Lookit all them wips.

Someday I will learn how to come up with creative titles for my blogthings.

ANyway, so first up is some W.I.P. for Firewolf's commission- I'm trying out some new stuff I learned from a tutorial by PurpleKecleon (link: http://purplekecleon.deviantart.com/gallery/6754550#/d31xj5t ) and except for my massive inability to pick out darker colors, It seems to be working out quite well =3


Next is a preview that I TOTALLY forgot to post! This is a decent example (kinda) of what the HUGEASS group thing i'm doing should sorta look like-
And posing as an example is generifox 2.0 8D More info here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1869316/


And this here. .. Might be Randal from Porta Custodis. . . I haven't decided yet. I'm playing with the idea of him being the youngest gatekeeper- his predecessor died before he got the chance to retire, and Randal was thrust headfirst into the job about five/ten years before he'd expected to be, more or less on his own (i mean, the other gatekeepers are there, but they don't see each other THAT often)- anyway, so he's young and a little worse for wear. . . DUnno what his "working" clothes are, yet, though.


I AM IN LOVE WITH PROFESSOR LAYTON AND WE ARE GOING TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE LITTLE PUZZLE-SOLVING BABIES AND BREAK LUKE'S HEART AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT (unless maybe you are megamind)


OKAY.
All the rest of these are for Final Absolution
Liam


Dani


Liam


Dani



Jaq


. . . Yup.

3 images is all i need

to make a blog post ;3

inks (or something) for Firewolf66's commission. Finally got the legs looking okay!



trade with miss twix ;3 sexy medic is sexy =3


and.. scooby is missing his spots.
it's funny if you know the characters.
i.. don't want to explain it though >>

IT'S DONE, OH MY GOD

HOLY SHIT.

played a lot with filters and textures on this one.

LEARNIINNGGGG.

it seems to have worked though, so no biggie.

I will of course be selling prints of this =3


some wip of California Girls for Twix- sketched the characters into manga studio, then exported them to photoshop to adjust the heights. still have a -little- more to do in that area, and then i can save as a .jpg and put them back into manga studio and actually ink them.


and for firewolf, his slot in the iron artist thing- five of his characters set down for a TEAM PHOTO WOOO.
I am having some issues with legs, though.
I'll figure it out -_-


. . . anyway, I'm editing the script for The River again (if you missed it, there's a website now: http://river.thedesertwinds.com ). When i started to sketch the pages, i also started realizing better ways of doing things, and as such i need to re-arrange the pagination and overall script to make it BETTAR.

so I'll be doing that, I guess.

Mostly Gift Sketches

I'm gonna start here by saying that I'm no longer going to be posting EVERYTHING that I make for the river-
From here on out, that'll all be put on http://river.thedesertwinds.com
:3 Seeing as that's the project site and all.

BUT, you do still get the stuff that I think is "the best"- and here's the most recent one.

I'm not sure if I like how this one turned out, when compared with the previous. I didn't do any shading with the watercolors (except on the dirt/rocks/water in the BG a bit)- but I DID try out the charcoal on top of it.. i dunno. I might try the pitt pastel over the watercolros next, then do the same thing that I did with those watercolor pics awhile back- charcoal (probably pastel, now) undershading and then watering down the colors as much as I can and applying them over.
I dunno. it's storybook-y and I like the way this style is coming out overall, but it's still not as soft as I was going for.
As for what's in the background- the river is based loosely off of the Sacramento River (given I live closer to it than I thought I did.) and also kinda those BADASS mountains in china.
you know.
the awesome ones.


A doodle of Krizzle. it is adorable AND DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME OTHERWISE.


A the sketch wip for a doodle I am making for someone who gave me some good input about Porta Custodis.


Another sketch gift, this time for Starling from Inkbunny.net ... he commented about liking the style of the river and hoping to see a storybook out of it, and was excited when i said that that was what the style was for.
SO I DREW HIM.


This is... um. Sheppero. He's for Sageon, who also gave me good input on porta custodis


Asher, for the same reasons


I forget this handsome fella's name, but he's for SeHT also for giving me some awesome input =3


this is FEN BECAUSE HE IS FENNYLISCIOUS. I like what happened with the head but I'm not so hot on the body. Want to finish it, though.


Oh, remember this? Yeha. It's about halfway colored now, but here are some lines for you.
The inks are that way on purpose >>


OLD picture of something called a valerien.


newer picture


Newest picture, including some rough sketches of a harness used on it. . . . Yeah. these guys are for one of those worlds that i'm always building but might not ever use.

A river of Images

Just to be different, We'll start with the image that has NOTHING to do with The River.
This is for Szorn, and.. it looks fucking amazing.
but I did that thing there I COMPLETELY forgot character details until after I was finished.


Alright, on to the River now.
Some pose sketches of character bodies. Just trying to get things figured out. I lost my consistency for drawing them awhile ago, so I need to get back on that :/ the image of little sister is like WAY too big.


Some motion sketches. I really need to practice these a little bit more.


More general posing, trying to figure shit out. Apparently big sister shaved off all her hair right before this.


Really like the lines on this one, but otherwise there's no reason to show you it. it kind of looks like a cross between big sister and little sister.


PAINT. RARGH i didn't shade the character really so it kind of looks like i just pasted her in there.
I also forgot to do the sky under her arm until the last minute so it's sort of like O-o
This is the image that made me go "WAIT. MAYBE THIS INKS STYLE WON'T WORK."


more motion. . .


Rough sketch of the cover.


Rough sketch of the newest version of Page 1


Rough sketch of what is theoretically page two. I may need to add one before or after it.. somewhere before page nine.


rough sketch of page 3. this marks as far as I got when i first started this project in the beginning of 2009


page four. NOMS. I was going for an OM NOM effect like from Lilo and Stitch, for Little Sister, but It's not quite working.


Sketched and painted this yesterday. I like the way that the character interacts with the background a LOT more in this one than in the other.

SO MANY PICTURES ARGH

Let's start with the river.

I've been off my game for awhile- this (an awesome sketch that i may need to finish digitally) was the first picture of Big Sister that's come out even remotely on-model in awhile.


the first sets of Little Sister that have been on model in awhile-
I -REALLY- like the leaned-back-head-giant-mouth sorts of expressions. I get that from the Peanuts, I think.


a sketch of a scene from the end of the book. the nurse looks like Rosie O'Donnel.


Some watercolor practice.


I don't know what this is, but it's awesome.


same here.
the gradient worked out pretty good, though.


California Girls, they'll melt your popsicle.


Twix, lounging.


Twix pretending to be bread


twix, prowling.


the love child of myself and twix.


sketch for a commissioner


'nother sketch for the same guy.


yeah.

not much to say today, really D:

Choices, Choices.

Let's start with that trade i was doing!

This is Jen.

she apparently is covered in purple.
I was trying something new and it appears to have worked, so no complaints on my part.


And this is the entire comic-
it's a snippet of the life of Bubbles (i would make his name a link except that there's nothing to link it to) from somewhere within the canon of the Action Transvestites. I've got SO MUCH SHIT to say about this thing so but I really want to give you guys a chance to read it and figure it out on your own first.


Alright, so, for starters, this thing.. went through so many stages.
the sketch. (the last panel was actually like three panels)- I don't think i have a copy of the sketch anymore.
the inks... which i have, and may post in the future-
the inks were originally done traditionally with my black copic sketch.
the first thing i tried once it was scanned was coloring the lines.. but this was hard as shit, so i stopped, made the borders for the panels, and started redefining some of the shittier shapes (first panel, last panel, mostly) .. did it without changing the color of my brush, too, which is why everything is brown.
the rest of the linework kind of worked itself out from there- I was -REALLY- liking the sketchy look, and with some thought decided that it worked, and from there it was just making the line bigger/cleaner for close-up shots.
and blue... blue happened because blue goes with brown, and also because bubbles's shirt he's wearing IS that light-ass blue (and it was the only other color I'd used when trying to color the lines).
pretty much everything after that was on purpose, though :3

anyway..... i had this idea in my head- you've all seen that episode of EVERY SINGLE SITCOM where someone is sort-of dating more than one person. . . and one of those people makes them PICK ONE ALREADY.

This is.. bubble's response.