upon my little art blog. <3

Bechdel Test

So, this started out as a simple parody and quickly became lots of fun and pretty good design/layout practice. I know my parents and possible friends of family are going to find this, and to them I say, if Hans was a girl no one would take a second glance. That's why I made this, to point out the baffling disparities in the roles and portrayals of men and women in movies.

Tables Turned 01-Bechdel Test
Inspirations - action films, the Bechdel test (google it), 5 man bands (see previous post in January),  TVtropes, Vasquez from Alien, Gendo Ikari from Evangelion, Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible, hamletmachine
So, anyways, you've got the leader, the second in command, the brains, the brawn, and the "chick". As a friend pointed out, this team is also really diverse. I can't stand the over-representation of white/caucasian persons in media so the team is also from various parts of the world. I have to thank my friends for helping me come up with these names, you're all so wonderful!
For anyone wondering, yes, that is insanely fine print on Hans' right thigh. It says "We don't know. He sleeps with the main character and then we stuff him in a fridge. What else are we supposed to do with him?" I could not bring myself to fail at anatomy and put him in the standard boobs/ass pose you so often see with girls. Instead you just have an over sexualized pretty boy.
Edit: Fixed Hans' chest. A lovely friend pointed out an anatomy issue that I wasn't aware of prior. I think things are still a bit off, but then again, I've never actually seen a buy with this body type with his hands about his head. All my models have been older and done pretty masculine poses. I'll have to ask a guy to pose like this the next time I find a shirtless man of similar body type.

At least I find this amusing

Part of a parody comic/movie poster I'm working on. I'm almost done, but I thought I should post a completed snippet. It's the realization of the comic idea I had back in January: a movie poster based on action films except gender reversed to show the absurdity of how women are portrayed in media. Here we have the resident BAMF of the team and by far the best layout of the lot, Himiko "Goldhammer" Arakawa. The Goldhammer part was my friend Kenny's idea.
I'm hoping at least one person gets the will not die joke in conjunction with her look (because normally girls like her do die).