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

Mountains and clouds.

A landscape, somewhat inspired by Daoist landscape paintings.

Daoist inspired landscape.

Typographic Sci Fi Posters #4: Planet of the Apes.

The fourth and (for now) last of these posters. I may create others in the future, but I want to work on refining these four for now. This last one is, obviously, Planet of the Apes. This time, like in the 2001 poster, the image and the quote are very closely linked, and this is the ominous line which precedes the famous twist ending. Hopefully the statue of liberty image is clear enough in this rendition.

 

Another drawing tool pixelart preview.

This is another preview of the pixelart piece that also includes the Prsimacolor marker and Micron pen, featured in this post.

This image is a set of four Staedler mechanical pencils. Specifically, the Graphite 925.

You can see the specific pencil I mean here;

http://www.staedtler.com/graphite_925_eng

Anyhow, here is the pixelart version.

I just made one pencil, and modified it for all four versions. The only difference is the color of the lead weight indicator. These are my favorite mechanical pencils, because of the small sliding ‘window’ which indicates what lead weight you’re using. The colors indicate the lead size. Blue it .07, red is .05, orange is .09, and yellow is .03.  I could have made the actual tip of the pencil wider for the two wider sizes, or at least for the .09, and I may alter that in the final version.

Now, as to what this specific work is…I decided to do a large pixelart featuring a large number of drawing utensils. Mechanical pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, quill pens, etc. It will also include erasers, pastels, t squares, a compass, l squares, various drafting tools, etc. I’m trying to keep them all proportionate. Specifically, I started with the micron pen, and then used that as a guide. These Staelders were particularly difficult compared to the more simple things such as a colored pencil. The greater variety of surface detail made it difficult to get this right, and it ended up being far too long the first time I created the image.

Anyway, there it is! Another work-in-progress/preview. The final image should contain something like 50 or so drawing/drafting tools, all more or less to scale with each other

Mountains and red clouds.

Just some mountains and red clouds.

Geometric chair.

Just two more sketches of furniture.

 

A geometric chair made of stone. It may not be the most comfortable chair ever, but it looks distinct.

Red Pandas and Venetian Masks.

Red panda, sticking it’s tongue out, and looking goofy. Yeah, I like red pandas.

Anyhow….

I also did this sketch of a venetian mask. It’s, well, a venetian mask. It has no mouth because I thought it might look visually interested. The shape of the mask is meant to have a shape vaguely reminiscent of a cobra. There rest of the elements are just abstraction.

Shattered Space

Lucca, dark style.

Just a fanart of Lucca, from Chrono Trigger, in a slightly different style and design than that seen in the game. This style was largely inspired by the style of Jean Giraud/Moebius, mostly in terms of the shading/hatching. I dispensed with her helmet, and gave the glasses a slightly different shape, then added a shoulder pad. Below is the image in color.

So, yeah. Flat color. I thought about shading it, but decided that this worked better. I added some scars to her face, to give her a slightly more hardened look. Think of this as a post-apocalyptic Lucca if you like, living in the 2300 A.D. setting for an extended period.

Shadow Flowers.

A female character with flowers.

Just for clarity, this is not supposed to by the protagonist of Bayonetta, nor is it the Baronness from G.I. Joe. I just wanted to do a drawing of a female character with dark hair and glasses. There are also flowers, just because I like drawing flowers. This was actually done in early 2011, but I never uploaded it until now.