Emma, pt.1

This is the first of a series of sketches of a character in a short story that I may or may not ever finish. Her name is Emma, and she is one of the primary characters in said story. She’s supposed to have a hipster/indie rock sort of feel. These sketches detail her appearance and assorted elements of her design.

 

The story itself involves the search for an ancient artifact: a crystal pocketwatch that is thought to be capable of raising the dead. What it actually does, however, is far more strange and terrifying.

 

Emma, pt.1

Red.

This is a fanart of a fictional creature name Red, which is itself a character in another fan-created work called the Godzilla Creepypasta. I loved the GCP story so much that I had to do a fanart of the  creature Red, which is the primary antagonist of the story. Red is NOT my creation. He is the creation of Cosbydaf, the author of the Godzilla Creepypasta blog/short story. The Godzilla Creepypasta can be read here.

Red

Mini-illustrations.

Okay, this idea came about suddenly, but it involved some images I had been meaning to create for a while now. First off, these are ‘mini illustrations’. These are done on small bristol boards, each of which measures 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Each board has an image on each side. They were sketched out, and then inked with Micron pens, and finally colored with Copic sketch markers and black india ink, as well as a Copic brush multi-liner.

 

Now, as to the content. These are depictions of something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I find the idea of a large, dark, interior space such as this to be very frightening. Like an endless, artificial cave that goes on forever in all directions, made up of both expansive nightmarish vistas, as well as claustrophobic, twisting mazes.

 

The first image I created was the one of the darkened doorway, with the two tan columns on the right wall. Initially, these spaces were going to just depict cold, empty spaces made of nothing but old, worn down concrete. But that wasn’t working. It wasn’t visually interesting enough. At the same time I didn’t want to add anything too ‘conventional’ looking. In the end, I went with the organic sort of columns seen in the image, and tried to draw them in such a way that they could almost be seen as plant-like growths. (This continues my penchant for drawing alien plants.)

 

The second image I draw, the tall columns with the doorways and the membrane-like growths, is probably the one I’m  the most satisfied with. Yes, those small black dots ARE doorways of average size, which gives you a good idea of the scale here. The curved pedestal image is accompanied by two structures that are meant to echo deep sea tube worms.

 

The colors used in these were, primarily, cool grey and warm grey. The last image, ‘the Hangar’, contains some browns, tans, and yellows, to create the rust effect on the metal plate.

 

There’s more to these images than all that, however, and I would love to expand on them in a short story or perhaps a short comic.