Kanna and Others

 So I recently (last year) started reading the manga 20th Century Boys written and drawn by Naoki Urasawa. It's absolutely incredible. I could gush about it this entire post, but I won't. Basically, it's a manga spanning a time period of several decades with incredible themes about growing up, morality, dreams, childhood mistakes, and truth. The writing alone makes it worth reading for anyone adult, but the art is also something special. I really like how the author draws characters and expressions. So while I was in class, I tried practicing the above character, Kanna, from memory. I'll have a look in a minute to see how well I did.

Practicing action poses, in this case one from the manga that I tried to recall.

In the above picture, I was practicing with fabric and clothing on a character. I ended up putting more attention into the face anyway. Go figure. We keep trucking forward.

I think I was practicing expressions with this one too, but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, I liked it enough to include here. 

God's will be done. Save me. I love you. Amen.

Hikers Concepts

 

 

 I realized I never posted these drawings to this blog. As you can see, I didn't even put my signature near all of them like I usually do, but I did date the pages at least. These are concepts for my webcomic, Hikers, which I'm doing for practice. I had a rough concept for the characters, but I didn't know what they looked like for about a month. There's also some cool concept of the evil spirit bull on one of these pages. The image second down from the top was an effort to give the Hiker more of a 3D pose.

God's will be done for me. God help me. I love you. Amen.

Aliya from Hero Hop

This character's name is Aliya. She is a character in a story I've been thinking about. I drew her once, and then I wanted to practice pushing her pose to make it better. I'm much more satisfied with this final drawing (above), than I am with the first. I've included the drawings in reverse order of when they were drawn. 

Aliya's design is inspired primarily by Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII, with a few major changes. Mostly, I'm just happy with the progression here. 

God's will be done. Help me with all of this. Thank you, God. Amen.

Classes Start, Sketchbook Out

 

 I suddenly find myself with a lot more quality time with my sketchbook, because classes have started again. So many meetings. Anyway, the above picture is for more practice drawing multiple people in the same scene. If there's one major complaint I have with this picture, it's that their heads are not consistent sizes. Well, that's what practice is for. 

The next few drawings are actually all characters from the D&D game I'm running at the library I work at. God is good. 

This first character is named Odie. Don't let her appearance fool you. She's really nice. I'm interested in making horrifying monsters that are actually cool people. Odie's character design was inspired mainly by the eponymous character from the indie game Gnarled Hag by Pompasaur. I can recommend the game to anyone who doesn't like peaceful dreams.

These are Nana and Lightspeed. Nana is the shorter one. Lightspeed is Nana's assistant, sort of in the vain of Igor or Kronk. Lightspeed is an ironic nickname that Nana gave her. This design is only a first pass. I would want to draw them again if this was anything official, and Nana should be much shorter.

Finally, this guy. He is actually an antagonist. I tried to imitate what I remembered of the character Vulcan Haestus from the Studio Trigger film Promare. I think I captured his spirit even if not the details of his design.

 

 

God be with me in my classes and always. I love you. Amen.

Action Scenes

Now that I'm somewhat comfortable with my ability to drawn characters and anatomy, I want to also practice drawing characters in scenes with other characters. This is important, because it emphasizes relationships, composition, and perspective rather than just characters hovering in space on a flat background. 

The two above images are drawings I did over Christmas break when I had a few minutes to myself. They are quick and rough, but I'm happy with the practice behind them. The topmost picture is of Yellow and Skull Atla fighting each other. I'm very happy with their expressions and poses. However, it could be pushed more to emphasize the contact between them. Right now that's a little stiff. The second picture is of nothing in particular. I just wanted to draw it. I'm happy with the perspective. The anatomy could be better. 

This is a drawing sort of in the style of Lauren that I did a while back. The figure is different, but similar. This is still a single figure, but the composition is better.

I did this one a while ago, and I think it turned out pretty cool. I like the character designs, the composition, and the relationship here. I don't really know the larger story behind it, but I like it.

This one is simple compared to the other images, but it's still practicing having more than one character in a scene and showing a relationship between them.

God be with me. God come back soon. See you in the new year. I love you.

Flash Fanart

 

Some quick fanart I did tonight of the DC superhero the Flash. Thinking back, I'm not sure I've posted any of my art of him on here before. I'd have to go back and look to make sure. Mostly, I just wanted to practice an interesting perspective. I didn't get it exactly right, but you get the idea. For something this quick, I'm very satisfied. 

I'm doing well. The semester is drawing to a close. I was talking to God tonight about how I feel like doing more just for my own edification, but I also feel tired all the time. God's will be done. Christ will lead me on. Love you, God.

Hikers First Arc

 

 

https://tapas.io/episode/2513822

 So back in the spring, I started a webcomic. I just finished the first sort-of hook for the overall comic that will serve as an introduction, and I figured I should put a link to the comic here. This will make it easier to navigate to from this blog. A hook should serve as a miniature version of the rest of the story, and that's what I want for this bit.

The image above is a drawing I did for the title page before I even started on the first page. There are some inconsistencies with the characters' designs between here and the first few pages, but that's to be expected with a developing webcomic. I just made this to be fun and to get practice. Consistency is a happy accident where it's found. 

God save me. Lord's will be done. I love you.