Daily Draw best of days 12-20

I finally caught up on my daily draw. I drew them wildly out of order since I wanted to wait until the 14th for incubus/succubus and also because I was really behind on them so order stopped having any meaning. I was just finally almost caught up last week when I had two 10 hour shifts this past weekend. I did five of them in the past 27 hours and two in a few hours on Tuesday so I'm pretty frazzled.

From top to bottom: day 19 - dullahan, day 18 - cyclops, day 16 - alien, day 17 - ghost, day 13 - reptile, day 15 - true monster, and day 14 - incubus/succubus

Daily Draw February days 2-11

Days 3 and 6 were bust so they're not being posted here.
From top to bottom: day 2 - centaur, day 4 - naga, day 5 - mermaid, day 7 - plant, day 8 - zombie, day 9 - insect, day 10 - demon, day 11 - robots

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.

Postcards

Liz from my webcomic for promotional postcards I'll be sending out over the next few weeks in hopes of getting some freelance illustration gigs.

One of my biggest pet peeves in any narrative including robots/androids/AIs is the whole SYNTHETIC LIFE WANTS ONLY TO DESTROY ORGANIC LIFE that is pretty much the biggest mainstay of the genre. Liz, as a result is pretty fond of plants and a large portion of her character arc is trying to connect to organic life and further her own consciousness via her continued interaction with others.

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.

More mask people

Person really, not plural.

Buckram hat

Photos of my fourth, and most complex hat from my millinery class (one and two are for my parents and they check this blog frequently; three is ugly and won't be posted). The crown and upper brim are turquoise silk layered with black organza, the underside and hatband are black silk, and the hat is lined with warm purple with matching grosgrain. Roughly 30 hours went into this hat and it fits a 24" head (I have a massive head).

Fun fact: buckram, the base material, loses its shape when wet so this hat can never be caught in the rain or else it will be ruined. Yet somehow these are the hats worn by the English at garden parties. I will never understand that.

Final assignment

My final assignment! I got some really great feed back, so I'll make those changes for when these pages are actually in proper use... which brings me to exciting news. I'll be starting up a weekly webcomic called Making of an Android in the new year. These pages take place near the end of the first chapter after lots of character development leading up to Liz's breakdown. I chose to do these for my assignment as I felt they worked best for what was asked, and frankly, it was lots of fun to get into the meat of the comic.

I'll post a link for anyone interested once the site is up and running with the first page.

Mask people

I forgot to post these guys over here! I really liked drawing that little guy that I'm using as my icon everywhere so I did more. I'm thinking I might do a whole bunch and make them into a zine. I'm planning on doing some shows in the new year like Canzine and maybe Fanexpo if I can get a table ahahahahaha I just looked up how much Fan Expo tables are. Nope.

Week 4 comics!

Week 4 assignment: 8 panels/1page max, an argument between your character and a person they hate with an emphasis on dialogue. 

Tried a different panel layout and actually used real text for my text bubbles. So many text layers. Elizabeth/Liz take after their father, if it wasn't obvious. It's the reason why her father won't look at her. She looks too much like him and is nothing like his baby girl. Her mother, meanwhile, just dropped off the deep end when their replacement daughter started growing a personality of her own.

Edit: Made some changes suggested by my professor to make the text and panels flow a bit better. I'm going to keep challenging myself with page layouts. Hopefully I'll pick up how to do lettering better along the way....

Even more ink

Bunch of ink drawings from last night's drawing session. The little fattie in the middle is now my icon for both this blog and my tumblr blog.

More comics

My second assignment: the death of a character in 1 page/8 panels, no words, only pictures. It ended up as a joint death scene as the only way I could see Liz choosing to die (as a robot she's essentially immortal so long as she can keep herself in good repair) was if her partner, Sike, died.
I had more trouble with this one than the last since I haven't drawn these two in a long time and Sike got a gender swap since I last drew him/her (and she's old here; man I'm such a masochist). So both of them are horribly off model and I suck at fine line work. Whatevs.

Comics

3 page in 4 days! I love being healthy!

My Alma Mater offers all recent graduates a free course in their continuing studies school so I'm now taking a class on comics (Yay!).  This is for my first assignment, a day in the life of one of your own characters in 24 panels or less. I thought I'd just do rough pencils and some tone here and there but I ended up doing more than that. Still fairly rough, but I'm trying to be less of a perfectionist so I get things done.

P.1 might need some explanation; Amelia grew up and was born in a brothel. As a young woman she came into a large sum of money and used part of it to buy said brothel to ensure that those unfortunate enough to end up there, like her mother, would be well looked after. She visits almost every day; the time she spends there goes towards paying off the contracts of those under her care (she cannot buy the contracts outright so she bends the rules by charging herself high fees to see each person there).

A pretty personal post

So I've been sick for the last year and a half. I started writing a comic about it a month ago before going in for intravenous iron therapy (I had a persistent and severe iron deficiency). Of course, right as I finally broke down and wrote out something to get rid of my angst and anxiety regarding the last year and a half of my life something actually worked for a change and I'm healthy again. I got a clean bill of health on Wednesday; I spent the first half hour crying/laughing hysterically and have teared up several times since then. I finally have my life back.

This comic feels silly to post now that I'm healthy again, but I'm posting it online anyways as a kind of memento to the last year and a half.

Colour for a really old sketch

Finally got around to colouring a sketch from last summer. Tried changing up my colouring style and colour choices.

Clothing ideas

Clothing ideas for myself, the first from a month ago and the second from today. I have a lot of fabric and it could use some culling. The green vest, black top, and simple black light jacket are musts.

Hats!

I started a millinery class on Monday and am now trying to design the 5 hats I'll be making over the course of the semester. I've figured out one thus far, the most complex and 4th due, a buckram fabric covered hat. I'm trying to work primarily with fabrics and notions I already own (to cull the masses) so I'll be making it out of raw silk (turquoise and black) with a sheer black fabric covering the turquoise. Likely lined with a dark grey.

More fancy punks

My drawing method is now officially 1. try to draw something, 2. have it turn into a bunch of sour-faced punks. I'm not typing out what it says behind them here because this is my "attempt at being professional blog".
The guys's hands are easily the best hands I've ever drawn; that is, however, outweighed by the fact that his boots are the worst boots I've ever designed.

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.