Hellhoney - The Leprechaun Character Design Sketches

I just took a fall about 15-20 minutes ago. I was walking into my room and my rubber-soled house shoes caught on the floor and sent me tumbling, almost crashing into my desk and scanner in the process. Luckily I landed on a rug, but that rug took off one or two layers of skin! So I just got patched back up after realizing I was bleeding. It's all this character's fault...

The Leprechaun - Name Also To Be Revealed Later 8D



I started adding freckles to her, but they looked wrong, so I erased them. And yet the eraser dust on this scan actually makes them look okay. I'm going to have fun when I draw her braids for serious.

Though I noticed I seem to keep going back to a more realistic style than the style I started with at the beginning of the year with this particular project. Before I was trying to parody the huge eyes of shoujo comics, and I wonder if I should go back to that original goal (even though it makes my characters look like creepy aliens, but that's actually kind of fitting for this comic.)



The Leprechaun is the tank of the team (she's short, but stocky.) However, she also has an interesting asset in the form of her pot of gold. At first I was thinking Death Rainbows could shoot out for the extra redonkulous factor. But maybe it could be a hyperdimensional portal as well. It could be useful for storing extra weapons and healing items (which would be awesome if this ever became an RPG.)

Hellhoney - The Dragon Character Design Sketches

I'm going to try start posting my sketches and Work-In-Progresses here on a regular basis. If I stop getting distracted, that is. And manage my time right. New Year's is a long way off, in both directions, will I be able to do it?? *noes* (Okay, that sounded wrong. Don't allow me to narrate for movies.)

So I'll start by posting a Hellhoney character design. Two sketches for now, as I want to spread things out and stall until I finish coloring some pieces and finish the reworked script for Chapter 1 of Hellhoney.

The Dragon! Real Name Not Yet Revealed!



She will be a rival and ally of the main character. The Sailor Mars of the group, basically.



Her mythical creature is the dragon. I hope I'm not making the designs too similar. I just want to make sure they fit together.

Tomorrow's post will hopefully not be so late. I haven't decided yet whether it will be another Hellhoney design/sketch, a WIP image, or fanart. Hmm...

To-Do Lists... and another project?!

You know your To-Do List is too long...

...when it goes over the kilobyte limit for deviantART's journal. :|

In addition to the work on my comics and their accompanying illustrations, I hope to post another(?!!) project of mine soon. See, I collect stuffed animals. I give them personalities and play with them, both for fun and because it inspires me. Not only are they the inspiration for one of my major comic projects, but I've been making "human-ized" illustrations of some of them (particularly my collection of owls.) This way I can also show potential characters before they are introduced in my comic. I have about 7 of them drawn out so far of 15 planned illustrations.

So I hope to show these illustrations to you really soon! (And when I stop being lazy and find my camera and USB cable, I'll take some pictures of my stack of WIPs!)

Another update on project progresses

Sooo... I have two comic book covers all inked on illustration board just waiting to be colored.

And tons of drawings ready to be inked.

And folders of drawings to color on my laptop.

I think I'm just going to finish up that preview image first and get some opinions before I pick a place to start in this mess. What do you guys think?

Yeah, I suck. Just kidding.

I still need to letter that comic from last year. :|

But! I actually do have progress on my independent comics. When I say you'll see stuff soon, this time it is so soon it will smack you in the face. Unless my scanner inconveniently dies (which it didn't!) :D

There are 10 projects that I am working on all at once. One of the ten is the above mentioned comic from last year. People that have known me since high school probably know another one. And a handful know another. That's all the hints for now!

I think I'm going to make a habit of scanning all my sketches once a week so I'll have something to show you guys. <3 Because I'm so not sitting around watching anime all day. (Only part of it. :3 )

Spring Break 2010 - A break to talk about art

What have I been up to art-wise?

Well, the art class I'm taking right now wonderfully forces us to be prolific. I've had a lot of free reign, so I feel like I've accomplished more actual works that I am proud of than any of my other semesters in college. (The only semesters that come close to this feeling of achievement was the leaps in figure drawing I made my 5th and 6th semesters.)

I'll start making some regular updates to my deviantART gallery soon. I just need to see which art I would like to submit to online publications (since they usually ask for first publication rights.)

And I have a comic that just needs lettering, the covers colored and a few more surprises. It will be 20 pages of story and 5 pages of bonus content. I'll most likely post it on deviantART and SmackJeeves soon. I'll definitely send it to a self-publisher, though, so if you're interested in buying a copy, I'll have more details soon.

In the meantime, have a look at a poster I made for my sister's birthday last fall. I think it's my best work from 2009. I need to find a better way of photographing it so I can post it on my deviantART and possibly my portfolio.

2010... New Year and New Art!

A new year and new art! Though I'll be finishing some stuff from the last year. Like this picture of Toni I drew last summer:



And a Hello!Project picture that I drew last December and started coloring in September. XD



Expect more Hello!Project and Pokemon fanart! And Power Warp art for my comic! ^^