Warrior Design 3

I've taken another little break from posting I was busy setting up a new computer. I think the last post was an overreaction attempting to make her look more feminine. I look at it now and it just seems silly that her armor is so skin tight. The plating on her torso actually conforms to the shape of her breasts. That's a little too close to Batman nipples for my comfort. I mean seriously who would greenlight these? The jewels were an attempt to make a connection between her and the sword. Now as I look at it they seem superfluous. The conclusion I came to is that in both posts the "armor" fits so close to the skin that it doesn't feel like it provides protection. My solution is...............layers! So even though I went with less metal armor she still feels more protected to me. I think it's because the materials appear to be thicker and there's so much more layering. I'm sure she's wearing a bunch of chain mail under there too so she'll be fine. I like it.

Warrior Design 2

So right after I put up the last post a friend called me up and I had him take a look at it. I started talking about the character and he said something like, "Wait a minute. That's a girl!?" I then looked at it and said , "Wait a minute. That's not a girl!" If you've checked out previous posts you'll see I tend to add somewhat masculine features to many of the girls i draw. I have no idea why.

I forgot to mention in the last post that I purposefully bulked her up. I figure if she's really a warrior she should have a frame that's capable of swinging that big sword around. She should also have armor that's functional and it should look like it's actually protecting her. The problem is if I stick with this idea 100% I will get some one who is unidentifiable as a female which I don't want. So I don't want this but at the same time I don't want this and I certainly don't want this.

Anyway these pics were my attempt to make her more feminine. As you can see I couldn't figure out what to do with her hair.

Warrior Design

I'm really in the mood to make something lately and I'm thinking about working on a fight scene. I don't want to spend a bunch of time planning stuff out right now as I'm afraid it will kill the spontaneity and my desire to see this thing through. At the same time I want my character to look cool so I'll probably do a few passes on the design. Here's my first stab at something. I like the idea of a female warrior with a big sword (original I know). Her outfit's not working though. She looks like a female warrior going to the prom or something. Actually she looks a little like Chun Li yea?

After some frustration with working on the character I thought it might be fun to just jump to the sword. I'm pretty pleased with it. I like the idea of rounding the top off instead of giving it a point. I think it suggest that a sword this big would most likely be used for chopping and not stabbing. There's a jewel in the hilt hopefully that means there's going to be some Lion-O action going on.

Here I took another stab at the character. You can see i pretty much scrapped everything but the physique. This feels more like a step in the right direction. I like the idea of a light weight armor. I would still like to get more variety in materials. Maybe I can add more cloth and mix up the armor with some areas chain mail.

Man With Stick

Not much to say about this one. Here's a naked guy with a stick.

There's Nothing In My Hand

Here's a quick sketch for the night.

The Most Awkward Expression Ever!!

Man I have to start mixing things up or else I'll have nothing but a blog full of women with awkward smiles. This started out waaay different. This lady was happy, she had a pretty face, and a natural smile. I wasn't satisfied though and I kept tweaking it. Her expression became stranger and stranger until I gave up. Now that I'm looking at it with fresh eyes I almost like this better than what I had originally intended. I imagine now that she's looking up into the sky witnessing a first encounter with another life form. She's thinking to herself, "Stay optimistic they will bless us with new technology and knowledge of the cosmos." When really deep down inside she knows they're just warming up the space probe machines.

The Slightest Smirk

Branch and Leaf

I haven't painted in a little while so here's a little something. This is my first time using Gimp to paint so it took some time for me to find settings that I could work with. It was a slow awkward start but once I got in the grove there were no problems.

Don't Look Up!

This pretty much became a mixture of a cat and a snake. No forget that this pretty much became a picture of a large cat with a snake's head. I started out wanting to make this a mixture of creatures but then got lost in a number of the reference pictures I was looking at. Oh well it's still not shabby.

Rockabilly Man

I was inspired by this video I saw a couple of weeks ago. I was going to look into this and find out what exactly is going on with this rockabilly movement but I think I prefer not knowing.

Woman Undressing

In a way this is almost the opposite of yesterday's post. As simple as this looks it took a surprising amount of time to make. In the end I really like the idea I don't think I was entirely successful with the execution. I would have liked to come up with a more elegant solution for the arm tossing the bra. I'm really pleased with how well the shoes turned out though. Maybe one day I'll actually go back and do a cleaner version of this. It's screaming to be inked up.

She's Bad News

Is she from around here?

No.

Is that her bike parked out front?

Yes.

She won't cause any trouble will she?

She is trouble! She'll punch your girlfriend and spit in your drink. She's bad news.

For the full effect you should really be playing this song in the background.

The Young Priest

So I'm out of town this week visiting my folks but I brought my laptop and tablet with me so I'll still be posting. Man technology is great I still get giddy when I realize I can go anywhere in the world and as long as I bring my laptop I can do a graphic novel, make an album, or create an animated short. Am I going to do any of those things this week? No I'm on vacation!

Monster Co-worker

A Cat Man's Portrait

Looking back all the way to my youth I realized something. I like to draw cat people. I don't know why but I do. Check out this picture I made years ago in school.

Yea exactly a cat lady! What is a grown man doing drawing cat ladies and cat men? Well I can't do anything about that what's done is done.

Really Happy Really Running

Ok I feel horrible I've missed quite a few days but I'll make up for it. Here's a weird one today highly stylized with just a touch of reality. Nope never mind there's no reality it's just weird.

Get Your Foot Off My Face Bro!!

When a foot gets in your face it's time to fight back.

A Tree On a Hill

I really want to keep these daily sketches from becoming painting sessions. There's certainly nothing wrong with adding a little color now and then though. I decided to post both before and after because I really like the way it looks with just the line work.

Flyer

This is a really quick one. It's very simple I know but I'm probably not going to have time to get into something really cool tonight.

Loose Sketch

Here's a quick sketch right before dinner. Man I'm starving!