Dungeon Extra Credit

 

It's been several months since I posted, for a number of reasons. I finally finally finished school and I'm done with it forever. 

Praise. God.

Several things have happened because of that. Moving. Starting a new job, etc. I've practiced very little, mostly because I was trying to practice proportional, realistic styles I'm not good at. And that led me to feeling bad and stopping all together. 

 I realized I was putting too much pressure on myself. I remembered, again, that drawing is supposed to be fun. Move fast. Break things. Fail faster. Make mistakes. So I dusted off an old idea. My theory is, if the work is a comedy, it's okay for the art to be a little bad.

I'm not even sure what names most of these characters have yet. The original name of the story was Dungeon Busters, but that's already the title of a light novel I'd never heard of. Oh well.

The story with these characters deals with a lot: work, school, how we spend our free time, friends, time management, and having fun. As an overview, this team of kids (of unspecified age) spend their time fighting monsters in a world where monsters spawn randomly at night. Some of them chose this as a hobby, others dislike it and are using it on the path to new and better things. Whatever the case, they're all vastly unqualified. 

The girl at the top, her name in 2022 was Moxilda, but that has changed for a number of reasons. She is the team's healer.

The gentleman above is the team's front line, who is one of the most cynical members of the team but probably loves adventuring the most. He'd quit school and adventure with his friends every day if he could.

This guy above, he's the party's giantkin thief, not exactly the most obvious combination. But he's unwaveringly optimistic and, crucially, dislikes fighting.

Now this girl, her name I know. This is Cellica. This is serious business for her. She loves school, and adventuring is something she does to save up for whatever comes next. Adventuring can be "fun," but only rarely.

In the original document, her name was Hanna. Her design has changed, but she's still the same elf bard. You can see me gain confidence since my little disaster on the first page. Let's call that one a warm up.

God bless everyone. Have a great long while.

Dromea from Superterra

These drawings are of Dromea, a character from a story I've invented. Dromea is an alien. As you can see, she is bipedal but has four arms: two "lifting arms" and two "manipulating arms." Her species does not have necks like humans, so they were compensated by the second pair of eyes on the outside of their heads, allowing them to see further from side to side. They have spider-like pedipalps and chelicerae, but they have mammal-like skin and hair. They have white to gray to black skin and similarly colored hair.

Dromea has a set of white discolored spots on her gray skin which resemble large human freckles.

These other drawings are sketches I did trying to figure out their anatomy and how best to draw it.

God be with me. The semester is almost over. God's will be done for these drawings and everything else. I love you. Amen.

Hand Drawn Assignment for Rendering Class

 

For some reason, part of our first assignment in rendering class included making a hand drawn colored image based on a photorealistic image from the internet. I chose the famous shot from the Avatar: Way of Water trailer. I haven't bothered to actually see the film yet, but this shot was interesting. For those unaware, it sparked a discussion as to whether or not the hands were CGI. Many guessed the water was real and the hands were CGI. In fact, the hands were real human skin painted to have subsurface scattering while the water and surrounding environment were completely simulated. 

I gave myself an hour to copy the image as best as possible. Then I called it and turned it in. 

God be with me. Lord help me this year and always. I need you. I love you. Amen.

Vin from Mistborn

 

Some copy paper came out of the printer blank with ink marks all over it at my workplace, and I was told to recycle them. It seemed like a waste of good paper, so I drew on them. These are some drawings I did of the character Vin from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Saga. Her hair is honestly a little long in these, unless these are supposed to be from the second book. In the first book, her hair barely gets long enough to where it looks like a choice rather than having grown out from being cut short.

Vin captivated my imagination because she's itty-bitty small, but she has the powers of a superhero.

The above picture was also drawn on letter paper in church, and is an older drawing. You can see one of my notes above it, "action of cape is wrong". In this first drawing, I forgot the Mistborn are often described as going barefoot. She could also have more tension in her expression. In official art, the cloaks are shown as having a scarf around their neck as well.

God bless everyone. God's will be done. I commit all of these to you. Amen.

Sketches from Church

 These are some of the sketches I've done while I'm at church. What can I say? Services are long.

Here's a version of Lauren!

Apologies for the drawings behind the sketches. There's a reason I don't often use these composition journals for sketching anymore. 

God bless everyone. God save us all. God's will be done.

Card of Sennaar

 

This is a card I made for my dad based on the amazing game, Chants of Sennar. For anyone not familiar, the game is about decoding languages based on context. It's extremely well executed. I wish more games were like it. 

I had the opportunity to watch my dad play this game. It was a very special experience for me. 

God bless you all. I love you. God's will be done for me.

Bastille vs. Birthdays

 

It's that time again! That magical time of year that's somebody's birthday. For this year, I drew the character Bastille from the Brandon Sanderson series Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians. Specially, this is an image of her from the final book in the series, based on one of the covers. To anyone who hasn't read it, I can highly recommend the whole series. I did some exploration of what I wanted the drawing to look like before I tried the final product. It took some doing, and I could have made it even better, but I'm proud of how it turned out. 

God's will be done. God bless you. Yes, you specifically.