Rowan

Here's a clean version of page 4. It's my favourite thus far so I decided to post a clean version here. I'm pretty sure every single panel of Rowan is off-model, but who's checking? 

Also, consistent light sources? HA. Ghosts don't follow the laws of physics....

More concept work

Been busy this week. I haven't been drawing much (that I want on this blog, mostly Rowan pages); I've been slowly working on/thinking about an essay for my Environmental Ethics class. Lots of fun. I think it could very easily be turned into a thesis and I'm now seriously thinking about something in Environmental Studies for my grad work. Anyways, I've also been thinking about the next comic story I'd like to work on. Here's a new design.

Sike (working name) - Heart of the Self
Inspirations - Finder, punk styles
Today and yesterday
New addition to the Heart of the Self cast (I think this story needs a better name), Sike, an electronics expert and robot mechanic who Liz befriends later in the story. Liz finds it funny that when his hair is down they have almost the same hairstyle; Sike does not approve.
I'll be posting environment sketches/designs as they get worked on. The story is a retake on traditional fairytales; the princess is Liz, a robot girl trying to figure out who and what she is, and instead of being in a land of castles and medieval yore, it's set on a cliff-side where the buildings are part of the natural landscape. It's an environmentally-orineted sci-fi fairytale, I guess.

This will never be finished

I lied. I've been stuck on this one for a long time so I thought I'd at least post what's done.

I don't remember where I got the texture, somewhere on dA, but I cannot find it again. There's so much more detail work to be done, but I'm having trouble with balance; the feet, clothes/cloth, and background all need patterns, all of which I'm determined to do on my own. I fixed a lot of proportion/angle issues and changed the line colour to make things pop better. Still, lots of problems....

More Rapunzel boys

Coloured! About 2 hours with photoshop, I'm slow today and groggy. Clearly backgrounds are not my forte. I need to think of them in the sketch phase or they're shit. Ah well. Anyways, back to midterm hell!

Rapunzel Boys

Keeping my word (for once) I drew a pair of Rapunzel-based boys. Enjoy!

First one, more or less the boy version of the girl posted last night. I was going to do him as a kid with dreadlocks and then I vaguely remembered Rapunzel being blond. Then I said fuck it and drew...

this kid. More of a boy-ish silly thing. I like him. I kind of want to draw him more now. I might colour one or both if I have time, which is quickly becoming sparse. YAY four research papers in two weeks and lots of drawing left for comics! Oh joy.

Sketches

Drew a coupl'a sketches tonight. Laides, as always. I really need to get in the habit of drawing more men. I've been drawing traditionally a lot more lately since I tend to draw better sketches/base work by hand whereas colours are easier in digital. I miss the feeling of getting a good drawing out by hand quickly. Takes so much longer and is so much sloppier digitally.

Inspirations - a moth picture in one of today's Cracked articles, NorthernBanshee, I've loved her fashion sketches based on bugs for a long time, but I never thought I'd do one of my own until I fell in love with a golden moth

Tonight, pencil, 10min

BAMF moth-lady in a BAMF chair, need I say more? She'll likely be coloured later.

Tonight, pencil, 10min

Ran out of space for her legs. Ahh! Such a bad habit I thought I got rid of when I was a teenager, alas. Basically a Rapunzel-ish girl, started with her hair and then turned into this. I think it would be interesting to do such a feminine fairytale girl as a boy, but that's for another day. I might work on this idea more later. And by might I mean possibly right now.

Ghost fix

I wasn't pleased with the last post. It was very amateur and boring. I think this is closer to what I want. Added a layer of colour to make things pop. Still not working perfectly, but then again, my best work is quick. Once I start messing around with things they get ugly. :/