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.

WINDING ROAD

Title pulled from the first bit of english that appears in the ending song used for Bakuman's (inferior) anime adaption.

Anyway! A lot of drawings tonight. Lot of comics. Lot of color (more than usual, anyway) and more comics.

First up is the last request I got from the guy who asked for the gnome and chocobo and the war penguins: A panda with a squid gun. The squid gun wasn't...well, it was hard to conceive, so it kind of became less prominent than it should have been. I offset that with the octo-zooka.


You might recall from a few months or weeks back, I had that dream where I was fighting with this long-haired guy that may or may not have been some subconscious image of myself, and I drew him up. I decided to go along and make a comic of a fight between he and I, sans the banquet hall he and I fought in in my dream.

I just got caught up in drawing the second page after I looked at the last panel on the first page. But...the swing of the other guy's sword in the fourth panel on page 2 is so off that it feels ruined.

The first page also scanned poorly. :\ Oh well...


This was actually drawn before anything else here in this post. Eventually, it turned into me, drawing myself breaking into a laugh down at the bottom. I was working off of happy vibes from hanging out with friends while contained in a bathroom with them.

And also smiling on the inside from this song.

I was listening to the opening theme of Grandia, and was reminded of its opening FMV. From there...the scenery came out all on its own.

And as always, there is only one time of day: Sunset. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER ARRANGEMENT OF EARTH AND SUN.


So, in lieu of the quarter ending, and me becoming slightly more interested in bowling, I considered how I could go about drawing a bowling comic, with all kinds of gimmicky, stupid, silly BOWLING POWERS being used. I got bored fast, and drew up fruits in business suits instead.

But then I drew this bowling comic. I liked how each panel turned out, except for the three in the bottom-left: I think the eye close-up could've used a different expression, and the bowling ball is...lopsided in that penultimate panel. I think I could excise it entirely.

Inspired from a doodle in my last update: Sarah, with an umbrella. I liked how this turned out - just a quick doodle to color.

And then characters from a friend's project that I want to make into magnets.

More of his characters. My continuing struggles with females continues as I give them giant hips or butts.

...Not one of th brighter points of my sketchbook in the bottom-right, but the left side's fairly rockin'.

Comic practice, and brainstorming for the Requiem storyline. This was inked with the intention of being colored. The only thing that really bothers me is how jarring the blue sky looks in the panels it appears in. I should've looked at more reference photos of the sky at sunset.

Because, remember: THERE IS ONLY ONE ARRANGEMENT FOR THE SUN AND EARTH.


And then I had to study for my bowling final. Yes. My vocabulary and bowling knowledge test. I figured one way to study would be to DRAW A COMIC THAT INCORPORATED ALL OF THE INFO I NEEDED.

That was impractical and stupid, but hey, I got two comic pages out of it...even if the bottom of the first page is drowned in speech bubbles and the second page has some weird angles and anatomy and perspective going on.


SO ANYWAY. 12 DRAWINGS TONIGHT.

We're up to 322 drawings total!

I should have 340 by today, though!

SO I'M ONLY BEHIND BY 18.


I can do this.

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. ._.