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. ._.

ARE YOU READY TO THE ACTION?

Sorry about the title. "Modern Strange Cowboy" has been playing in my head all day.

Anyway. It's been a long time since I've updated, hasn't it? I'd wanted to keep drawing after the convention was over, but I seemed to be in some sort of mental shock after incidents piled-up on each other immediately following the convention.

BUT REGARDLESS. MY GREAT REVIVAL IS AT HAND.

So yeah. This first drawing was just playing with designs of characters from my Rose Hero storyline. It was...the only drawing/page I completed in about a week. Just used a rolling ball pen for it.

Pictured above is how Tanner punishes himself for moping about and being unproductive. Notice that this drawing is dated ten days after the previous one. It was the first time Tanner tried to do linework with a brush after a period of mental shock, and the effects of it show.

LOOK AT THOSE MESSY LINES, OH MY GOD.

I think this was actually penciled prior to the convention, but only inked in the time following the previous drawing. I didn't want to use black to fill in space in the pages except for a few elements...so I used a black color pencil instead. Eh. So-so results.

This...this page was an oddball. It started as more world-building for my Requiem storyline, but...then it turned into fanart.

It's also the only bit of color I've used in months. That should worry me, right?


More world-building and brainstorming for the Requiem storyline. Brush was used for linework on everything but the mechanical cylinder. I enjoyed how the poses in the two panels in the top-right turned out.

MOAR WORLD-BUILDAN AND BRAINSTORMAN

HORY SHET! I still do life studies? I really should still do life studies...especially since they fill up my sketchbook faster, and I can reach my quota faster.

I still think the fully-extended hand looks a little odd. That was the only one that gave me trouble.

See that guy with the long hair? I fought him in a dream I had, and it compelled me to try and draw him. See those weird swords? We fought each other with those swords. See that weird party setting, filled with handfuls of partygoing guests? We fought each other there.

It was an awesome dream.


And this is a character sheet for my Requiem storyline, for Glyde, the main character. Here's to hoping that the penciled notes aren't too faded. I scanned in the penciled version of this page yesterday, and tried coloring it, so I may post that in the next update.

So yeah.

That's...nine drawings. Wow. That's..not much.

That brings me up to 229 drawings total.

...

I should have 270 by today, though.

I'M BEHIND BY 41 DRAWINGS?!



OH GOD I AM SO BEHIND JESUS CHRIST WHY AM I SO UNPRODUCTIVE