3 in color
I drew and colored three things, rather listlessly and to pass the time. All of them are on dA, so all I'll do differently here is perhaps to ramble a bit more about stuff, e.g. the 'heeelp' picture.
First, a thank you sketch for MBPanther, who gave me that beautiful birthday picture I linked. On paper, I liked how it looked. Wanted to keep the coloration detail to a minimum to retain the sketched look, but it didn't turn out at all how I had hoped. Also, I tried to avoid two of my common mistakes and still made them: 1) draw the legs too fat and 2) draw the eyes too big and too closely together. The big eyes were sort of intentional here, since the ref sheet I had clearly depicts a young, adorable character. MB liked it, though, and that's all I need to know. :-)
Then, MoonsongWolf linked a super fun Fursona generator and encouraged people to draw what they got. I got this on second try and thought it would be fun to paint. I painted over a reference picture to get it done in a timely fashion. You can find the generator, the journal and the reference photo HERE.
Someone then reminded me of orchid mantis again... while I'm familiar with those creatures, I googled pictures of them just for fun and came across this album. Man, look at that headshot! How the ocelli look like a jeweled diadem! I can't get over it. o.o Nature is so damn cool and scary.
And that one... heck was I bored. The sky is a filtered photo, taken from my balcony. This is normally a scene from my headworld, playing out between three humanoid characters. But they all got drawn as lions before, just for fun. And it's easier.
The white one is Tani, of course. In his backstory, he was at one point the commander of the invading Noian army but then got that command taken away from him and was derated due to circumstances that were 1/3 his failure, 1/3 political intrigue and 1/3 bad luck, I'd say. That ruined him financially and socially. Add to that the strain of battle in a far away country and you have a recipe for trouble. Among many other things, he began to suspect a random fellow soldier of a rather prestigious unit of loathing him and thinking of him as a loser and wanting him to fail. Everything he saw seemed to confirm his suspicion that that man had picked him as his personal enemy. May have been a psychological means of protection for himself, may just have been Tani's narcissistic personality. The soldier in question knew nothing of this. Given, he was kind of arrogant and self-important himself, but he had no idea why Tani glowered at him like that whenever their paths crossed. As the story progresses, things generally get more dramatic and Tani develops plenty of additional issues. Some things have him constantly on edge, he 'knows' everything wrong with the new commanders' way of working but can't make himself heard, and when his favourite enemy THEN says the wrong thing at the wrong time, Tani snaps. He has every intent of murdering the other in a fit of rage and, being one of the more high-powered characters, would have had no problems to complete that task, if one of the new commanders hadn't been there to stop him. At first, Tani can downplay the situation somewhat and get off only with light punishment but that does nothing about his rage, which now shifts to his superior. So it only takes a matter of days until Tani really gets his ass and ego kicked for insubordination. However, his superior in question is one of the most experienced officers there are and he's dealt with worse than the egocentric ex-senator. And he makes him learn his lesson. Everyone else in my headworld can thank him for that, or he would have become insufferable...r.
Current mood:
mediocre
First, a thank you sketch for MBPanther, who gave me that beautiful birthday picture I linked. On paper, I liked how it looked. Wanted to keep the coloration detail to a minimum to retain the sketched look, but it didn't turn out at all how I had hoped. Also, I tried to avoid two of my common mistakes and still made them: 1) draw the legs too fat and 2) draw the eyes too big and too closely together. The big eyes were sort of intentional here, since the ref sheet I had clearly depicts a young, adorable character. MB liked it, though, and that's all I need to know. :-)
Then, MoonsongWolf linked a super fun Fursona generator and encouraged people to draw what they got. I got this on second try and thought it would be fun to paint. I painted over a reference picture to get it done in a timely fashion. You can find the generator, the journal and the reference photo HERE.
Someone then reminded me of orchid mantis again... while I'm familiar with those creatures, I googled pictures of them just for fun and came across this album. Man, look at that headshot! How the ocelli look like a jeweled diadem! I can't get over it. o.o Nature is so damn cool and scary.
And that one... heck was I bored. The sky is a filtered photo, taken from my balcony. This is normally a scene from my headworld, playing out between three humanoid characters. But they all got drawn as lions before, just for fun. And it's easier.
The white one is Tani, of course. In his backstory, he was at one point the commander of the invading Noian army but then got that command taken away from him and was derated due to circumstances that were 1/3 his failure, 1/3 political intrigue and 1/3 bad luck, I'd say. That ruined him financially and socially. Add to that the strain of battle in a far away country and you have a recipe for trouble. Among many other things, he began to suspect a random fellow soldier of a rather prestigious unit of loathing him and thinking of him as a loser and wanting him to fail. Everything he saw seemed to confirm his suspicion that that man had picked him as his personal enemy. May have been a psychological means of protection for himself, may just have been Tani's narcissistic personality. The soldier in question knew nothing of this. Given, he was kind of arrogant and self-important himself, but he had no idea why Tani glowered at him like that whenever their paths crossed. As the story progresses, things generally get more dramatic and Tani develops plenty of additional issues. Some things have him constantly on edge, he 'knows' everything wrong with the new commanders' way of working but can't make himself heard, and when his favourite enemy THEN says the wrong thing at the wrong time, Tani snaps. He has every intent of murdering the other in a fit of rage and, being one of the more high-powered characters, would have had no problems to complete that task, if one of the new commanders hadn't been there to stop him. At first, Tani can downplay the situation somewhat and get off only with light punishment but that does nothing about his rage, which now shifts to his superior. So it only takes a matter of days until Tani really gets his ass and ego kicked for insubordination. However, his superior in question is one of the most experienced officers there are and he's dealt with worse than the egocentric ex-senator. And he makes him learn his lesson. Everyone else in my headworld can thank him for that, or he would have become insufferable...r.
Current mood:
mediocre