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This
image is sorta inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story The Snow Queen.
This guy does have a story behind him, which is not entirely Snow Queen
related, which I plan to tell someday. But for now, I rather like
how this came out. ^_^ |
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This
was me practicing working in black and white, as well as test-driving the
new pens Saki
bought me in the States (thanks Saki! ^_^) It didn't come out too
bad, considering how little practice I've had using a brush pen.
By the way, this is the same guy from that awful 'no-name' cg in the oubliette. |
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I
was one night suddenly overtaken by the urge to draw a character with weird
hair, and color it with colored pencils. So I did. I finished
the whole thing in about three hours. I think it turned out rather
well. It's been ages since I've done anything in natural media, much
less an original character. By the way, he's a character in that
online manga which I swear I'm working on. |
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Finally,
another picture of Tarasquel. ^^; This was a teeny-tiny little doodle
I did while not paying attention (as is usual) during Environmental Science
class. It turned out to be not just an action pose (gasp!) but the
only halfway decent armor design I've been able to do so far. So
I cheap-CG'd it. The sword is Eye Candy's Fire filter. |
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There
are many lessons to be learned from this piece. Lesson One: cheesy
pencil sketches can be made to appear much cooler than they actually are
through the magic of Photoshop filters! Lesson Two: the computer
monitor renders plain as day any previously unnoticable errors in one's
drawing. Like, the girls head appears grotesquely huge on screen,
while I could have sworn it looked fine in the original. Lesson Three:
when strapped for a title, one need nothing more than a random cool-sounding
Japanese word! 'Naiteru' means to cry, by the way. |
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I
really worked my ass off for this one. About a gajillion airbrushed
layers, occupying in excess of 50 megs on our hard drive. It was
my 1998 Christmas card; I wanted to go a little beyond the usual cute-character-in-a-Santa-suit
type picture, and draw something as warm and fuzzy as I always feel about
Christmas. My mom is a sucker for those native Christmas scene type
cards, so I tried to make my own version. The character is Alana.
A few people have said that she looks kind of androgynous here. O.O; |
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Like
the previous image, this was for The
Unseen Hand. The guy's name is David Faustus. I think "Faustus"
was a play by Christopher Marlowe, or someone like that. I don't
know if it's at all related to "Faust" by Goethe, which is about a guy
who makes a deal with the devil. The untinted, backgroundless version
really is clearer. You can find it here. |
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This
and the succeeding picture are character designs for The
Unseen Hand, which is an Impromanga
I started. Her name's Aya Bellarmine. The name Bellarmine comes
from a building in my school which was named for a Jesuit missionary.
The name Aya just sorta sounded good. That thingy around her neck
looks kinda like the key to Hell in Sandman: Season of Mists. The
background is a manipulated photo from one of those 4,000 Photos CD-ROMs.
For the clearer, backgroundless version, click here. |
