More Aliens

Ohhkay, alien dump coming right up.

Let's start out slow with some Seans and Jims. *cue appropriate music*

I still am not sure whether Jim or Sean is the main character. Maybe they both are. Maybe it depends on the person reading. Maybe I should finish writing the story before I start worrying about main characters.

Here's some figuring out sketches of Ondlae. It got me thinking more about how these aliens work in general.

So I drew some kid. He might be kid Ondlae, I'm not sure. Anyway, hnlue (that's them) are born with these tentacle things down their face and all over... but for centuries their custom has been to cut them off. It used to have tribal/societal meaning. Now it's more of a fashionable thing. Also hnlue are big on appearing as human as possible, so they usually get the face one's trimmed.

ramblerambleramble

Also an old daente.

OKAY ENOUGH OF THIS HOW ABOUT A NEW CHARACTER? C:

His name is Aien. That's pronounced like you're describing a guy named Ian. "A Ian". He's a full daente, like Sean would be if his mom were less of a slut, and hugely into gaining civil rights for him and his species.

Err basically a big issue with this universe is that its different species have begun to interact relatively recently, and the problem that pops has to do with determining which peoples should be included in the formation of government and which are too primitive to handle it. Daente are somewhere in between... that is, they're not full citizens (only seven or so species qualify as full citizens, btw), but they're certainly considered sentient and treated as people (albeit stupid ones) more often than as animals. They're making progress, though. It was very recently made illegal through most of the galaxy to eat daento babies. Apparently they're very delicious.

Anyway, daente for the most part are content to remain separate from foreign society, but Aien and his weirdo daento friends want to be CITIZENS. D:

Race will kind of be a big-ish point in this story.

BTW, Sean is not a full citizen, although he could test to become one thanks to his human half. He just doesn't want to.

BLAB BLAB BLAB here's Aien without a shirt on. His markings are extremely feminine, I want to change them. :I

AND SOME HEIGHT COMPARISONS. Daente are pretty small, and Aien's the smaller breed of small. He's somewhere around four foot on the right there. Next to him is a lady who's probably one of Sean's siblings... they're a different race than Aien is and are bigger (also colored differently but you can't tell here lololol). And on the right is Sean looking probably as tall as he ever will; he's half the taller daento, and half human, so he mostly just looks like a sortashort human. c:

Yeah, I got really into the height thing, so I drew the shortest character with the tallest. Lol Nad you're huge.

NRRGH OKAY that's enough rambling for tonight.

hurr aliens

Ohhh maaaan been character designing like a mofo the last week or two. Sean universe characters. I've said this before, but every time a new character enters this universe they develop the plot A LOT. Check it.

yeah this was on my DA, but in blogland it comes with more DESCRIPTION :D

Initially the story is "Sean and Jim and sci fi". Then Hrguay (fourth, the lady alien) appears and brings with her different groups/races/families that inhabit their planet. Then Nad (third, tall guy) pops up an suddenly this meaningless universe has a PLOT. Walker (fifth, the beard) comes in and helps me to figure out who/what exactly the antagonist of this story is (hint: it's not anyone in this picture). And finally Ondlae arrives just a few days ago, and now the story has an ending.

I estimate I've got three or four more characters to go before this story is totally developed. c:

SO ANYWAY left to right is

Sean, Jim Maeda, Nadra (Nad) Liin, Absalom Hrguay, Asimov Walker, Mue Ondlae.

They're all varying levels of a "main" cast. They definitely won't be all of it.

I'm extremely fond of Ondlae atm because he's newest.

So I drew him with one of his hos.

So Mue Ondlae. "may" "ond-lay", but he's pretty used to it being mispronounced "on-duh-lay".

He's a young and ruthless crime boss, the first one to appear in and heavily impact YS-11 (that's where this story happens, it's a moon) in, like, half a century. He's very much the typical "new money" type; he likes expensive and often tasteless things and places and women. When he's not throwing money away he likes plotting to take over the universe. \o/

Also, he and his ho represent the two main races of their species. The long-tentacled ones (ho) are generally upper class while the short -tentacled (Ondlae) are generally lower. It has to do with the longs taking over the shorts aaages ago back when they first started interacting with other planets. SO you can't blame Ondlae quite so much for wanting to show off his money. CB

I'll get up the drawings in my sketchbook soon, and blab about some other characters. However, it is now 2 am and i probably should go to sleep.

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.

The City

So I've actually kind of been working on this audition thing for Sovereign City. I know.

I don't know if anyone really reads this blog, but if you do I actually would like some feedback on this:

I actually have no idea what I'm doing with this style, but I'm enjoying it a lot. But is it confusing or eye-rape-ish? Does it offend? I'd like to do the whole tournament in this style, should I get in. Only hopefully better. You know.

(I'm holding off putting this on DA for now cuz I'm not sure if I'm totally done with it, lawlawlawl)

This'll be her ref pic. Still struggling with the colors. It's tough cuz, like, I'm not even gonna be using her colors, hahaha.

Again, if you're out there, what do you think? I hesitate to give her really bright colors, cuz then she looks less hoboish, but to much grey gets boring. I like a cool color scheme cuz it should make her look like a weakling. c:

Also that ratfaced guy is gonna be in it, as well. Be tee dubs.

Look, here they are together:

Wanted to see how they'd look together in black and white, also figured I should decide how tall they are. Slug's pretty average, Rat's kind of short.

His name is probably going to stay Ratfaced, because it just emphasizes how much he fails at english grammar (even though he actually isn't the one who came up with the name). He's a self-taught ninja and also smelly semi-literate immigrant. c:

Neither of them have superpowers. GOOOOO TEAM HANDICAP.

These are older doodles, but I actually have no decent Rats on the computer. :/ It's mostly right, just his costume's changed.

Rat is kind of a smartass, kind of a flit, kind of a cynic, kind of a goof, and a really bad teammate who will probably be abandoning Slug whenever the going gets tough. He had the Slug devotion once, but he sure doesn't anymore.

Hopefully there'll be a lot more of these two. Cuz I don't have a clue what to do with them outside of this tournament, hahahaha.

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: