You Are My Only Shooting Star

Today's post title has been pulled from the ending song to Star Driver, "Cross Over."

ANYHOW. Eight drawings tonight. That's two or three less than I wanted, but...well, I dunno. Might have to do with me using color in almost everything. May have taken up more time...

So anyway. First three drawings are from photos pulled off of Flickr. The last color pair came out of a Nordstroms catalogue I'd been carrying with me for a long while.


And then I kept using the Nordstrom's catalogue, and bastardized proportions and the female form. The only drawing I like on this page is the one on the far right. The rest look like horrible monsters.
Oh, right. Remember the guy I talked about in my last post, who requested the WAR PENGUIN? He requested a garden gnome riding a chocobo last...wednesday, I think. This one turned out nicely. I should draw larger more often.

And then this. You know the Giga Drill Break attack from Gurren Lagann? I wanted to draw a parody of it using Mega Man for a while, and...then this. Only thing I don't like is the placement of the second speech bubble. It should be closer to panel 3, I think.

This was mostly drawing from photos off of Flickr, although I kind of screwed both drawings up, anyway...Gave me a chance to play with colors, too.

This page started with me asking myself, "How do the faces I draw faces look if I try to draw them larger?" And then it quickly turned into, "Oh God, this is horrifying, I'm going to draw a tiny night scene and play with colored pencils."

AND THE ONLY COMPLETELY BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE. This was mostly used for brainstorming designs for "Gods." That, and trying out different faces.


And this was for brainstorming a story idea I had tonight. I leave it chronicled in my sketchbook and this blog for future reference. I also marveled at the semi-passable "snowy mountain at night" in at the top of the page.

So...eight drawings. Last I checked, we were at 302 drawings.

We have now reached 310 drawings total.

I should have 332 by today, though. I'm behind by 22.

...There's only so much time until the end of December. ._.

King of Solitude

Post title pulled from the name of a personal favorite of Chihiro Onitsuka's songs. (Warning for a video of the song that automatically plays on that page.)

Anyway! Lots of images, tonight. Most of them are a result of work for a contest being run by Capcom for Mega Man Legends 3... and I mentioned it in my last update. Read it there. I got my design finalized, and here it is!

The Kafer...Kaefer...Bohrer. It taught me that I don't know how to use paint programs to color anything.


And here we've got details on how it looks on the bottom and top, how its legs work...I had fun thinking these things up.


Here, in diagrams A through G, I've got doodled the mecha's various attacks...plus how it uses its legs to crawl up walls and walk around on the ceiling.

So in the process of designing that thing, I took the first design I sketched up in my last update, and began modifying it. The design I began work on right after that is pictured here. I gave the mecha two drills, and a set of turrets/guns on its underside. (Gun udders? Gun udders.)

I kept working on it... but when I looked back to the original design I drew, I scrapped this "version 2" update to the design, and modified its original design to produce the final "version 3" design.

This page had ink-drawn doodles of the mecha's attacks, and leg detail of version 2, but...neither was used. The leg extension illustration here seems...more detailed than version 3's.

So, besides that, I've got some material I've drawn for Rose Hero. I realized that I didn't have much in the way of designs for the mechanical enemies that I want the heroes to fight, so I drew some up one day before working on version 2's design.

Ideas for the police in the city that Rose Hero takes place in...amongst other things.

Sketches and ideas for Van, another Rose Hero character. There's also a possible doodle here for his "home."

Scene brainstorming, brush and comic practice...Rosa's face in Panel 3 got screwed-up when I tried to render the eye on the right side. I also didn't plan anything out beyond the first four panels, which lead to an awkward scene, I think.

"Wow, I can't draw action poses. It's tough to draw the moment of impact, or the moment after an attack." That's what I thought, then I drew this.

And then I hastily began drawing this just to fill a page. I like the weird, creepy guy in the top-right of the page, there. His gesture pleases me. The sequence of images in the bottom-left are what I do as I read stupid things on the internet.

And this...this is a War Penguin. It came about when someone at college asked me to draw a War Penguin riding a Panda. The penguin turned out well, but then...I couldn't remember what the Hell a panda looks like. I messed the panda up, but I like everything else, including the Kiwi-riding War Penguin.

ANYWAAAAY, counting the two attack illustration images as one drawing, I've got fourteen drawings for today.

So, that brings us up to...302 drawings.

I should have 325, though. So I'm behind by 23.

I'm getting there. Catching up slowly...

And you will find the trust, only if we walk as one

Post title pulled from the lyrics to the track, "Joey and Heroman," from...well, Heroman.

I'm making progress with this update. Three drawings ahead of the daily quota, which means three more towards not being behind!

Although, haha, I actually posted this, then as I'm editing it right now, I'm typing the usual text in. I just wanted the original post time to be kept in the post.

Anyway, the first two drawings, this one and the next, involve a contest Capcom's running for Mega Man Legends 3. Essentially, it's designing a mech that'll be used by the game's antagonists, the Bonne family, as they fight Mega Man. They even provided some context for the mech, too: It'll drill into the area where it's fought, there'll be water in that area...and some other bits.

So I got caught-up on the drill part. The first one I drew is that caterpillar-looking mech up top. I'm not entirely sure how it would attack, unless it can stand on its hind legs and have its drill feet pop forward into you as you run around it.

The second one that resembles a pirate monkey with a gun-pacifier and drill wolverine claws...well, I got stuck thinking of how it would move, and it lacks feet/wheels.

And the next two I drew up had more drills. They don't feel very Bonne family-ish, though. The one up top came second, and had a snake-like body that it moved with. A giant drill backpack is on its back.

The one below moves on treads and has two giant drills that can open up to act as cannons. The frog mouth at the front raises up to reveal a place where the Bonne family can taunt Mega Man.

This was drawn before either of the mecha designs: They're just design and expression practice for Rose Hero's cast. Rosa's design is still kind of up in the air, since I don't know what to do with her hair or face.

And this was...just doodling and practicing. I brought my brush back out, but its bristles kept fraying as I inked my sketches. As a result, the line quality in a lot of places is much different from what I had desired.

But then when I used the brush later, it started to behave the way I wanted it to. Under the influence of certain sequences from Panty Stocking and Garterbelt, I felt compelled to try draw the female form stylistically. The results are...somewhat chaotic.

And that was supposed to be a swimsuit. Not some...weird dominatrix outfit. Ugh, oh God.

This was sketched up after I'd drawn the robots from my last post on the blog, but I never inked it until last night, and finished it this morning. I wanted to try a falling/flying action sequence several times in the past, and I finally re-attempted it here.

Mixed results. The last "panel" with Red Adonis and Rosa, in the bottom-right, wasn't planned too well, what with Rosa's legs being cut off by the panels preceding it...

And this started as doodles of Akumetsu. However, after being influenced by Bartender's ending song, I started drawing that bar scene. Used the brush again, and...I think it looks pretty good.

Seven drawings in tonight's update.

That bumps us up to 288 drawings total.

But I should have 317 drawings by today.

I'm behind by 29. I'm getting there.

Do what I want, and I'll do it my way

Title pulled from the lyrics to Sonic Colors' theme song.

Anyway. Only seven in this update, but I figure I'll get them out of the way that way the next update doesn't take so long.

This is the drawing that sits on the last page of the sketchbook that I'd been using since mid-July. I used the brush for everything but the last drawing that I threw-together because I wanted to finish that page off. Pictured along the top are the three protagonists from the stories I've given the most time to lately.

...Yes, I'm that self-absorbed that I draw myself like this. The narcissism is practically bleeding through my ink.

And then I finally filled the first page of that sketchbook, filling it completely. And hey, look! Hands. Not that the first hand on the left is any good, though.

And then I christened a new sketchbook with this drawing, doodling ideas for Vampires, mostly. I really liked how the first of those three comic panels turned out.

And this one went untouched while I worked on a report for two days. I returned to the page while using a dipping pen tip that I hadn't made use of in months.

And I loved the line quality it gave me.

And this...just ignore that second panel. It turned out terribly. The pose I nailed down for Red Adonis in the bottom panel, with the sword out, looks nice if you ignore the disproportionately-long arms.

Just pay attention to the biological abomination and the Squid Mage on the right.


Messing around with the crow tip dipping pen for the greater amount of the page. I liked the expressions on Sero and Rosa's faces up top, and the pose that Aruna's lying down in over at the middle of the page.

...Richard, down at the bottom-left, just looks...wrong. Oh well, can't say I...didn't try.

And this is just brainstorming for mecha ideas for use in Rose Hero.

Chances are that I'll be drawing a lot of robot ideas soon, since Capcom recently announced a contest to design a machine that'll be featured in Mega Man Legends 3. Considering that the majority of my robot designs are heavily influenced by Mega Man Legends, I think this...works out quite well.

So anyway. Seven drawings, yeah?

That bumps me up to 281 drawings total.

I should have 313 drawings by today, though.

So I'm behind by...32. No progress made on catching up with this update.

Just means I have to get into gear even more.

Under The Radar, I'm Reaching For the Sky

Title pulled from the lyrics to Sengoku Basara's opening theme.

Homework getting in my way. Homework stopping me from drawing more and catching up.

OH WELL.
Scene brainstorming and comic practice. Despite the building not exactly being...clean in terms of line quality, I like the way it looks. Also, multiple angles! I'm getting somewhere.

Just scribbles and doodles. There's more Capcom in this page than there is Sega. I've never been good at fanart, as I've said before, and Sonic is...kind of tough to draw. I can't figure his eyes out, and I keep giving him wonky expressions half the time. So much blue, though.

Quick sketches and brainstorming for villain designs. I should take a look at military uniforms, or something, and revisit these ideas.


More scene brainstorming and practice. I have a really hard time trying to depict action, which is what started me on drawing this page up...then the quality goes right down to Hell. That aside, I like the way the first panel turned out. I think the impact of the lead pipe comes across well.

I was listening to the final boss track from No More Heroes, "We Are Finally Cowboys," when I drew the first part of this page. That particular track always made me envision a scene like that - everything painted orange from the sunset, the hero riding valiantly atop a motorcycle...

Anyway, my head was still stuck on depicting action, so that birthed the rest of the page.

Brainstorming and design sketches for Rose Hero's villain. His hands look kind of weird in the bottom-center sketch.


Design ideas for the cowboy I'd drawn up several times before. The two bottom poses were drawn with loose, undetailed pencilwork, so they're...kind of off.

Many of these poses were drawn with the same procedure.

This was penciled weeks ago, and the page actually had a full sequence of panels on it before. Wanting to fill this sketchbook up completely, and not wanting to go with what I penciled before, I erased most of the panels and filled the rest of the space with doodles...only the bottom-right one being what I felt satisfied with.

This was penciled a week or so back, too. The strange thing about it is that as I was penciling it, I was instant messaged by a Knives cosplayer.

...I think it's safe not to ask anything about this one.

SO YEAH. That's ten drawings in today's update.


That bumps us up to 274 drawings total.

I'm supposed to have 306 by today.

I'm behind by 32. I could be making larger jumps in how much I'm catching up.