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.

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.

I Will Dive Into The Fire

Title pulled from lyrics to "Heavens Divide," the ending theme to Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker.

Anyway, fair handful of things this time. Been a while since I last updated, too. Eleven drawings total.

This was the brainstorming ideas for the style of clothes to be used in the Requiem storyline, as a counterpart to the male attire brainstormed at the end of the last update.

Hot on the trail of the brainstorming for general clothes were some character concepts.

And then I started listening to "Komm, Susser Todd," used from End of Evangelion. I firmly believe that it is the only song worth listening to in the event of the apocalypse. All should listen to their mp3 players and headphones as I do.

...and then Chrono Trigger material because it...well, nothing else fit down at the bottom of the page.

And then I took a break to commit to...a meager...poorly-done...single page of actual studies from nude photos.

...I...I have no excuses. ;_;


Then I began drawing things from Steambot Chronicles before being assaulted by ANGST.

...which turned out much more detailed than the Steambot Chronicles fanart.

And then the ANGST ANGST ANGST continued, with an intention to make several more pages, but nothing came of it beyond this. "What's the inside of my heart like," I asked myself. Then I realized how horribly distorted ANGST makes it.

And then I began listening to/watching clips from Code Geass' dub. One in particular got me started on this, and had me drawing it for the rest of the night.

This was brought on from reading bits about Klonoa on TV Tropes. There was a fair bit about how Klonoa, at the end of each of his games, always winds up vanishing from the world that he's saved, never to return to it.

...And I produced this.

And then I...well, the thought process is laid out here pretty clearly. I regret nothing.

This was to commemorate a refreshment of my mind.

The top half, anyway. The bottom half, and the next page, are part of an idea a friend posted in a comment to a status update on facebook...regarding me transforming into a Christmas ELF OF JUSTICE.

Please regard this page and the previous one's latter half while listening to the Viewtiful Joe henshin theme.

ANYWAY.
We have eleven drawings here.

24 more until I hit 365.

Here am I, lost and found

Title pulled from "Falling Down" by Oasis, used in Eden of the East's opening.

Anyway, eight pieces in tonight's upload. I'd have had two more, but I kept going back and forth between them, and would've taken too long to finish them in time for an update tonight.

So I figured I'd go with what I have right now.

Guess where I stopped caring in this one? No, really, just guess. Just guess.

That panel got really screwed up, so I made it NEVER GOOD. Saddens me a bit, since I liked the water and shell in the second and third panels.

(Also, ANARCHYYYYYYY.)

Holiday angst aside, I wanted to try get that orange-and-black color that urban areas have during the night. Sort of hit-or-miss here.

Also, I am at a loss as to how to render Christmas trees.

More angst, only primarily in blue and white. Don't really like the first panel in the bottom half.

Both this page and the last one went for almost a week without being colored or inked. I fixed that last night.

And designs for the Requiem storyline! Toying with color ideas and designs for Glyde and Hotaru.

Doing the same for Janus. Apologies in advance for the phallic electro-sword.

Note that all of these include a post-timeskip age.

This originally was going to be me playing with perspective and foreshortening (see the first drawing) but it eventually turned into quick colored sketches of Glyde.

Electric hands.

Ideas for scenery and setting. An ancient mall, partially buried underground, being used as a town. I thought it would be cool: imagine, each area that would normally be a store gets converted into a small living space.

I think it would work out awesomely in a post-apocalyptic world.

And then brainstorming for clothing/fashion/etc. in the world of Requiem. I've got another page of this that I'm working on.

...it's kind of tough, trying to get a consistent look for it all.


BUT ANYWAY.

Eight drawings tonight.

We're up to 330 drawings total.

Screw how many I should have.

I need 35 more to make my quota by the end of the year.

I'LL MAKE IT.