Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sketched in Seconds



These sketches for Sketched in Seconds were actually done on different days and the girl was part of the original set, however I lost the paper of her in one of my work notebooks and she just turned up this morning whilst I was doing some cleaning. So here she is! Sorry for her delay!

The drawing of the clown, Joko, is probably the last one I'll be doing at my current job. Starting November I'll have a new position aboard the high-seas, or rather, intracoastal waterway as a pirate. Yes, you read that correctly, I've been offered a position as part of the marketing team for a new event yacht with a pirate theme, so of course, I'll be taking part in the pirate theatrics too and doing face-painting for the kiddies. Ah, my jobs are awesome.

Anyway enjoy these sketches, the next update will have the fully colored comic from the previous entry! :)

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Sillies

So for those who have ever played Neopets.com I'm a phantom user on there. That is, I forget I have an account for months at a time and then suddenly decide to lurk back on there for whatever reason.

I use to be highly in love with the site back when Adam/Donna/Poptart/Snowflake and all the other old TNT administrators where not only part of theneopetsteam but active on the boards. So my account is about nine and a half years old right now, hahaha.

Unfortunately I only have access to one of my accounts as the other two have incorrect birthdays entered ages ago and even after contacting administration with the correct email address and password, they still refused to unlock my account and allow me to reset my birthday.

And of course one of those accounts was my neopoints bank. =_=;; After nine and a half years, my main account is now incredibly poor since my millions of neopoints and extremely rare items are all locked away on an account I'll never be able to unlock again... ah, whoa is me.

Besides that, due to following one of my favorite DA artists who is just insanely good in all things comical, 2D animated and just a fantastic all-around gal, (check out her ridiculously fabulous artwork on DA here: http://canadian-rainwater.deviantart.com/), she also has a Neopets' comic that she's working on and it tickles my fancy.

That said, after being thoroughly engrossed in her comical works and realizing how incredibly lacking my own comic drawing skills are, I've decided to embark on my own Neopet-related comic series. I hope it will help me get use to drawing the same character over and over again in different poses and to help familarize me with drawing animals and architecture.

So view my first released-in progress work of my comic! :)



As simplistic as this comic is, the architectural challenges of the stair cases (and on page 2 there's actually a lot more to the staircases that I drew, it just ended up not fitting into the panels) coupled with drawing the kougra walking down the staircases, gave me a rather large headache. My kougra also has wings so that was another structural issue of figuring out how to fit them in without them taking up the entire panel; I attempted to fold them in such a manner that it hopefully makes some kind of anatomical sense, though I'm still in doubt if anyone will actually realize they are wings. =_=;;

Anyway, I'm rather happy with how this is coming along, I'm undecided if I'll actually attempt to color them or if I'm just going to enhance the lines and leave them in shades of gray tones... I'm pretty lazy, so the entire comic might end up in shades of gray. ^^;; we'll see. I want to gray out this panel and then move on to sketching out the rest of the comics. I have a very rough idea in my head of where this story is even going and how many comics it'll be, my sketches will decide!

Lmao, well, hope you enjoy and hope it brings back a little Neopets nostalgia for you! :)

* Edit: Also I should note that the text on page 2 isn't going to be kept in that format, because it looks stupid, it's simply so I can know how much room the text will take up on those panels. ~ That is all.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Grapes.

I think everyone has a food that comforts them when they eat it, i.e., comfort food.

However I'm not sure many people have a food that makes them feel royal, as though you are somehow part of the elite by eating it; that your status is more socially recognized and you're financially better off than you actually are.

This strange sensation of increased importance/wealth completely fills me up when I eat grapes. I'm not sure if it's because I grew up reading Greek mythology and all the gods and goddess ate grapes or drank wine and I'm making a connection with that, or whatever, grapes make me feel important.

Hell, if you give me some slices of pepper jack cheese with it, I'd believe I'm Aphrodite.

Because I always have this notion when I eat grapes, and indeed, right now I'm eating grapes, I did this quick sketch.




If I get time I'll complete it into a full digital painting. (Don't I always say that? lol)

The idea here is that a girl is sitting on some trashcans in an alleyway, munching on grapes and lounging about amongst the garbage. Even though she's surrounded by waste, it doesn't matter, because she's eating grapes and it just makes her feel awesome and takes her away to an imaginary world where she is a queen.

I think it's a cute idea. XD

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Sketched in Seconds




Some sketches done in this morning's meeting. :) Hope you enjoy!

The first image is just a bunch of animals: rabbit, ferret, dog, cat.

The second image kind of reminded me of Wilma Flinstone, if she were more modern, lmao; it was inspired by a similar magazine cover that was floating on the table near me.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Silhouettes pt. 2

Now introducing the third OC of the story, meet our young sorceress' silhouette. :)

Yes she has bubblegum pink hair and yes I unnecessarily made her hair pink in this image as well. ♥


The character to the left is her as well, due to the climates of some areas and because of her quite recognizable appearance, she often travels in that layered cloak.

Her staff design is not decided upon yet and will take several design tests for me to fully decide. :) I may post all the designs here as well.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Logo

Though technically not part of Sketched in Seconds, I wanted to post my logo for tauremi.com / tauremi.blogspot separately here too for independent critics/viewing.

If I thought I respected font-makers before, I now respect them ten times as much, that was the most tedious *insert plentiful amounts of cursing* thing that I've had to do in a while. I've redone this font so many times I've lost count and it still isn't exactly where I want it but, meh. =_=;

Silhouettes

After about 20 gesture stick figures each, I finally decided on these poses for my two original characters.

Plan on doing a full line-up of all the characters in the story, so hope for that! :)

It may not come across as such right now, but these characters are fraternal twins, a boy and a girl.

Thanks to them, I really have to work on my character consistency so they look similar.

Anyway here they are (and the new Tauremi logo is also portrayed! :) )



I hope to get very good at drawing them and all the OCs of this story. :)

Both of these twins are martial arts specialists; it maybe hard to see but around the girl's hands are five-pronged bagh nakh, her main weapon. The boy's swords are considered "reversed" blades, the outer curved side is actually a wide-flattened blade that is used for stunning, the inner curved side is actually the real blade used to slice; he flips the blades in combat to suit his needs. Both weapon sets are made of high-carbon steel and were created specifically for each twin.