sauce lineup

Uh, the file's name is "SOS Lineup". Sauce. Get it?

I might be jinxing myself by putting this here, seeing as how... any time I put a wip online, I never end up finishing it. BUT IT'S VERY CHARACTER-BASED and I want it here so I have an excuse to blab more. Also I'm tired of working on it now. Also I have also never made such progress on a lineup before so. CB

Anyway, main characters. Er. If Ishmael counts as a main character then Shaun might as well but I like Iggy a lot more than Shaun. So.

Holy shit they're all short. Left to right:

Ishmael: "Lackey". He's Jin's right-hand-bro and also occasionally they make out. He's twenty-three and five foot even (yes, he knows) and also eats people. He steals super powers by... eating pieces of people... although he usually just eats whatever dead bodies he can get a hold of which means they're ususally not super and he usually gets near-sightedness or irritability or something. Also he once ate his dad and this gave him super strength. \o/ He's intelligent, meaning he memorized the periodic table of elements and speaks four or so languages, and he's dumb, meaning he's been known to get into cars with strangers and not notice when people want to kill each other. He's the plan guy, not the idea guy.

Tee: "Asshole sidekick". Wanders around with Elli and Pippin helping them out sometimes but usually just sitting around whining or making fun of them. He's six foot and nineteen or so. He's blind but also sees the future, and is very very good at it. He can pretty much see whatever he wants, if he focuses right, although his future is based on choices and is very very changeable and not concrete at all. He's lazy and irritable and unfriendly, but he can be helpful and occasionally even give a shit. He's seen the end of the world four times.

Elli: "Hero". Drops out of high school to try and bring down terrorists with Pippin and Tee. He's sixteen and five nine and has a very noobish control of electricity. He has a pocket knife on a length of wire that he flings around to zap with. He's awkward and shy and has some self-esteem issues, but under all this he's actually quite a stubborn idealist. He's a closet pokemon fanatic.

Constantine: "Villain". An angry psychopathic pyromanic preteen. He's four ten or so and twelve or thirteen. He can light shit on fire with his fucking mind, which is filled with rage and he is slightly out of. He was kidnapped and "raised" quite poorly, by the way, which is the reasoning behind his unhappiness and interest in lighting people on fire. He was born in Quebec.

Pippin: "Loving sidekick". Elli's super duper bff and hater of Tee, third part of the main trio. Is five foot two and eighteen and super strong. Had a goofy mother who "trained" her to save the world since she was little. This means she is quite prepared to kick any villain ass that comes her way, although she tends to kick ass first and ask questions later, which nearly gets Elli killed before they become bffs. She's friendly and silly. Is a lesbian, was a cheerleader.

Jin: "Anti-hero". Terrorist leader and mega idealist like woah. She's five seven and is twenty five, I think. She heals quickly and from pretty much anything, which makes her rather tough to kill which has come in VERY handy. She's pretty single-minded and very good at convincing people to her side. She DID group pretty much every super powered bro in the country into one teamthing. A bit radical. Also a bit socially dumb. She gets ill REALLY easily.

I'm working on revamping this story, HOPEFULLY for the last time. You may notice I've given Jin a pronoun... if you care, her issues with gender are still there, but I won't be bringing them up much at all because... they've become totally irrelevant. Other things are I put Elli's mom in prison and finally abandoned Tee's haircut and inserted some logic into Iggy's existence.

We're getting there.

whips

So the due date kinda for the com design homework got pushed up from monday to friday. I should work on that.

On the other hand, I'm not happy with it and would probably be happier to NOT have it in that show at all, so maybe it'll be best to NOT turn in on time.

There is so much rage in my heart right now.

Regardless, I'm feeling what I pray is not sickness coming on and really really not up to homework and I've exhausted all my bookmarks. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.

These wips are probably the nicest looking things to ever grace this blog. :/

I've been doing a painter-y thing in photoshop for that com design project, so I figured I'd take another stab at that digital painting thing for myself. It's immediately easier in photoshop because I know photoshop, even though I know that it'd all look nicer in corel.

The thing about taking a stab at that digital painting thing is that I always lose interest/dislike the work/forget about it and they never get finished. IDK if that's where Killian is headed but it seems likely.

I was looking around and there really isn't enough of my Killian on the internets. I really do love working with him, even if he is totally a guilty pleasure character. His playlist is so powerful. I really can't do anything else when I listen to it but draw/write him.

He looks too clean.

Doodling around with Sovereign City in mind, I realize that I SUCK at this traditional super hero thing.

Honestly, I really just suck at drawing people wearing anything but a hoodie and jeans. Sigh.

He doesn't have a superhero or a regular name yet, and he looks too young here but I like to believe I have him down elsewhere. I like that the ears on his mask and his ears are the same. c:

HAVE TO STOP PUTTING UP NAMELESS CHARACTERS HERE I HAVE NOTHING TO TAG THEM AS. DERRRP.

This won't ever be finished and DA'd because I don't like it enough. I think my standards for DA have either greatly increased, or I just don't bother making nice things anymore. Regardless, this blog is certainly to blame.

I guess I can fill out that housing contract. That'll take up some time. Maybe even the hour I need that could be well spent on homework. c:

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/

That meme

I guess I'm never going to finish this

Seans and Slugs

Doing homework is for squares. Today I'm gonna write blog posts and deconstruct my New Moon lunchbox so I can put my color supplies in it. CB

Here's pieces of a Sean dump and pieces of a Slug dump.

Sean kind of made a name for himself in the killing business just by being an alien. Part alien admittedly, but still. I'm not sure how long he kept dressing like one yet.

...

what the hell is he holding...?

Realized the other day I've never drawn any of his siblings. They don't play much a part in his story but still. He's the youngest of, like, twelve or thirteen, btw.

Nerrrrr. Sometimes I just have to draw Sean being sad (aka younger) once so I can go back to drawing him being a dick. That's basically what this dump was. He looks so dumb with short hair.

See, doesn't he look so much better with that fluffy mess? c:

It's very important to Sean that you understand that he is half human.

Hi Slug. I see you have boobs thar. And bullet holes. Those too.

This is from a slightly older dump (can't remember if I did it at Ringling or at home...) in which I learned how to draw hoods. Considering this has been something that's troubled me since EVER, that's kind of a big deal.

Oh wait never mind

First off, let me just say that I am so excited I got all these pictures uploaded in the order I wanted on my first try.

Second off... yeah. A mere hours, HOURS, after saying "maybe not BA maybe" I finally found inspiration for Sovereign City.

See, I kept telling myself, "Mandi, if you're gonna be a masochist and join another damn OCT, join SC. You know/like the people running it and you'll have more fun with it". "But Mandi," I whined. "Who can I enter? I may have a story ABOUT superheroes, but they all have to much baggage to be any fun in an OCT!", to which I responded, "I don't know, Mandi, but I'm telling you you'll like this one more."

Anyway, then I stopped talking to myself and made a whole new character.

Her name is Astrid Stays and she doesn't have a superpower but she DOES have a baseball bat and fists and a love for JUSTICE.

Her superhero name is "The Slugger". Because she has a baseball bat. She didn't come up with it.

This is her semi in costume, btw. Apparently I'm going through an obsession with slicked back hair and facial injuries.

STINKY ICKY HOBO \o/

Because fighting crime doesn't pay! \o/

After giving up on trying to keep a paying job and a crime fighting hobby at the same time, she devoted all her time to her heroic antics. This means she is homeless and penniless.

She's a relatively unknown, small time hero... if she were more popular maybe she could sell lunch boxes and action figures but hey. She doesn't have time for that.

(I've always loved homeless super heroes, you guys. I have a whole story about them. I'm completely serious right now.)

Here she is in costume. Sorry. In "costume". Raincoats aren't really flattering to her figure, so she generally is taken as a dude. Actually, she's a hobo who doesn't have a figure, so she's generally taken as a dude when she's out of costume too.

... yes, I did intend for her to look more like a terrorist than a superhero. :]

She's been heroing for eleven years (or so; could change after the oct gets up more info) and may have had a better costume when she started out (she had a legit, paying job at that time).

My handwriting is like a secret code, but if you can crack it there's the end of a timeline in there too.

Seven years of sleeping on park benches may have made her a little bitter and unfriendly.

Eleven years head injuries may have made her a little nutty.

Over the years she's gradually become more Slug and less Astrid. She's become a lot less careful about keeping her secret identity secret, but since she's a small time hero and a nobody homeless citizen, this isn't really a big deal.

She's been recognized a couple times out of costume. Fortunately it's only been by people she's helped and not people she's gotten arrested so far.

If I do go through with this, it'll be the third character I've entered in an OCT with that same round face. THEY'RE EASIEST FOR ME, GUYS. 8|

I've never created a character FOR an OCT before. It's probably gonna break my heart when I change my mind AGAIN and decide not to enter, or don't get in, or do get in and lose, or even win the whole thing BECAUSE WHERE WILL SHE GO THEN?

Also, I've made a heterosexual female character and I should be proud, but I'm not because I intentionally made her look manish. Sigh.

On one final note, I'm gonna make a foreshadowing comment here and say that she's much more powerful than even SHE knows. 8]

These are the jokes

I mean the art.

"Ehh... he's good at smashing things...?"

"Nothing. He's an ass."

In other news, I'm FINALLY getting decent at drawing Jim. JESUS I STRUGGLED FOR A YEAR AND AN OCT AND I FINALLY GET IT DOWN IN A MEME WTH.

Ra ra ah ah ah roma roma ma ga ga oh la la

I like Nad because he brought plot to Sean's world and Lady GaGa to Sean's playlist. CB

"Wow, cool! I didn't think you'd actually LIVE through that!"

The words that founded the JimSean bromance. How sweet.

OH HI JEREMY.

I've been messing around trying to figure a good style to do comics for BA in. Should I actually do it. Which maybe I won't. Maybe.

So happy with that nose.