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.

Late and Lame

I UPDATED AGAIN.

...Not that I particularly like most of what I've drawn over the past few days.

This page started to be filled after coming off of the Shovel Knight high, but then went into concept sketches for Garlic Gun.

More Garlic Gun: Concept sketches for Count Crow. I remain at a loss as to how to go about giving a vampire with stupid-ridiculous SERAPH HAIR an aesthetically-pleasing "super form."

Character doodles related to another project...and the proportions are off on the first one. :|

More character doodles related to the same project. I'm actually quite pleased with how these look. The dancing figure on the left, in particular. The brush gives me nice line quality...when I'm not being stupid with it.


And these were drawn whilst staring at photos of cosplayers and seagulls off of Flickr. Except for the girl in the bottom-right.
Garlic Gun sketches and a demon. The ox-drawn cart down there is a wonderful idea that popped up into my head while watching Courage the Cowardly Dog.

And this...well, this was from a variety of things. Matthew Patel's entrance in Scott Pilgrim influenced me heavily after I was exposed to his display of MYSTICAL POWERS in the movie the other day. (And I hate Namco-Bandi for making stupid localization choices regarding certain franchises.)


Now, these last two are sketches I made while in dry, scorching heat at the park downtown. The first one I started and finished while at the park, but the second I managed only to pencil a rough sketch. I finished the drawing in ink just tonight. (Using both the rough pencil sketch and my memory.) Both were drawn on full pages of a sketchbook much smaller than the one that the rest of my drawings are from, so I'll count these as half a drawing each.

So...in total, that's eight drawings.

That boosts me up to 205 total drawings.
I should have 227 by today, though.

...So I'm behind by 22. Still. :|