I Think My "Deltoid" Fetish Is More of an "Arm" Fetish

The proof is in the loving detail put into Jake's arms.


If you're wondering why I'm drawing him so much, it's because I'm trying to make an "official" reference for him.

Starting tomorrow and ending with November, I won't be posting doodles. My energy will be focused on NaNoWriMo. You will, however, be able to read my NaNovel here! Goodie. I hope you all like it.

Quickie

Today, I drew Ayame and Takehito Wakamoto. They're both Medley characters I've mentioned before, and they should be famous characters of mine for being my favorite female and male characters, respectively.


I really like how Ayame came out. Takehito's a bit boring, but I haven't really drawn him in a while...

Cee Gee!

Doing stuff that wasn't drawing-related today so have that picture I put up here a couple of days ago. Except in color.

Sorry for the Lateness

I had another paper to write.

Here's a dude I painted in drawing class.

Another Drawing Class Dude

I didn't quite finish the background on this one before I thought the class ended. It's a long story.

And here I go through another art block ._.

An on-time update? Gasp!

I wanted to see how Jeff would look if I drew him in my normal style (as opposed to the ultra-simplified look he takes in Medley).


The answer: he looks about fourteen.

To the right is his hat-insignia. It's supposed to be a zombie done up like those universal signs, but it's a bit hard to tell.

Not much today

Bad headache and major paper due, so all I got done was a little drawing of Jeff's brother.


Dunno what he's leaning against, but he's leaning against something. This is sort of how I felt all day today.

I Still Don't Know What to Draw

So have this drawing... I was waiting until I went into the juicy details about NaNo 09's premise, but I'm not sure if I will.

On a bad day, our intrepid hero looks like this:


...Wait, what?

This happens to him all the time

Uninspired

Today I was kind of at a loss on what to post for my blog; hence, late post. Here are some paintings I did in Drawing 1. (Yes, paintings in drawing 1... I know it's silly)



If you have any suggestions as to what you want to see, a comment would be nice.

Poor Kid

I've already talked briefly about Kenneth, and I briefly mentioned he has "bad luck." But luck is such a relative thing. Is he unlucky compared to a lottery winner, or unlucky compared to a hobo?

Story time! Once in ninth grade, Kenneth was on a field trip with a teacher who particularly disliked him. He was sitting at the back of the bus, because that was the only available seat when he boarded. Then he started listening to some music, because he always did. It just so happened that so hooligans were also at the back of the bus, and one of them had brought vodka, and they were drinking it.

Eventually they started causing a commotion, like most drunks do, and the teacher came back... so they got rid of the bottle.


Sort of.

So when the teacher arrived, he saw this.


That's the kind of bad luck our hero has.

Today, an Anotomical/Color Study

Tomorrow, focus on the hero of NaNo 09.

The Lost Ones

I swear I'll start talking about NaNo 09 soon, but until then, have a couple of busts.


These two... they both exude an air of mysteriousness, no? You wonder who they are?

Well, sometimes, I write short pieces unrelated to anything else I've written to get inspiration flowing. Other times, I have a character with family members-as-backstory, and I decide to flesh these relatives out a little more to hopefully flesh the main characters out. These characters then usually die away. Somehow, I got particularly attached to these two, only though one was in a one and a half page murder mystery treatment and the other is a character's brother who is never mention, nor appears on-screen. One day, I'd like to write about them. Today is not that day, but I will talk about them.

The one on the left is Shane Kantz. He's an architect who's designed quite a few famous buildings in his universe, but he's pretty reclusive. No one really knows anything about his personal life, his inspiration, anything like that. Most people are quite surprised when he introduces himself. He seems pretty calm most of the time, but if the slightest thing goes wrong he'll melt down. One night, he takes a wrong turn and witnesses a murder--soon afterwards, it's pretty clear that someone is trying to murder him.

Jake Waters (right, of course) is the younger brother of Jeff Waters, cult film director. Despite being blond and having a confident smirk, he is a pretty cool guy who earned his way to a good life from day one. He owns a restaurant and bar that is most famous for being purportedly zombie-proof. Most nights, he can be found tending the bar, something he does with great flair. (Literally.) His cocktails have one a few awards, here and there, and right now Jake's pretty happy with his life. He's good at listening to people's problems, and he has lots of empathy to give, but he's pretty bad with words--probably the reason such a cool guy does not have girls falling over him.

Behind the Story

Not feeling particularly inspired, so why don't I post some conceptual pieces I did for NaNo 09?


I just drew these two guys one day to kill boredom--then I decided they were the same person. They later became Kenneth. And yes, this whole story would not exist if I had never drawn these two.


Character designs--it's interesting to note that all the girls in this picture were originally ideas for Scarlett, but they all sort of became separate characters. Also, Chase hasn't changed much since the original sketch, and Kenneth used to have absolutely no fashion sense.

A Finished Piece

Not feeling particularly inspired to draw tonight, so have a finished CG picture of Kenneth.



By the way, if you're wondering why I changed my color scheme, it was to match the NaNoWriMo button now in the sidebar. Go check it out.

Kenneth again

Sorry this post is late--stuff happened today.

As a result, all I got done was this CGed pic of Kenneth, and even that's not totally finished, but it's better than posting nothing.

The Friendly Ghost, Part 2

Meet Alistair. He's a ghost who died sometime around the turn of the 20th century. After he died, he woke up in the afterlife with little memory of his previous life--only his first name and the fact that he didn't have a jagged scar around his neck, and that he could speak in his previous life, but seemed to be unable to now.

He tried to fit into afterlife society and studied all kinds of specters and spirits, with hopes of one day returning to the world of the living and help combat EVIL. But time passes, and no opportunities come up.

Then, one day...


Not thinking about any of the consequences, he steps through the portal.

A few minutes later, Jack the Ripper walks past, completely unaware that a couple of stupid teens just tried to summon him to the mortal world and got some wussy dude instead.

The Friendly Ghost, Part 1

So, now that you've seen the relationship chart from two posts back, I hope you have some questions about the cast members of NaNo 09. Like "Who is the 'friendly ghost' off to one side that you failed to introduce? And why are Chase and that one guy not friends anymore (but used to be, and by the way I'm going to call that guy Brian from now on)?


Oh, it's not that long. Here, I'll summarize it with a few lines of text and crude drawings.

So one day, Chase was hanging out with Brian and Brian's girlfriend. The girlfriend was really into the occult, and eventually:


Chase, being a science nerd, thinks it's all blasphemous, but then Brian is like:


So Brian and his girlfriend get to discussing what exactly they're going to do in this seance, and then:


And then they go through with it, much to Chase's dismay. Fortunately, nothing happens, but Chase still decides that he needs new friends.

Sidetracked

Just some more Drawing 1 midterm stuff.




If you line them up side-by-side, they sort of connect.

Still Life MK II

And that's all I really had time for today. But tomorrow I'll tell you about NaNo 09's friendly ghost, I swear.

High School Drama

The second post for today is a character/relationship chart for NaNo 09, which needs an official title.


EXPLANATION:

• The words under or above the character portrait is a short description of the stereotype that fits them best.
• Words near the arrows describe the relationship between two characters.
• Arrows pointing both ways means that the feeling is mutual.
• Arrows with one point means that the person feels that way about the person the arrow is pointing to, OR is that thing to the person it is point to. So, Cute Asian-American is like a slave to Man-Libby, and Chase has a secret crush on Scarlett that is not mutual.
• Circles with dotted lines indicate characters that are in school clubs together, with their club on the circle's perimeter.

So that's it for--wait a minute, "friendly ghost?"

Major Crap

I broke schedule.

Dammit.

To make up for it, there will be two posts today.

The first one has... um.



...These two sketches I did for Drawing 1 Midterm.

Ensemble

Here's most of the school kids who don't like Kenneth!


You met Blonde yesterday. He still needs a name, as does everyone else in this picture.

The girl next to him is his girlfriend. She goes with the flow most of the time and can be pretty nice if you get her without Blonde, but with him she just sort of shuts up and looks pretty. She appears to be trying to do an ass grab in this picture due to poor layout planning; unfortunately for her, everyone's ass in my style is higher than on a normal human body so she's reaching for his thigh instead.

The girl next to these two is... well, we think she's friendly, but she also lacks anything resembling a spine so no one knows what her true personality is. She takes on characteristics of those around her, and she's usually around Blonde.

...I think I have just created a male Libby. Excuse me while I try to decide if that's a good thing or not.

NaNo 09 Stuff

Since I seem to be focusing on NaNoWriMo '09 character designs, let's at least name these characters so I don't have to keep calling them "our hero from x posts ago" or whatever.

Our intrepid hero is Kenneth.
The lovebirds from the post after that don't have names yet. They need them.
The kid after that with the acne is Chase.
Indie girl is Scarlett. She dyes her hair red to match her name.
Their powers combine to form Earth's greatest superhero, Captain Planet.
That's not right, at all. But these five form our core group.

Kenneth doesn't go around befriending and half-befriending everyone. Let's meet some people he doesn't befriend at all!

Now, I wanted to draw more for this post, but I didn't get to it. I have one drawing, but first, a commentary. I just noticed that in every story, I have a character who is highly privileged but squanders their benefits on silly things. Sometime before or during the story, however, they are suddenly torn from their lofty lifestyle. This is always accompanied by a Karmic Transformation. For a good part of the story, they must cope with both their physical and social changes, and they become a better person for their struggles (although they are still uncomfortable with the physical changes).

This character is always male and always blond.

While I try to figure out why I seem to hold some sort of bizarre grudge against blond men, here's a picture of this story's blond who is going to suffer for it.


He's a pretty bright kid (I just realized all the guys who fit into this stereotype are in some way), but he's also very socially savvy (As my tortured blonds usually are). He's learned that he doesn't really have to do any work to stay on top and frequently rubs this fact into everyone's face. His father is the Dean of Students, so it's pretty futile to call him out on anything assholey he does.

Chase, in particular, really can't stand him. Kenneth tries to befriend him, but it doesn't go very well.

Coupled with his hair color, he totally has it coming to him.

Wow, this is my 60th post

I'm pretty sure the NaNoWriMo idea I've been talking about for the past three days is the NaNoWriMo idea I'm going with now. So let's talk about more of our intrepid hero's friends!


This chick is pretentious and thinks she's totally cool and not mainstream at all. She probably listens to a bunch of indie bands you've never heard of and watches independent movies and reads weird and experimental books. What she doesn't realize is that this makes her like every teen trying to be cool and independent, thus making her totally mainstream. She's pretty nice if you can get her to put down her pretension shield.

She'll never admit to it, but she reads--and enjoys--the Twilight books.

Our hero half-befriends her, too.

I think I'm losing my ability to draw girls.

More New Characters

Another oddity our hero from two posts ago meets.


He doesn't talk much, just glares at people and makes snarky comments at the worst possible moment. Just be careful what you say near him--even if it doesn't look like it, he's always listening. Always.

Our hero fully befriends him due to some strange twist of fate.

Quickie

Two more characters from the story I spoke of yesterday.


They're deeply in High School Love, but they're both a little... odd, and we'll leave it at that for now. Our hero runs into and half befriends them both at the beginning of the story.

Another Quick Design

Sorry these have been coming so late recently; my sleeping schedule's been thrown off. We should be back to regular business sometime in the near future.


The hero of one of three different stories I'm throwing around in my head right now as contenders for my NaNoWriMo novel '09. He's a nice kid, if a little spacey. He has really bad luck and his family moves a lot, usually as a result of this luck. At the beginning of the story, his family just moved and he's hoping to make everything right this time--but since I can't write a story without some fantastic element, you know things are about to go really wrong.

Design

I was feeling pretty stressed tonight, so I turned to my usual stress relief method: watch something I like and draw a random picture.


He's no one in particular and rather androgynous for my current style, but I like him regardless.

Spore

Today, I played around with the Spore creature creator.

Here's something I did.

A redesign

All right, Maxwell. I've never posted his design here, have I? Here it is.


Now, his design is supposed to be steampunk-- intro to said genre can be found here. Okay, now, I felt like I was cheating the genre by giving him a denim jacket and a knit shirt, so I changed things up a little.


Sure, I'm sure they didn't have denim jeans in the Victorian period, but this is much closer to how I wanted him to look. Ignore the hair, though. That's not how I want his bangs to look... oh well, it's close enough?