Drawings-a-go-go, baby!

Holy hamster crackers, Batman, I'm updating this twice in one week!

There's even color in one of the images! Oh my, how unusual.

From Friday: Rose Hero's main cast, with the spotlight on Sarah dancing. I colored this in some pretty poor lighting, so I'm not entirely sure how well that it turned out...

I really liked how her pose turned out, even if her arms may be a little too long. The one in the back seems to have an abnormally-long wrist.

Design doodles of Black Iris. I'm still trying to get her appearance closer to her original concept sketch that my friend provided me so many years back.

I also changed the scythe's appearance, among other things. No black/shading for the sake of me being able to see folds and the like without screwing things up royally.

Design doodles of Sero, the main character. In the past, I'd draw his hair according to a mental formula, so it'd always have a rather inorganic look... I'm seeing how things look if I ignore that voice in my head and just draw it without that formula in mind. (Something like, five points of hair in the front, five in the back, or such...)

I think he looks more lively and flowy than I've ever drawn him in the past.

...but that drawing of him with his hand outstretched looks Hell-weird. My grasp of perspective still needs work. (Haha. The hand looks weird. "Grasp of perspective." Hahaha...)

More scene brainstorming and comic practice. Now with marginally-more backgrounds than past updates. I had penciled this back on Thursday, but never got around to inking it until tonight. The fifth panel's really all that bothers me, since Aruna's hand against her cheek is...I just didn't draw that right.

Useless trivia?: I redrew the last panel three times before settling on a pose for Sero.

Alright. Four drawings today, and we're bumped-up to 264 drawings total.

I should have 297 by today, though.

So I'm behind by 33. That's one less than before, but it's still progress toward catching up.


Haha...Early into the blog, I counted any drawing that I did for a day as one single drawing. That changed into "one page of sketchbook or one page of drawings from anywhere" equals one drawing toward my count. Makes it more difficult, but it feels good.

Monsters, Demons, and Graphic Design

Interesting update with a variety of things, today.

...some schoolwork's mixed in here as well. Although, I don't know if that's worth much toward my count.

Anyway, kicking things off: I had penciled this drawing of the main cast of Rose Hero in their superhero alter-egoes over a week ago, and never got to inking it. Eventually, I got around to it...after erasing Red Adonis from the top-left corner and redrawing Black Iris (top-center) to better reflect her original concept art.

It looks...pretty nice.

So I drew those monsters last week, yeah? This page started off with the intent to draw nonsensical fantasy weapons, but then I began listening to Shin Megami Tensei battle music, and started sketching that snake guy down there.

He looks awesome, I think...even if the front of his skull is apparently shaped like the pope's hat.

Another monster and some Halloween-themed doodles. With Jack and Jill, the pumpkin children, I'd wondered if they'd look more creepy if I'd made the inside of their jack-o-lanterns black, with only glowing dots for their eyes...but I figured if I left that space white, I could play with either look.

As for that monster in the bottom-right...The basis for it was a man's body with the legs and arms twisted/bent backwards. As for its tail...

...well, I did say the basis was a man's body.

So now we have four images of sketches for my latest assignment for graphic design.

The assignment was to produce four types of imagery for three different qualities about ourselves. We needed one literal, concrete, iconic, and abstract image each to communicate each of those qualities. The qualities I'd selected were "Curious," "Unusual," and "Spirited."

...Most of the sketchwork here was for the concrete imagery of those three.

More work for mostly concrete imagery. Some ideas for abstract for sketched at the bottom half.

Mostly iconic imagery.

This was retooling some earlier iconic and concrete imagery. After I scanned the images I decided on, I spent a while cleaning them up or altering them in GIMP.

Altogether, I'm counting these four as three images...since the first and last images in this little selection don't have much content.



And then, with that out of the way, I got to work on more monsters. The female monster in the top-left was drawn while under the influence of the "Bloody Destiny" track from the remake of Persona. Everything else just flowed out afterwards...although, the tophat dinosaur is based on the same idea used in the iconic imagery exploration page from earlier.

And then we arrive at today. I just began doodling nonsense, and...well, nonsense is what we got. Then there was some empty space left over, and I filled it with super-deformed Mega Man and Bass.

That said, I began wondering: I rely a whole lot on how detailed my sketchwork is before I ink. I'm considering trying to draw with rougher sketches with less detail in them, then inking over that from the get-go. If that makes any sense. I'm going to be experimenting.

ANYWAY. WHATEVER.

We've got eight drawings total today.

That bumps us up to...260 drawings.

But by today, I should have had...294 drawings.

I'm behind by 34, but that's a lot better than being behind by 40.

Monsters and Flowers?

Look at that! Updating again.

More Rose Hero material sprinkled with machines and monsters.

This page began as an effort to draw someone wearing chainsaw pants. Yes, chainsaw pants. Eventually, I decided the design for the chainsaw pants looked unattractive and stupid, so I erased it and drew a pizza cutter robot instead.

I actually drew the robot's pilot into its design fairly well, too. I liked that.

This followed after I finished the pizza cutter robot page while I listened to this song from Chrono Cross. Eventually, it turned into scene brainstorming and practice for Rose Hero. The only thing that really bothers me about this page besides the lack of backgrounds is Richard's hand in the first panel. It looks like it's about to fall off.

...not that that would be out of place in this scene, mind you.

Also, I got lazy and used pencil for toning certain areas. My apologies for cheapness.

The three girls from Rose Hero's main cast, from left to right: Rosa, Aruna, and Sarah. I liked how this turned out when I penciled it, and I was afraid of screwing it up when I inked it, so it took me a while to get around to that. (I think I actually finished this one at 2:30 AM this morning...Oh well.)

The page looked pretty empty still, so I drew a small two-panel scene of Red Adonis catching a giant steel ball with his hands down below.

Yesterday, I had a few hours to myself, and decided to draw monsters, beginning with the figure with the three dragon heads. I'm incredibly proud of the mask with multiple hands/arms jutting out from it. Even if it...is far too similar to the shadows from Persona 3. The dizzy drill, the column with multiple eyes, looks nice to me, too.

I continued later that day by drawing out an idea for a scene that popped into my head regarding an invasion of aliens made of...some form of energy, smashing into the Earth en masse in the form of a meteor shower.

Then I drew up that wonderful creature to the right of the page.

This one I finished only moments ago...only out of the desire to fill a sketchbook page before midnight because I've been lethargic all day long. I wanted to draw the Rose Hero cast, so I went about doing that after doodling the robot and ship at the top of the page.

I should play around with different ways to render these guys, though...


WELL, ANYWAY.

Six drawings today.

252 total.

Should have 288 by today, though.

I'm behind...by 36.

I'm stil catching up. I'm still making progress.

APPRIVOISE!

I'm...I swear I'm keeping up with the work at hand.

Let's get the reels rolling.

This page hadn't been inked for several days after it was penciled. Well, the sketch of Aruna, over on the right, was inked quickly, but the little montage on the left hadn't been inked for a while. I'd scanned it in while penciled, and began coloring it...but then I decided to ink it, then scan it in for coloring.

Aaaaand here's the result. I learned, in the process, to not let myself near paint programs ever again without first practicing and experimenting more with the paint program in question. (PARADOX MUCH?) I spent maybe...7 or 8 hours, mostly on Saturday, coloring this. The way everything is shaded just looks...bleh.

BUT LOOK! COLORS. I'm proud of myself for...sticking to this self-assigned assignment for such a long time without giving up? (In the event that the thumbnail isn't linking to an image, click here.)

Yes, I'm counting this as a separate drawing from its linework.

Brainstorming and playing with the characters for Rose Hero. It's a lot like toying with action figures. I think it turned out fairly well. I used the brush only for people/objects in the foreground, and used my pilot pen for most of the rest of the lines. Sorry if the handwritten text is...horribly unreadable.

Character designs for some villains in the story. I realized I hadn't really updated these two in a while. Cronie's face needs to be rendered differently, so that it isn't solid black on his paper bag face.

More of the two from above. A demonstration of Cronie's power to manipulate paper into whatever shapes he wants. The third panel...was supposed to be the formation of the Paper Dragon's head/mouth, but I think that didn't come across too well.

Again, Cronie's drawn-on paper bag expressions seem...distractingly-bold.


OH GOODNESS. STUDIES. I knew I could still do those.

Now why do I like that sketch of Kubo Tite's face the most on this page? I mean, the woman in the upper-left is nice, but...

SO. Six drawings today.

That's 246 drawings in total.

I -should- have 284 by today, though.

So I'm behind by... 38.

I'm making..very slow progress. I'll catch up soon.

Roses and Heroes

Haha, I...I have at least one drawing to account for all the days that've passed since I last posted, but I've spent (and will be spending) a little longer on one drawing I didn't include in this update.

That said, there's a lot of content for Rose Hero in this update.

Originally started as an action scene, after I'd drawn Sero's face in the first panel. My brain stopped working for ideas for an action scene, and then it turned out like this. I'm...fairly proud of how the last panel looks. I struggle to draw people sitting down on things.

That same night, I had trouble drawing people in poses that looked organic and flowy, so I resolved to draw robots instead while listening to music from Zone of the Enders 2. I think it turned out fairly well. I enjoy drawing robots. >_>

...But that one that's just a torso looks...kind of...sexual?

More brainstorming and practice for the Requiem storyline. I planned to draw a more natural, jungle/amazon-esque landscape with a waterfall at its center, but the waterfall instead turned into the water flowing out from a broken, ruined dam.

I inked this mostly with the .02 micron pen. For what it's worth, I think it looks nice. I rarely use a whole page for a single drawing...I should change that, soon.

This is me throwing up comic panels onto a sketchbook page while vaguely maintaining some semblance of the plot I have written down in word documents. I like the expressions here, even if I more-or-less half-assed everything on this page. Dialogue included.

This is me still vomiting comic panels onto sketchbook pages. I started sketching poses for Sero/Red Adonis at the bottom of the page when I began to become more aware of the fact that I still struggle a great deal with depicting people moving into the foreground. How that translates into action poses, I'll never know.

I do like the panel in the bottom-left, though.

A few days ago, I recorded a mock introductory narration to a story I'd concocted in my head only 30 seconds prior, titled "Star Ranger X." It had a really simple and straightforward, childish feel to it, and I really wanted to draw up designs for it, so...here we are.

Do you see that mechanical star, and how it transforms into a STAR ROBOT? Despite how it looks like it may have been torn out of Dexter's Laboratory, I quite like it.

So, anyway. Six drawings here.

Brings us up to 240 drawings total.

I should have 279 drawings by today, though.

I am still behind by 39.

FFFFFFFFFFF-- MUST WORK HARDERRRRRRR