YAY

aghblaghagh summer.

NO YOU GUYS. I'VE BEEN SO EXCITED TO SHOW YOU THIS.

THIS IS CALLED

THAT FANFIC THING THAT I COULD NEVER TURN ORIGINAL ONLY EXCEPT I FINALLY MADE IT ORIGINAL.

Basically inspired by watching a shit ton of avatar (the cartoon), some of egriz's art, and a world concept we came up with in game design club last year. It's, like fantasy victorian-y era religious-y tribal-y crap with people from the moon and crazy monsters and shit. And all these characters that I love. c:

YAY LOOK AT THEM IN UNIFORMS DESIGNED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE ME. Actually they're designed by me stealing uniforms from the civil war, and also WWI a bit, but it's still better than drawing Namco's.

Sant and Picco are actually pretty much the same now. They're still captains or something and they still are ambitions bitches or spacey religious weirdos, respectively.

The point of their nameless army group is to make a city for their fellow elfy people, basically. Except they're not really elves, they're moon people. eeeeeee.

Unifoooorms.

Basically one day I'm sitting around thinking about these characters in their setting at the time (which was more medieval high fantasy-y) and suddenly I'm like "wait, why don't I give them guns?". Yessss.

A bunch of (scribbly unrecognizable) Kates, because he's the one I test uniforms on. c: He's pretty much the same too except the story doesn't really arc the same way it used to so he becomes less pathetic and more important. Also his romance somehow gets weirder.

Fffffell that doctor kid.

I don't know why I'm constantly most proud of the medic's costume, but I guess I am.

Fell hasn't changed so much as he's gotten more refined. Er, he's more sarcastic, less mary sue ish, more homo, more of a badass, more opinionated, more flawed basically... but still the same cutesy nice guy at his core.

unf costumes

Ainsley's gone through the most changes, I think, because I really wanted to keep him in and I really wanted to keep the traitor thing part of his role, but the organizations that were really important to that in the fanstory were lost. ANYWAY what he ended up being was some heavily jedi-inspired warrior priest thing. They're important to the religion, but more important as war starters/enders and city controllers and political figures. Unfortunately for most of the characters in this story, they're on the other side of the plotconflict.

Uhh also fell is in here gaying things up.

Oh gosh look at that war paint.

Also some other character doodles.

I've been flipping out over this for, like, half of the summer, but haven't come up with anything really concrete to show for it. I really want to get these guys rolling. But for now, here's what I've been into when not drawing comics/doing homework/doing homework.

An interesting note: it seems that, despite my long time belief that my favorite stories take place in the modern, rl world, my two "main", favorite stories are in crazy, sci-fi fantasy worlds. That's probably for the best. Keeps me from drawing hoodies and jeans all the time. :D

Clothes

So then I was sitting in my basement and suddenly someone dressed in inspiration leapt from the ceiling and kicked me in the face, after which I drew lots of outfits.

There were a couple memes referenced.

Yeah, with these two. Tee hee inaccurate height difference.

Initially this started just with me trying to learn how to draw Sant's hips.

In their usual desian (c) namco game costumes.

So that Picco kid. He is from the desert so he tends to stick to that kind of theme. I think floppy and loose fitting things. The middle one is just supposed to be a formal version of his usual uniform, I don't think he'll actually ever wear cuz I don't think he gets promoted.

In other news I think I'm starting to understand his face. c:

So Sant. She's actually tougher to call than Picco or some of the other characters because she doesn't really have much connection to the region she's from. Women wear dresses in her world, but she tends toward the functional/manly because she's the ambitious man type. c: She also, as I learned while drawing, does not like to show much skin.

The right is the same formal uniform deal, except she WILL get to wear it someday.

Cold outfits. Shoulda just left it with their fuzzy uniform-coat things, like the doodle on the right, but tried for something different anyway. Picco does not understand cold.

PJs. They're both wearing pretty much the same thing except for the shirt difference. Man up, Picco.

And then IRL desians. c: Surfer dude beach bum Picco and librarian Sant? Okay.

Repost

So I have this ridiculous most likely unachievable goal of doing one digital painting every day all summer. I've been successful so far, but it's only been two days so.

Anyway, so I have this painting of Sant and since I wanted to ramble about it more I put it here. c:

I don't know that I've actually ever messed with her color scheme before. I'm not happy with it right now, actually, that green totally doesn't work with the blue. What I need to do is do a color drawing of everyone and see how they all look in uniform.

She looks totally Ion-ish. She DOES use light magic, so maybe that's okay. Christ, I bet she's blinding in white.

But anyway, I think I'm finally happy with her design. Finally christ on a fucking cracker.

Hm. Maybe I'll focus on this story in the paintings I do. Not exactly like drawing their comic, but maybe just painting characters and scenes. That sounds like a good idea, mandi.

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/