Two more sketches

Michael, who you already know...


And this girl, who you don't.

Troll Week, Day Six

Your name is ANKARII HENFRIK. Although you have fewer INTERESTS than your fellow trolls, you are EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD at the things you do.

Your interest lies in ARCHITECTURE. You love the look of a perfect HIVE and constantly strive to hone your STYLE and SKILL. Your obsession has had other benefits, and you've developed a taste for IMMACULATE STYLE and PERFECTION in general. You are the coolest of all your friends and are often forced to serve as an AUSPICTICE, whether you like it or not.

Your trolltag is fastidiousEngineer and to you, F O R M - I S - A S - N E C E S S A R Y - A S - F U N C T I O N.

<sub>(Hmm. I can't help but feel like I'm forgetting something important I wanted to say today...)


(Oh, yes, that was it. Thanks, Michael.)</sub>

He's Not a Villain

He's not actually wearing black, see, it's a really dark desaturated shade of olive. And the bandana is... too...

Okay yeah maybe he is.

More mysterious characters!

Less explanation!

Faraday Constant

Which means today's post is about Michael Faraday, except not the physicist!


But rather this Michael!

He is set to appear in Blur as his winged humanoid self. I was going to draw in the wings, but I ran out of ink to shade them. (Or... color them, I guess. They're black, which would have posed a bit of a problem.)

Well, maybe I'll put in the wings tomorrow. Or whenever find another pen.

Go Go Mike

This character--I mentioned him briefly once before; his name is Michael--is really hard for me to draw. It's the nose. I can't draw it well in any view that isn't head-on. So I've been practicing drawing him. This was my attempt for today.

Character Re-Design

Sorry for the late post! I underestimated my workload today.

All right, Guardian. I've talked about it before. It's one of the few series I've managed to draw full cast references for; "super" references are here, and their "secret identities" can be found here. If you can't tell who goes with who, they are lined up in the same order in each cast.

Got that? Good. Because now, I tell you I'm going to update all the references. Some of the characters will look different; others just get a bit of a style change. Tonight, I started with the third guy from the right--his name is Michael Faraday.


Michael's character concept can be described in a few words: "thin," "introverted," "old-fashioned," "striking." I wanted him to be attractive, but not in the gorgeous girly way or the jock way. It wasn't an easy task.

In the end, I turned to photographs for inspiration. This particular draft of Michael was modeled after Adrien Brody, who is not "good looking" by conventional terms but is still very striking. I'm not sure how well I got it, but you can see the resemblance in the nose, at least.