Superman and Bizarro Animatic

 

 

So now I drew out an animatic of the rough boards I did for this concept before. This is a short video as a proof of concept for a short animation. Everything was done in Blender, except for the audio which was recorded and edited in Audacity. The silhouettes are made up of symbols so I could animate them that way. The drawing and voice work is not my best, but I think I managed to improve the audio quality significantly compared to my previous videos. Ultimately, this was meant to be fun and to teach me some things about Blender. 

I definitely learned a lot about how to do things in Blender. I understand materials, grease pencil, rendering, and audio a lot better. I'm much more comfortable with the program and with digital drawing. Overall, I'm very happy with how it turned out. I plan to revisit this in the future and animate and color it.  

God be with me. Lord's will be done with this project. Thank you so much for helping me to get this done. Love you.

Sailor Moon Inspired

 

So I recently became a fan of Sailor Moon. I'm enjoying the series so far, but I also saw Spider-Verse recently, so I couldn't help but wonder what Sailor Moon would be like in a more American-style, streamlined superhero costume. I did some experimentation with the design and I landed on something like this. Most of the doodles will probably never appear on this blog. 

I tried to keep elements of her design in the costume. Originally it was much more complex. I played around with the mask style before deciding on incorporating her bow. I also made her moon symbol much more prominent.

I wanted to somehow keep part of Usagi's iconic hairstyle even if it was just partial. So the above image is experimenting with her double buns. I looked up some reference pictures from real life so I could reinterpret the buns instead of trying to copy the original art style. While I think that the perfectly circular buns are aesthetically pleasing, they wouldn't have fit with this art style. So I tried other styles.

This is a doodle I did at work. Here, her chest symbol is more pronounced and the arms are less complex. I also forgot to fix the legs. I could've gone back and done them, but oh well. It's just concept work for now. 

This is perhaps the image I'm most happy with. I didn't get the pose exactly right, but I'm still proud of how this turned out. 

God be with me. Lord keep me safe. Amen.

Janet Again

 

Today in church I redrew Janet from Abbess Janet (my short story) in pen. This time I got the proportions wrong, but I like what I experimented with. I was practicing line confidence with the pen, since I couldn't draw the outline underneath first. And I practiced with folds and varying line widths. Overall, I'm very happy with how it turned out. 

God bless you all. I love you, God.

Messy Batter

I wanted to sketch an image in my head for fun. It was inspired partially by the indie game OFF and the anime Paranoia Agent. I first discovered OFF through this wonderful series of animations. I was looking up images of bats that have been dented or broken, and I sketched this one really quickly. 

I've been so focused on improving lately I haven't really done anything super loose and fun. Thinking about the art style of OFF reminded me to do that. I like how the cross-hatching makes the character and the bat look dirty. I was imagining this character using the bat to fight internal demons and things. But I don't know what kind of story that would be. I'll keep it in my head.

God bless everyone and keep you safe. I love you, God. Amen.

Superman and Bizarro

This drawing is a redrawing of the one above with different perspective. I wasn't satisfied with the perspective of the first, and I'd forgotten to use my forms.

You can see I redrew Bizarro's head because I didn't like the pose of the first one on the right. It looked too much like I just spun the head instead of it turning.

This series of pictures is inspired by Scott Lobdell's version of Bizarro, the imperfect Superman clone. I imagined what it would be like for Superman and this new Bizarro to meet. So I drew some character interpretations and drew out a rough storyboard. I could polish this storyboard up, but since it's mostly a reference for me, I figured I'd leave it. The smaller images would be in silhouette. 

In explanation of the storyboards here, this would be Superman and Bizarro meeting for the first time. Superman notices that Bizarro is different from the other Bizarro's he's met (the evil ones), but Bizarro mistakenly thinks Superman means "you're different from me." Because this Bizarro wants more than anything to be like Superman.

Lobdell's Red Hood and the Outlaws is one of the few modern mainstream comics I respect. I know that sounds pretty harsh, and I guess it is. I owe them some respect because at least they've published something and I haven't. That takes guts and hard work. Anyway, if you're interested in reading a bit about the series, this website makes a good case.

https://thecomicvault.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/how-red-hood-and-the-outlaws-makes-you-care-about-bizarro/

I really like this version of Bizarro. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well.

God's will be done. God bless us all. I love you. Amen.