Fang Reading

So I finished it and just in time to not have to wait another week to work on it due to our vacation.

[WIP] Fang Reading - Half Done Shading

Probably could have posted some of this a long while ago, well I mean like a day or two ago, but here's some progress on Fang that I did. I wasn't able to do anything for a long while unfortunately because of school, but that's over now (for good, unless I want my masters). Anyway I'm trying something and I don't know what looks better:

Line work that is colored to match the object (that I probably need more practice with) or:

Line work that is all one uniform color.

EDIT: I think I got his legs looking better in the colored lineart one:

Gotta thank Uro for pointing out that area was wonky.

[WIP] Fang Reading - Clothing Colors

So, I've got a dilemma. I know what clothes I want on Fang, but I don't know the colors. I've got a few ideas, but I'm not sure for certain.

 These are the main ideas, I think I'm veering more towards the blues, but one I do that color scheme a lot and two I'm not sure if Fang is a cool color character. He is a huge fan of Kyte's football team, which is why I used the exact same blues as on Kyte, but again I'm not sure if I want to do it that way. It may be that a combo of the colors here is the best.

[WIP] Fang Reading - Base Colors

Took me like 30 mins and if I didn't complain about the other Fang drawing, I'd probably just add this version to the line art post like I did with Kyte. Oh well, it's in a separate post this time. It's my blog I can do what I want.

[WIP] Fang Reading - Base Lineart

Oi, so this one took me forever, sort of. So I've been working on this one since the 3rd, which is like 23 days ago, but this time it was less procrastination (well there was a little of it) and more school started. On the other hand, though, this only took about 2.5 hrs to get to this point and honestly, I'm thinking Fang looks pretty good right now.

Of course, if you actually were paying attention to me and my posts, you might notice there's about a week missing between me finishing Kyte and when I said I started this drawing. Well . . , that's because this is the second attempt at this drawing. After 8 hrs of work, I got frustrated and gave up. I hope you can see why.

I hate this, it looks like crap. I am so glad that the redraw came out so well with such limited effort.

Striker Kyte

So in total this took about 12 hrs, which is a lot longer than what I did with Roxas. Then again, this is probably technically more difficult than that one and the BG certainly was more difficult, since I mistakenly thought I could do it without planning it out, it took me about 3 hr 30 mins to draw the BG then another hour to do all the shading.

[WIP] Striker Kyte - Base Background

So, I want to finish this background, but right now I am killing my back, so I need to take a break. Really I just need draw in some bleachers and fill them in, so it won't be too hard, in theory. I'm also still unsure what I want to do with my backgrounds, hence why like every piece I've been doing has a different one. I'm liking this one so far, so that's good.

Also the brands back there are Paragon System and Dragon Industries, both of which are important in different stories, in their own way. (The world building opportunities of these kind of backgrounds is one of the things I like about them.)

Oh boy, here's an edit that's not getting me any closer to finishing this drawing. Gosh, I just cannot figure out what I want to do with this damn background. I mean the bleachers with the first version I think were f'ed up due to perspective issues and Kyte being too close to the edge. I haven't tried to draw them yet on this one, but hopefully this'll work.

Also, you'll notice if you flash between these two versions, the color in his hair changes some. Yeah, that was a bit of a glitch where I didn't realize his hair was linked to a layer I was resizing while the hair layer was hidden. So I turned the colors back on and found he had transparent hair and that there was a smaller mass of black hanging out off to the side of his head and I had to recolor it in.

Last update for this one. It took me for-fucking-ever to get a background behind the banners that I liked, but I think I finally did it.

[WIP] Striker Kyte - Clothing Base

Well his base colors are almost done, but I need to first come up with some logos, since real football jerseys are covered in them. I need the club logo, the logo for the clothing brand, and a logo that would be advertised front and center. But I unfortunately, don't have any ideas, so I guess I need to sleep on it. He's also finally chasing after a ball.

And now for a small update with the branding on his uniform. He's part of the City of Llords F.C. though most people know them as The Lords with an extra "l" optional. And their team is sponsored by Chase Automotive, and their kit is provided by Victory Athletics. I think kit is the right word, it kept popping up in my research. I also moved the ball a little closer.

Bonus points to anyone who gets the joke behind the sponsor's name.

[WIP] Striker Kyte - Base Lineart and Colors

Unfortunately, this one took me about 5 hrs to do instead of the 4 hrs Roxas did, but I am happy with how it's turned out. Hopefully, all the other stuff will go faster and I'll end up getting Kyte done faster. He's running after a football by the way (as in a soccer ball), I just haven't drawn that yet. Will probably include that when I do his clothes.

And an update for today with some color. Don't have anything else to add comment wise, though.

Roxas Concept

It took me about 7.5 hrs to do it, but I finished the Roxas concept. I'm sure I could have done it faster if I wasn't doing a bunch of stuff I've never done before. Like the posing, the african wild dog fur patterns, the upside down shirt. I'll keep practicing so that I can speed the process up, since I'm hoping to get into a good position to do commissions.

[WIP] Roxas Concept - Base Colors

Got Roxas colored, and Rem thinks he's cute, which is good because I've never done a wild dog pattern before and boy are they busy. Overall, this took me about an hour to do, but it probably would have gone faster if I wasn't designing the character at the same time, or if he had less complicated patterns.

Figured I'd add this to this one instead of making a new post, but a few hours after this one was done I finished his clothes. All in all, it took me about an hour and a half to get from the first one to this next one.

[WIP] Roxas Concept - Base Lineart

Well it's official, I can do an entire drawing (minus clothing, which is generally easier) in one day. I timed myself on this one, and minus the procrastination it took me 4 hrs. It would have been shorter but there were a few things that caught me up like his butt and especially the hand he's handstanding on; that took me like 45 min. I'm pretty sure hands and feet are the one thing that keeps me from drawing consistently.

Anyway, this is a character design for Remmy of his new character Roxas. He will be an otter / african wild dog hybrid; hence the large satellite ears and less rounded head. He is also a freestyle dancer, in case you were wondering why he was doing a handstand. I might go and make his tail shorter and fluffier now that I think about it, but we'll see.

Theolis with Magic and Stuff

Well it's done, or at least I feel it is. I'm sure there's about a million different things you could come up with to improve on the drawing, but I like it the way it is.

Although, I also really like this little bonus version, with Theo's shirt off. Still very much finding his body . . , uh we'll say well drawn. Obviously, I didn't feel like shading all of Theolis' body so I removed all the shading from this one.

Also, I pretty much have no idea what to title this. I'm about to just call it Theolis vs A Robot Bug Monster.

[WIP] Theolis - Background Base

Took me awhile to figure out that grass, but I think I finally got it to something I like. I actually had to make my own brush for it (which is something I probably should have been doing for foliage ages ago, considering the difficulty I went through inking foliage in that picture of Robbie with the airship wreck, ugh).

Now I just need to shade; I think I'll keep it simple with some simple cel shading and maybe some color correction. I don't know for certain yet. We'll see how it turns out.

[WIP] Theolis - Foreground Base

So I've gotten this far, now I need to decide on a background. I know I want to do something minimalist, but I don't know what that would be. I also have to decide how I want to shade this. Though, I'm leaning towards minimalistic as well.

[WIP] Theolis - Finished Base

Well Theolis is now fully clothed and ready for battle at that. The only part I'm not too happy with are his swords, but I'm liking everything else. (And I don't dislike the swords that much.) Now I just need a monster to electrocute and some lightning for Theolis to fire, then maybe some shading and some light background. I definitely don't want to do a full background.

[WIP] Theolis - Base Colors and Some Pants

Oh my gosh, I am really loving how this is turning out. I haven't felt this way in ages about a drawing. I almost don't want to add anything else now, that Theo's wearing jeans (I just love the body I did, it came out so good looking). I might just have to make two versions.

[WIP] Theolis - Roughs and Outline

I'm trying to get back into the game and this is what I've been doing, well did today . . , well some of it I did today. The rest of it I did like two or three weeks ago, but all the black lines are today at least.

Update: Because I didn't want to do a whole post for some hands, feet, and part of a head, here's the final non-clothed sketch.

Obviously, I'm going to do some clothing, some swords, a lightning bolt, and a monster probably. Admittedly, that got less obvious as it went along.

A Bunch of Work Doodles

So following my uploading my doodles from work I decided to actually be productive on breaks for awhile and doodle headshots of guys who haven't been drawn before. Or at least haven't been drawn in a long while and needed a design update, in some cases.

 

This first set has effectively Kiff's friends. The top is the rottweiler Fang Torak and the bottom are teen and adult versions of Van Holtz who is a fox and gets the honor of being a main character in one of my stories.

 

This next set are the backup players in Theolis' clan. They make up the rest of Clan Wolfpaw at the start, alongside Theolis, Xano, Toran, Sarah, and Baither. In order, they are the lion Giovanni Desto, the otter/tiger Ty Monroe, the black wolf Adam Sage, the wolverine/panther Jeff Briggs, and the chocolate lab Maria Chara.

And finally, there's Trevor Wolfpaw, who is probably Theolis' cousin. They're not 100% sure on the actual connection and neither am I, but I think they share a great grandfather. I'd add more info on all these guys but I'm sure if someone was really curious they'd just ask me directly since it's not like I have any real followers.

V/B-Day Gift

I actually finished this a bit ago, but forgot to add it here. I'm kind of mixed on how it turned out and it definitely took too long to actually finish it.

[WIP] V/B-Day Gift - Base Colors

Finally, got around to finishing the drawing portion of this piece, which was long over due, but at least once it's done I can immediately put color to it. I'm not used to drawing skinny guys or odd leg angles so this was a bit of a tough one, but I think it came out okay.

Best of Work Doodles

So considering these were drawn at work (I mean totally not drawn at work; I was working at work after all) and photographed with two different phones, one which had issues with blur on the camera and therefore are fairly low quality, these are mostly for my benefit. Still some are decent enough, and neat designs, so here's a bunch of doodles. I think the earliest some of these were drawn was maybe a year or two ago.

So first off, we have some summon spirit design ideas.

 

First is an idea for Leviathan that I think dates from around the time I was trying to model him. The next one is Volk the guardian spirit of the moon, who was drawn way early. I think he is my earliest doodle. In the bottom left are Quetzalcoatl the spirit of air and Tesla the spirit of electricity; they were drawn fairly recently. And finally, there's Nabta Playa, which is the spirit of space. It's hard to see what it is, but Nabta Playa is supposed to be a bunch of rocks floating around a central rock, all with varying designs on them held together in a disk of stars.

I also drew some monster designs, before we get to what I think people like more (characters).

These were drawn around the same time, maybe a month ago. The first set are monsters from around my main town, Sieros. The other are a bunch of invertebrates, including a planarian and a nudibranch. Though, the amorphous blob in the bottom right corner is nothing but a failed drawing.

Now for some drawings of my main crew. You know the guys I draw a lot and have a set of headshots of.

  

First, there's an old doodle of a grumpy Sakura.And then, there are two different designs for Toran, which are kind of on opposite sides of his tiger dog-ness and what I believe his normal design is. Also, I think this includes the only drawing of him wearing his glasses instead of contacts.

 

And now for Theolis, who gets three things, which is totally surprising I know. The first one is sort of an idea of what his were form's body would look like and the next two are just normal Theo. The bottom one was drawn more recently; I like this one, cause it's kind of cute.

And now for some characters who haven't been ever drawn, or were redesigned. Also Remmy's character, Nick, cause he fits in this group, due to reasons.

 

  

First, we have some randomly grouped characters. The human is Rita Harrison, a character from Robbie's story. She's a shy fanfiction writer and artist who enjoys anime, especially a magical girl show that's like Sailor Moon and has a reputation in my world like the current My Little Pony cartoon. Then we have Mani Prakash the tiger ferret, he's a dorky overenthusiastic archaeology student from Theolis' second story. On the bottom left is the brother of JD from Robbie's story; his name is Derek Deen and he's a keyboardist in a band who's lead singer is his boyfriend Domitri (one of Rem's characters). Finally, we have my most recent doodle, Colin Gainsley, my rottweiler, Fang's, boyfriend/husband.

 

 

Here we have two consecutive picks of Nick. The guy next to him in the second doodle is Jet Keats, an otter kangaroo from Rubicam (my world's Australia) and Nick's best friend. They met on the first day of school after they had moved from their home country, which in Nick's case is Llords (my world's England), so they hit it off pretty well. Below them is Titus Hind; he joins up with Nick and his friends when they first start up Clan Onyx and eventually becomes Nick's boyfriend and his husband. He's a german shepherd, by the way.

 

Finally, we have Theolis and Kiff's kids. The guy on the left is the older brother Chase with Kaden on the right. Chase is the more responsible one taking more off of Kiff while Kaden more takes after Theolis and probably a little bit of Xano.