Daily Draw February and 30 Day Monster Girl Challenge

I'm doing Daily Draw and a 30 day challenge over on my tumblr. I'll be posting recaps here at the end of each week but if you'd like to follow along as I go click the "daily draw" button at the top of my blog spot.

For now, here's the start, a raven harpy.

Another attempt at Samara

Samara's been on this blog before. She's one of my favourite Mass Effect characters - which is saying something because the series is one of my most beloved things in the entire world. But I have a lot of trouble with her character model; she's basically everything I've ever wanted in a badass lady, beauty, ferocity, determination that would make a Terminator blush. and untold wisdom of a thousand year life span. She had so much potential to be perfect but her model makes her look like a sexy strawberry and does absolutely nothing to convey her complexities. I wanted to try another redesign this time playing  around with the styles worn by Asari in game and made them more battle-monk-ish to suit her. I really wish she had have looked something more like this rather than blatant fanservice for the male segments of the audience.

Oh look, colour!

I realized I hadn't drawn anything in colour since September so I rectified that. Tried a different, faster method of colouring and am quite happy.

Motoko

Rewatched Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for this first time since I was a teenager; naturally, I had to draw the Major once done.

Inktober

A thing called inktober (drawing with ink for the month of October) is happening over on tumblr so I've been doing a few ink/marker drawings. Enjoy.

More Colour Tests

Lady counterpart to yesterday's boy. I don't even know what I'm doing anymore as I've stared at my computer screen for the length of 2.5 soundtracks and I'm going to go do something else now. Like make dinner.

Quorra

Quorra from Tron Legac, 2-2.5 hours
Had difficulty with her smile and a little bit with the colours but I really liked drawing her eyes. They're so expressive.

Rachael

Spent about 2 hours last night making a first attempt at a colour portrait (only ever done black and white); big learning curve but a great experience. I used a movie frame of Rachael from Blade Runner as reference. Likeness, good; colours, not so much.

Mushroom Lady

Coloured the ink drawing I did last week in photoshop. Thinking that she's in need of becoming a sticker for my laptop some time soon. Also like the first thing I've ever drawn that I think would make a good print.

Ink

Started doing inks by hand again. I found this really fun so now all I want to do is draw things with a brush pen.

Dailies

Been doing daily costume/fashion drawings for an hour over on Tumblr. These were today's and I liked them so I thought I'd share them here.

War

War - Good Omens
Continuing the illustration series from a few weeks ago. I originally planned to either post them all at once or in pairs but they're at such random levels of completion that I'm posting them as they're done. Happy with how she turned out. A few iffy bits, but overall good (she better be after the shear number of times I redrew her).

East meets West

Another Threadless design (with a lovely typo in the title, great going, self). Please vote here!
This one's for a design competition with Loftwork, a Japanese company. I worked with what I know best, comics and fashion/costume.

Samara

Samara redesign - Mass Effect 2

I got the Mass Effect art book recently and was disappointed by the focus on the female character's sexuality in the little blurbs about the though processes behind the designs. Even in game I noticed a major shift in direction between ME1 and ME2; though ME2 had far better characterization I felt that some designs were disconnected from the character they were portraying. Samara, who's one of my favourite characters, was one of the worst in this respect. The emphasis in art book was definitely on her sex appeal and it shows.

Samara is sexy, yeah, but she's also an ascetic warrior who's almost a 1000 year old. I wanted to redesign her in a way that worked more with her character, especially her age. In game she looks younger than someone 1/10 her age just based on clothing. Gave her a simple bodysuit/light armour and a shawl for everyday wear. Shawls, to me, are the ultimate in high-class older women's wear (and Samara is the ultimate in high-class older ladies).

Modern Cameo - Punk

EDIT: changed the background colour like it a lot more now.
Another design for Threadless. Brightly coloured lasso-tool punk profile. Not sure if the colours are too bright for mass consumption, but the lasso-tool style works best with bright colours - especially when working with such a limited palette. Only 4 colours for this one: purple, hot pink, bright yellow, and yellow-green. Placement on shirt would be portrait centred on chest with the background going up towards the shoulder on one side.

Ninja mage

More from the design challenges, 'mage' was this one's theme. Stayed away from the typical robes and went with dolman sleeves and drop-crotch pants. I intended for this to be pure silhouette but it ended up a lot more detailed; also intended for a more complex layering of clothing but the pose made that a bit difficult.

Yzma

Another design challenge, redesign a famous movie or tv character. I chose Yzma from Disney's The Emperor's New Groove. In her original incarnation she looks far more like a flapper than an Incan witch/advisor. She had next to no common design elements with her fellow cast members and pretty much stuck out like a sore thumb despite being awesome.
Kept the colours and headdress (too iconic) and made her overall look fit in more with everyone else. Transitioned her gaudiness into more gold and accessories - it always seemed weird that someone so power hungry wouldn't be decked in gold. For the record, those spindly hands will haunt me for quite some time. The rest of the style wasn't too hard to emulate, but the hands!

More ladies because my blog didn't have enough drawings of women already

I have tailoring knowledge and like fancy dart placement. That is basically the purpose of this.