I guess I'm a fanatic

You know, versus a fan. Nerrrr...

I devoted one of the floppy sketchbooks I got for christmas to these fancharacters and their fanuniverse. It works very nicely actually. It's always packed with the right kind of inspiration.

Although there's also notes from that Da Vinci lecture thing I went to. But yeah besides that.

This is pretty much the whole thing so far. There are a shit ton of characters in this damn fanfiction.

Started with heads, of course. Interesting how I drew these, like, a week or two ago and I've already redesigned at least of of these guys. I wonder why they're all looking over their shoulders...?

Iona Sant, Mithos Fell, Rails Picco, Bryn Elles, Alyssa Staelen, Rector Ainsley, and Mithos Sergi

if you can't read my handwriting which is totally legit.

Staelen and Ainsley. Basically got obsessive over drawing them out of uniform. This makes them almost totally original, which is kind of exciting. CB

Srsly, Ainsley.

Actually got really big on drawing Staelen for a few pages. This is me trying to figure out how the lady's uniform works. I cover them up so much more than namco does... :/ pruuuuude

Mostly though I was drawing her because I wanted to draw dresses. DRESSES DRESSES. Despite being a soldier she still likes to dress up on her days off. c:

Nerrrr this one didn't scan so well. It's a good group page for the card-playing slacker quartet (idk, my characters always break apart into groups, my brain has a clique problem, does yours?).

The top one is Staelen again with Kates who I just learned I had already given a first name to which is Findlay which I like a lot more than Phil. Apparently they're a couple or something? Then Nate Rivers who I totally need to develop more. Then a dragon which is totally irrelevant here. And Staelen again with Sergi.

As their title may suggest, they don't strive to get promoted and they play cards mostly. Except Kates who really doesn't belong in this group but somehow fits. ramblerambleramble

Oh, more quartet. Apparently I do love them. Scribble of Sergi making fun of crippled Kates, which really is not nice, Staelen with her hair down, which also is not really nice (looking), and younger Sergi in a Legolas sort of costume wondering at what his job was before he was a soldier. He actually looks a bit like Ishmael... that's probably no good. Oh well.

Trying to develop Kates more, although I don't like these newer drawings as much as the first ones I did. I do like drawing their sortamedieval costumes, I must admit. Also he gets a Cooksey hat because I recently learned how to draw them (thanks to dinosaurs) and also they're badass.

Heeee little Sergis. Little Mithos and big sister who's name I wrote down here as Donaline but I don't think I like very much. And grown-up Sergis up at the top there.

Elder Sergi is much more of an achiever than younger is. They work at different ranches... where he is still the bottom of the Desian ladder and she is just below the top.

Fun fact: pretty much all the ladies in this dump were in the same pre-army group. I believe Mithos here is the only guy who's mentioned to also be part of said girl-power group. tee hee.

This image is irritatingly small for the number of people in it. :/

Top is younger Fell, who had a ponytail or something I guess. His dad tried to kill him. \o/

Then is still-under-construction Arianna Carnet, who was the head of that lady group I mentioned up there, picking on Sergi, who is kinda short. tee hee.

Then is scribbled shirtless kid Picco. Kidder.

And the first doodles of Kates, which I still like better. NERRR.

Picco page. I've recently been learning what a freakishly religious guy he is. Before hooking up with the army he wandered around in the desert enjoying a number of "visions" which were undoubtedly caused by the fact that he was wandering around in the desert, probably not eating and also bleeding from the ear.

Don't like that top bust there, though.

AAAAND let's end with something nice. Like Picco on a dragon.

Desians ride dragons. How can this not be exciting?

Well, I've successfully wasted away the morning and should probably go to lunch now. \o/

ART

So. Like. I could be working on my drawing homework. But. I'm not really feeling it. And, generally when I don't feel like doing homework, I WRITE A BLOG POST. \o/

Heeee~~ been drawing with pens, lately. I got a skinny one and now I'm ink-happy. CB

So I drew a page full of Seans moving without restricting myself with things like logic or physics (because that's pretty much the definition of easy drawing for me) and then inked a bunch of them. EXCITEMENT.

I think the city I drew for drawing class is going to be where Sean and Jim live. There's Sean jumping off a building with a lightsaber. Fuck. Yeah.

(Also, I was listening to Paper Planes)

That's not a scanner fuck up, that's the edge of the pages. :|

AND NOW FOR THE FANCHARACTERS

They won't leave me alone as of late. I really gotta do something with them. Maybe a comic. Somehow I think I can motivate myself better to drawing a comic than to writing a fic. Plus. It's more worthwhile.

Anyway, a page of Elles. Was inspired by listening to Flogging Molly, tee hee hee. The one at the top with the floppy hair is him when he was younger... like, thirty I think?... with his GIRLFRIEND. Who dumps him cuz he's a coward HA HA.

Still gotta work on drawing him properly.

Aaaand here's some first sketches of some characters. Carnet's the lady with the proportions that don't make sense because I can't draw women. She... in her preDesian days lead a gang-thing of half-elf ladies. The sketchychibi girlies on top are some of her ex-followers/fangirls.

And the dude at the bottom is a very very first sketch of her boyfriend, who's name is Ayres and who is not nearly as badass as Carnet is. He was not a gang leader. In fact, I'm not even sure he even ever lived with humans. Hang on. I'll check. Oh. Lawl. He's from the same half-elf town as Elles. He's also quite old. SO LIKE I WROTE DOWN HOW OLD EVERYONE WAS AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM DON'T LAUGH AT ME. I like making up half-elf ages because they can pretty much be whatever the fuck I want. :>

FFFF WAIT. THIS ISN'T ORIGINAL. THIS. THIS IS TRUE FANART.

(left to right, top to bottom is Rodyle, Kvar, Kvar, Pronyma, Magnius, Kvar again, Forcystus. I didn't invent them)

Gotta learn to draw the Grand Cardinals if I'm gonna make a comic about Desians. Kvar's become the most fun, although I'm still not quite happy. I'd think he'd be in it most, seeing as how all the main characters are from his ranch, but he... dies. :/ Dammit, Lloyd.

I guess Forcystus will do the most. His hair irritates me... i liked the drawing so much better without the hair. xD Annnnd yeah Rodyle and Magnius won't be in it much at all. Magnius dies elsewhere in the first chapter. Dunno bout Pronyma, but I RUHEALLY need to learn to draw her properly. ffffailboat.

Nrrr I still don't really feel like drawing. Nrgh. Ngh. Nugh. FFFF.

and now it's july

Yeah, well, the spire starts up again and I doodle less.
I guess I could put up some more old memes... we'll see I suppose.
Anyhoo, here's some fancharacter.

Picco. He's toned down SO MUCH since I first made him, mostly cuz I put him in a position of great responsibility and he couldn't be a goofball anymore. :>

"gentle wind, gather before me and transform into blades of air"

... that's picco again. :/

Aaaand here's Elles. He was originally the main character. He still does important things, buuut I wouldn't call him main anymore.

HE'S A LOSER I HATE HIM but I love to draw him 8D

So I was filling out this meme, and it said "draw your character doing something they'd never do".

Yeeeah desians don't like Lloyd.

Just a silly picture. :>

Elles and Picco are FANCHARACTERS from a tales of symphonia FANFICTION I still can't let go of. D: So, yeah, some of the ideas here and also Lloyd's face aren't mine.

*swoons*