One Longest Way

Title pulled from the lyrics to "Distance" by Long Shot Party. (Give the music video a watch. It's entertaining, to say the least.)

Anyway. Not too much to show off this time around, but I've been doing some more playing around with sharpies and some pens that my brother brought home with him from Hawaii. Eight drawings total in today's update.


This was drawn...sometime last week. A week from today, actually. I wanted to draw something to cheer up my girlfriend while she was at work, so I drew the three most important Oresoren from Tales of Legendia. What better way could there have been? The drawing itself has nice, bold lines. I liked using the sharpie for this.

Then, earlier today, I was just doodling in the bottom half of the page, but...got lazy halfway through.

Sarah from my Rose Hero storyline. I played with the sharpie again when I drew her here. I'm pretty satisfied with how she looks in this page, except...something about the way I drew her leg and hips in the drawing of her running just seems off. Like the perspective and alignment of her legs is wrong.

This was just...well, pointless doodling. Toying with the sharpie more.

More sharpie play. I just gave up on this before too much time passed - it was starting to look terrible. The first panel does look very nice, though. I feel like I managed a good sense of action in it.

Aruna from my Rose Hero storyline. I rarely draw largely, and I also rarely draw close-ups of any characters. I gave it a shot here, using the sharpie for a lot of the lines, and...it seems like it turned out okay. Nothing too stellar, especially with the shape of the hair and the proportions of the head/face, but for once, it doesn't look like something that makes me want to die on the inside.

Also, colored Aruna looks waaaay too motherly, for some reason.

Rosa, also from Rose Hero. Playing with her design and drawing large(r) again. Something seems off about her proportions, and her hands also seem kind of wonky.


Richard, also from Rose Hero. Tried the same thing with Aruna, this time with arguably better results. The sharpie is amazing.

The drawing of him standing looks particularly impressive, I think. I stared at him and thought, "Wow, this looks really good."

This was...well, this was just for fun. So many things bother me about Aruna in this drawing - her back looks like it stretches backwards too far, her arm is a bit too long, and her hair looks like a mess.

But that aside, I did have fun drawing this. I play with ideas about Sarah and Aruna in my head.

Anyhow. I seem to be getting back into drawing more regularly. It's starting to feel a lot better, somehow.

Sky's the Limit

Update title pulled from what is presumably the opening for the anime adaption of Persona 4.

Anyway. I have no excuses. I haven't been drawing as much as I should be, so I don't have much to show for the extended period of no updates to this blog. However, I've scanned and collected what I've drawn between now and the last update, save for some trivial sketches and some...dirtier drawings. (Hahaaaaaaaa.)

WELL. UPDATE ROUTINE SET. EXECUTE:
This cross between My Little Pony and Tales of Legendia was drawn as a present for my girlfriend. The linework turned out quite nicely. And, well, even though I missed some details on Chloe's outfit (the girl sitting on the barrel), I think the picture's quite adorable.

Haha, although...I'm not sure if it's quite as entertaining to those who haven't been exposed to either of these franchises.


This sketch of Janus was sitting in pencil form for about a month before I added some ink to it, then I finally finished it up tonight - you can see some lines where I used sharpie for his linework. I think he looks pretty nice, although his arms seem a little long. And he does look...a bit plain.

Now, I'm posting some stuff here out of order, but...one night, when I was getting frustrated with drawing, I just grabbed a sharpie and started drawing things. Among the things I drew were Snake and Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid 4. I also started using my rollerball pen for small details and shading more loosely, here.

Then I snapped.

And I balled up all of my frustration into this...terrible farce of a comic page. I used the sharpie for most of the linework, then just used the rollerball for details. It was about after this that I figured I could use the sharpie a bit more frequently in my work.

This was...I forget when I drew this, but before tonight, only the top portion was filled with material - the primary cast of Atlus' latest release, Catherine, with sheep bodies. Don't ask or think too much.

I filled the bottom portion with me conversing with a gentlemanly alpaca, influenced by a real life event from yesterday at the Clark County Fair where an alpaca and I made noises back and forth to each other. Alpacas hold a special place in my heart.

Rose Hero's female cast, drawn up on July 20th. I doodled this while tinychatting with my friends, and was fairly revitalized by how nicely a lot of the drawings had turned out. In particular, Aruna in the top-left, and Sarah in the bottom-right. This drawing predates the sharpie ones.

This drawing of the faces/heads of Rose Hero's main cast predates the My Little Pony and Tales of Legendia crossover fanart at the beginning of the post. I enjoyed how these turned out. The facial features seem at least...slightly differentiated from one another.


Then this was more recent. Until tonight, this drawing of a new design of Red Adonis was just pencil. So I took my rollerball and sharpie to it, and...well, I got this. Nothing in this really bothers me except for the drawing in the bottom-right, where I think the torso is a little long...

Some few weeks ago, I got an idea for a story that incorporated RPG archetypes and concepts into its universe. This is me taking some of the ideas for characters and drawing them out. This was also the first time I tried using the sharpie instead of my brush pen to get some line variation into my drawings.

That said, the sharpie lines seem kind of jarring here.


This one turned out much better, I think. For Rudy, a tenative main character who would draw on stereotypical Japanese RPG protagonist concepts, spiky hair was a must...and let me say right now that trying to figure out how to draw spiky anime hair from the side (when it points up and juts out to the side) is really difficult for me to try and visualize spatially. But in the end, this turned out nicely.

And in closing, there was this. A long time ago, I would just listen to music and draw whatever images came to my mind as I listened to a song. This was the result of listening to "sister" by Jpop group plane. I enjoyed interspersing sharpie lines and rollerball lines in this one.

I can feel the snow in it.



That said, I feel a bit refreshed in the drawing department after tonight. Let's see what happens.

Gravity

Post title pulled from the title of Star Driver's first opening.

It's been a long time since I last updated. Over the past few weeks, (or is it, "past month?") I'd been hit with this draining, stressful sensation...a depression, I guess. During that time, I couldn't really bring myself to draw.

As a result, I didn't update. Obviously.

But as the weather's become clearer, so has my mood and mind. That's why I've got an update for you today.

This drawing of Rose Hero's cast was produced back before Spring Break hit...I drew it with the intention of practicing using different tones on each character's outfit, to see what worked best. That just didn't happen. Especially with how monstrously-disproportionate Rosa's body is.


This was drawn up...sometime last week, I think. Mostly just to show off Black Iris. I try to ignore Richard down in the bottom right.

But then each time I tried to draw, nothing but garbage came out. This is that garbage. Nothing too great here... Or at least, nothing like I wanted, anyway.

So, I figured I'd just do life drawings. As per the usual, I drew my left hand. These didn't turn out so badly, I think. Especially since I didn't let myself eat lunch that day until I'd filled the page with hands.

No lunch-deprivation technique in use here. Just drawings of my hand, plus some stuff out of the Nordstroms catalogue in my bookbag.

And just today I drew up, inked, scanned, and (sort of) touched-up this page. This page is proof of my good mood returning. The fact that I drew it, I mean.

...I can't render water at all. I need to overcome this.

I'll Take My Chances Here and Now

Title of the update pulled from the lyrics of Wild ARMS 3's english opening song.

Not much in the way of an update tonight, thanks in part to classwork drowning me over the past week or so. I did, however, have the chance to finally scan-in and edit two comic pages I scribbled-up.

In a stupid and hypocritical move, I've decided to play with tones...but I'm not so sure I'm working them right. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I'm not applying them properly at all. I am, however, satisfied with how the linework for these pages turned out. I think I'm in need of some backgrounds, though...



That's about it. I sketched-up a third page, but got bored with it.

If anything bothers me, it's that the tones I used don't really show through on these images. They're too fine, I guess. I wish the patterns of the tones showed through. It might make Red Adonis seem less...dark?

Hopefully, I'll have more like this on the way, what with break coming up.

Life, this is my life

Post name pulled from a verse out of "Hatenaki Michi" by HIMEKA.

My, it's been a while. Sure feels good after cranking out 8 pages of the rough draft of a research paper in 14 hours, the day before it's due. But now that the stress of that stupid thing's gone, I feel free to draw without worrying about it so much.

SO LET'S GET THIS GOINGGGG
Just some drawings of photos out of a hairstyle magazine given to me by a friend. Ignore the disproportionate woman on the right, as Doodle-Me is already aware of the problem. I think the faces actually turned out great, though.

More drawing from magazines because drawing people sitting around me is nerve-wracking. The old man in the top-left is fantastic, I think. And the showgirl...well, something...seems off about her. I think she's disproportionate? Something about those legs...

And now we begin with my babbling about things that only make sense to a few people: Most of the rest of the post is character designs and brainstorms for my Requiem plotline.

Glyde, pre-timeskip. I've settled on colors for his jacket except for the end and that giant folded-over collar. His shorts have changed from previous designs, and now feature those...gems.

The evolution of Hotaru's design throughout the story, beginning from the pre-timeskip period to the end of it. Her post-timeskip design seems fairly plain, though. Like her outfit needs something else to it...

General character brainstorms, plus a drawing of Janus...who looks a fair bit like Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia, now that I think about it.

Character design drafts for Stella. Her original design veered too closely to Hotaru's pre-timeskip design, so I felt the need to rework her appearance...although, it isn't as though that's helped differentiate her from Hotaru that well.

Next are comic pages. Three pages are brainstorming for story points in Requiem, mostly dealing with Janus and Glyde fighting. One other page is included in this post, but is unrelated to Requiem.
Fairly satisfied with this one...except for the second/center panel. Glyde's legs and the pose that Janus is in could have been...better positioned?

This was drawn maybe a week after that page. The first panel here probably makes for bad follow-through with the action in the final panel of the previous page, but other than that, all this page needs is some BACKGROUNDSSSSSS

Post-timeskip battle between Janus and Glyde. Besides the poorly-drawn backgrounds, this page made me realize that I need to get a grip on how visualize the neck. Just look at Janus' neck in the second and final panels. I don't think necks work that way?

And this was drawn specifically for submission into my college's art magazine. Look at that, I figured out how to use tones after X number of years! I'm satisfied with everything in this page EXCEPT for the background. Look at the floor.

Augh, my God. Look at the floor.

Anyway, these don't count toward the remaining 24 images I need to meet last year's quota.

Long Long Ago 20th Century

Post title pulled from the ending theme of Kamen Rider BLACK.

It's been a long time since I updated, huh? Well, I've only scanned in a portion of what I've drawn recently, mostly because...

...I don't really know. I've been in a strange position where I haven't felt entirely up to drawing, lately. My pencil and pens have been moving across the pages of my sketchbook, but it's an empty sensation. There's no fulfilling drive resonating with me when I draw, as of late.

Regardless, I'll show what I've scanned in so far.

Sketches of an old king, for a story idea about a legendary crown. There's a comic page where I used this guy, later on in this post. I got several comments about how nice his face looks.

Studies of handssss...

Women out of this Nordstrom catalogue I've had in my bookbag...

Worse sketches of women out of the Nordstrom catalogue in my bookbag...

Better sketches of women from the Nordstrom catalogue...

...And...a handful of different reproductions.

Bored in art lounge at college with nothing to do. What should you do?
DRAW YOURSELF DRAWING.
This looked...much better when it was penciled. I don't like the way it turned out.

The aforementioned comic page with the king in it. I liked everything in this except for that blasted last panel. The last panel is garbage.

Everything in this is garbage! The poses are so...unbearable to look at, and the foreshortening and perspective of the 2nd panel is wretched. The first one lacks a decent background. I only like the last panel in this one.

Character sketches for the Requiem storyline. This is Glyde, early-on in the story.

Glyde again, later in the story. Also with disproportionate arms. I should fix that. I blame my not paying attention to the arm length, and paying more attention to where the sleeve of his...shirt...ends.

Character sketches of Hotaru.

And character sketches of the cast of the Rose Hero storyline. Mangled terribly from my abuse of my brush pen.

SO YEAH. 13 images right there.

I'm not counting them.

I needed 24 more pages before I hit the 365 image count, right?

I won't count the last 24 unless those last 24 images are in the form of a single, continuous sequence of comic pages - a 24-page comic.