May - August 7 art dump
FIRST, stuff where I just took manga and copied out of them to try to draw like awesome people who draw awesome:
D.Gray! Or rather, Allen and Ticky =|
Of the most excellent Templar, AZ. I loooooooove Spike's art.
I need to buy more Air Gear volumes just so I can draw more from it =| Other stuff in the corners.
Samura my bff )=
If you haven't heard of Jack Frost, it's Hellsing and Air Gear's hilarious bastard child.
I REALLY WANT TO DRAW MORE DOGS NOW THAT I REALIZE I DIDN'T DRAW ANY. I got distracted by the fact that it has absolutely no background work and it made me sad inside. The second one was just doodling and I noticed it kind of looked like Ed and ran with it.
I'VE ALSO done some FMA art and some Hellsing and uuuh. idk. other things. But that was before I had a sketchbook and was drawing on lined paper so it's off somewhere.
NOT PARTICULARLY GOOD ART WISE but you see, in Sabra la Tau (a roleplay) Zack has these two giant metal claws from a T-Rex. But he doesn't have the abilities to fasten a handle for them. So I wanted to show roughly how he uses them. He also needs to make the sheath as shown there, because right now he just carries them around.
More Sabra stuff. Trying to get Zack's features down on the upper left. Slick and Red (Ticky and Rabi) having a conversation about how Rabi fails at girls from Sabra. The note there says "I managed to make both Ticky and Rabi not hot!" Which is mostly how I feel about that =| UH. Bottom left was an attempt to draw Jace from his PB icons. Middle is 'lolo my dog died ;;' and bottom right was an attempt to work out Jace from his EXTREMELY UNHELPFUL official art icons.
That's almost all of the stuff that isn't really mine. THE REST, outside a couple of warm up doodles, is original /o/ I'll be TALKING ABOUT A FEW OF THEM
First time I drew Dij! At the time he was called Dyo but I fixed that. Anyway. I rather hated his design but for some reason kept drawing it anyway?
This is from shortly after that. I decided I hadn't started working on a new manga in a while and would just draw things and see what happened. Dyo is now Dij and Rino is now Jackal. Copper is still Copper, I haven't decided how I want his hair to look. I kind of like the tilted corn rows but need to work the logics out for it? This is also where I went "Man it's fun to draw Dij with vastly differing expressions, maybe he's crazy =|a".
Copper has a twin brother! Well, actually in this world everyone is born with a twin, they're just killed after a year or so. (Infanticide! Yay!). Rohl, shown here, was carried away by his dad and I don't know much else about him yet. I haven't drawn him since because it's JUST LIKE DRAWING COPPER (Hard) and even more work. IDK who the blond guy is. I kind of like the look but it's really just a failure of trying to draw someone else.
Let's see. Embarrassing attempt at drawing bodies from a few months ago. You'll notice I am currently mostly sticking to heads. I'LL GET There. I do like Dij's homosexual expression tho =| In the one where Copper is sitting Dij was supposed to be leaning on him but that was hard. Aaand Jackal! Attempting bodies with the help of a ref.
Getting more into the EXCITING TERRITORY of Dij Is A Psychopath. That far left image is my favorite picture of him yet, and is what he'd look like all the time if I were able to draw consistently/reproduce the effect =| He has bandages on his hands because they are sort of diseased, more on that later. But as a result he fights with his legs and is not above crushing someone's skull in with his elbow. Middle picture! Unfinished, I worked at it for a while before going \o/ and moving on. I also forgot that Dij shouldn't be using his hands. I'll redraw it one day with that fixed. Also they're friends I swear.
THE DAY I FIGURED OUT HOW TO HEADS PROFILE. SHIT I WAS EXCITED I CAN'T TELL YOU
Originally Dij's hands were burned. That was hard to draw. So was Ticky/Allen porn.
IDK stuff.
VARIOUS CHARACTER DESIGNS:
First chick isn't really anyone. Girl in pigtails is Rahal. She's one of the PEOPLE IN DIJ'S HEAD. Which is to say, Dij has all of his previous lives in his head, thanks to a science experiment gone wrong (right??). Twenty-eight of them represent various virtues, as the goal of the people of this particular version of Hell is to become angelic and be accepted by God, and in order to do this they try to become virtuous. The system is a little broken, but in attempting to take an already Very Close To Ascending guy like Dij and make him an angel, they opened up all of his past lives to himself, and made him sort of crazy. Rahal here is the virtue of Temperance. Also! Dij's mother and a midboss chick. I promise she will be interesting and a fully functional and independent awesome female eventually =| As it is, i wanted to draw that kind of hair.
The hand is CLOSER to what Dij's hands actually look like. He's a victim of a particular virus that dehydrates everything it comes in contact with, very slowly. The black chick is an early design of Copper's mom, didn't like the hair.
SOME MORE SAMURA ON THE LEFT THERE. On the right a totally awesome hairdo.
Copper's mom has a name! Etepnica. Some various other stuff. The little girl in the lower right is Nashta, another one of the people in Dij's head. Her virtue is Valor. And then the chick there is for the virtue Beauty, buuuuuuut idk if I'm keeping that design I was just screwing around. Also I should probably start designing men for his head too. Guys are just harder =|